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.

 

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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

22nd Jun 2013
First National Chef and Young National Chef of the Year finalists announced
Winner of the National Chef of the Year semi-final was Andrew Wright, junior sous chef at Mallory Court Hotel in Warwickshire...
10th Jun 2013
Graduate Awards 2013 chef candidates announced for regional heats
After receiving a record number of entries to this year’s prestigious event, a select few young chefs have now been chosen to...
10th Jun 2013
Eleven talented chefs are gearing up for the 2013 Young National Chef of the Year semi-finals
For the first time in its four year history, the YNCOTY organised by the Craft Guild of Chefs, in partnership with Unilever...
23rd May 2013
Westminster Kingsway College student chef wins 2013 Major Series and Culinary Challenge
Westminster Kingsway College student chef Megan O’Mahoney was acclaimed the winner of the Major Series title along with £500...
23rd May 2013
Young National Chef of the Year 2012 winner prepares for a gourmet adventure
The trip, which takes place from April 29-30, is part of the winner’s prize package provided by competition sponsors...
23rd May 2013
The Craft Guild of Chefs’ Graduate Awards 2013 open up more opportunities for young chefs
Now in its second decade, these awards offer working chefs under the age of 23 the chance to prove they really are at the...
23rd May 2013
Wessex Salon Culinaire 2013 attracts record number of entries from chefs across the UK
More than 80 gold medals were won and almost 150 silver medals were presented at the event that ran from April 3-4, and once...
21st May 2013
The Craft Guild of Chefs calls for entries for the 2013 Winnie Myers and Artur Voggenberger teatime challenges
The organisers now want to hear from student chefs, working chefs and waiters aged 25 or under by August 1, who think they...
21st May 2013
2007 Competition Finalists and Winner
In front of a live audience, 8 young chefs battled it out, recreating their three course menu in just two hours.The 2007...
21st May 2013
Roll of Honour
2003 Eddie Rains - Castle Hotel Hereford2004 Mark Dixon - Imperial Hotel Great Yarmouth2005 Sophie Wright - Westminster...