We have had some fabulous guest chefs at the Bishop Auckland Food Festival and, in 2019 at Seaham Food Festival too. We work hard to make sure that each guest gives us a little inspiration for home cooking and it also gives you, our visitors, the chance to meet some of your favourite TV chefs and personalities.

Over the years, our famous chefs have included Rosemary Shrager, ITV This Morning’s Phil Vickery, Masterchef’s Greg Wallace and John Torode, Great British Bake Off winner Candice Brown and many, many more. 

During lockdown, it seems to have been the new normal to watch lots of celebrities take to Instagram and Facebook with their videos, top tips and recipes. As part of our plans, we have been in touch with a few friends of the Food Festival and chatted to some fantastic TV chefs, who have been brilliant through lockdown, to bring you some of their Christmas dishes. 

They have put on their festive outfits and put up decorations to bring you their favourite Christmas recipes. We have a great mix of savoury and sweet dishes from our celebrity chefs to tempt any taste buds. We will be getting our ‘bake on’ with some Great British Bake Off contestants, as well as planning for Christmas dinner with some great TV favourite chefs.

We will be sharing videos so you can cook and bake along with their recipes and method on the website and have a go yourself.  There will even be some great recipes for the children to try and we hope the whole family will enjoy them. More guests will be announced over the coming weeks.