EXCLUSIVE Head chef at 'Britain's best restaurant' reveals why she listens to customer criticism, where SHE likes to eat out - and how to make Michelin-starred chips Northcote is rated the best in the UK by Tripadvisor's Travellers' Choice awards Head chef Lisa Goodwin-Allen talks food and eating out with MailOnline READ MORE: My mission to see if the 'world's best hotel' lives up to the hype By TED THORNHILL, MAILONLINE TRAVEL EDITOR Published: 12:25 GMT, 29 November 2024 | Updated: 12:33 GMT, 29 November 2024 e-mail View comments Michelin-starred Northcote restaurant in Lancashire has been rated the best in the UK by Tripadvisor 's Travellers' Choice Best of the Best Restaurants awards . I paid the restaurant a visit – full review to come – to see if it lived up to the hype. And while there discovered that head chef Lisa Goodwin-Allen makes possibly the best chips you'll ever eat.
They're pillowy-soft on the inside and crispy on the outside. They even impressed my hard-to-impress French partner. What's the secret? Lisa was kind enough to divulge some of the steps she takes to make them when I chatted with her about her remarkable success.
The first step? A decent spud. Lisa said: 'We get the right potato for a start. 'You need a chipping potato [Maris Piper and King Edward potatoes, for example] and then we cook them in salted water and then fluff them like a roast potato.
'That involves putting them in a pan or colander and shaking them so they go fluffy on the outside.
