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:

Latest Competition News

06th Nov 2024

The 2025 Roux Scholarship opens for entries

By: Edward Waddell
UK-resident chefs, aged 22-29, are invited to create their own recipe using a range of ingredients as their first step to a potentially ‘life-changing’ experience. Entrants have until midnight on

More Competitions News

16th Dec 2020
Young Chef Young Waiter announces finalists
The 16 UK finalists and nine China/South East Asian finalists were selected by UK head judge Theo Randall, UK head waiter...
10th Dec 2020
Register to watch the Graduate Awards 2020 presentation
On 8 December 12 young chefs completed the final exam in kitchen or pastry at the University of West London. The competition...
09th Nov 2020
Wales to host Worldchefs Global Chefs Challenge
The Culinary Association of Wales (CAW) and its partners, the International Convention Centre Wales (ICC Wales), the Celtic...
04th Nov 2020
Student Watercress Challenge announces winner
The competition aimed to engage students with their lecturers to have fun with watercress and to ‘inspire’ their culinary...
03rd Nov 2020
British Student Culinary Championships reveals award winners
The cooking competition took place on 27 October 2020 and aimed to give young chefs a taste of competition experience. There...
03rd Nov 2020
Compass announces Chef of the Year winner
Operating in a Covid-19 safe format chefs from across the business pitted their skills against one another at West Herts...
28th Oct 2020
Inspiring Culinary Generations competition extends deadline for entries
The cooking competition offers the chance for non-professional chefs to gain recognition for their cooking ability. The...
22nd Oct 2020
Skills for Chefs Watercress Challenge announces winner
His dish of roasted lamb rump, slow cooked lamb shoulder, watercress crumb, watercress puree, warm potato salad, roasted...
19th Oct 2020
British Student Culinary Championships extends deadline for entries
The online cooking competition will take place on 27 October and it aims to give student chefs a first taste of competition...
07th Oct 2020
Twelve chefs heading to Graduate Awards 2020 final
The kitchen heat recently took place at the Royal Garden Hotel in London with the pastry heat being completed at Lakefield...