She also worked at Le Champignon Sauvage in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, which resulted in her being given a full-time position upon completing her college course.

[3] After a year at the restaurant she felt that she wanted to return home to the north of England and found employment at Northcote under Nigel Haworth as a demi chef de partie in 2001, at the age of 20.

[4] In 2018 she successfully retained the Michelin star at Northcote that had been held by Haworth since 1996,[4] as he moved on to be chef ambassador of the restaurant.

[3] She competed in the fifth season of the BBC cooking show Great British Menu in 2010 in the north-west section of the competition.

[13] In The Christmas Great British Menu 2020 she won three of the six courses that made it to the final banquet that was served to NHS and key workers in thanks for their work during the COVID-19 pandemic.