A NORTHUMBERLAND restaurant featured on a Gordon Ramsay programme.
Restaurant Pine, from Vallum Farm, took centre stage on April 27 at 9pm.
BBC One featured episode five of Future Food Stars, where team Pine helped multi-Michelin starred chef, restaurateur, broadcaster and writer Gordon Ramsay, whittle down the remaining contestants as he searched for his next business partner.
Each week, Gordon sets his contestants a series of intense challenges designed to test their character and showcase their business skills as he makes up his mind about who he will invest in and help take their business to the next level.
Gordon and the contenders travelled to the Lake District in episode five, to test how well they can turn humble ingredients into a profit.
In the Cumbrian countryside, Gordon met up with Cal Byerley, chef patron of Northumberland’s Michelin-starred Restaurant Pine, as he demonstrated his pastry skills with his signature pine-infused mille-feuille.
To be able to replicate the dessert, the budding entrepreneurs were tasked with climbing 40-foot-tall trees to gather 100 pine needles and 25 perfect pine cones in just 20 minutes, and then infuse these key ingredients into their mille-feuilles.
Restaurant Pine was announced as one of the winners of GQ Magazine's Food and Drink Awards 2023.
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