Welcome to Competitions

The Craft Guild of Chefs is proud to celebrate with them.

Here you will find everything you need to know about the various culinary competitions that take place throughout the year - everything from the flagship National Chef of the Year contest through to the specialist Tilda Chef of the Year Competition.

This section will reveal where each is taking place, how you can get involved and those all important winners and runners up.

 

Current competitions:

Previous competitions:

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08th Jun 2022
Compass crowns 2022 Apprentice Chef of the Year
Eight Compass apprentice chefs battled it out at the annual Compass Chef of the Year culinary final, held at the Compass...
06th Jun 2022
HRC to return to ExCeL London in 2023
The International Salon Culinaire is the UK’s largest programme of culinary competitions with hundreds of different events...
26th May 2022
S.Pellegrino announces ‘stellar’ Jury line-up for competition
Sally Abe, Lisa Goodwin Allen, Jason Atherton, Claude Bosi, Sat Bains, Skye Gyngell and Francesco Mazzei have all come on...
25th May 2022
Former YNCOTY finalist prepares to compete on global stage
Harry was third in the Craft Guild of Chefs Young National Chef of the Year final in 2020 and was runner up in the Junior...
24th May 2022
Craft Guild entices chefs to enter National Chef of the Year competition
It has also allowed more chefs the opportunity to enter the UK’s most prestigious culinary competition by extending its...
18th May 2022
Chef plans to cut honeymoon short to cook for Wales in Abu Dhabi final
Sam has been encouraged by his fiancée Bryony Holmes, whom he is to wed on 23 May, to compete in Global Chefs Challenge Final...
17th May 2022
Craft Guild of Chefs reveals 37 semi-finalists for Graduate Awards
In a bid to achieve the pass mark in the 20th year of the event, chefs will be using a range of inspiring mentoring videos...
16th May 2022
City College Norwich wins A Passion to Inspire competition
The winners Drew Denington, Josh Amos-Terzza (Kitchen) and Jasmin Boughen (FOH) as well as lecturer Paul Smith will now be...
03rd May 2022
Toque d’Or competition announces three winners
The grand finals celebration, with the theme balanced diets and sustainable futures, consisted of a week of challenges where...
29th Apr 2022
A Passion To Inspire announces seven finalists for competition final
The Passion To Inspire competition will take place on 10 May 2022 at West Suffolk College, Bury St Edmunds. Colleges...