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

21st 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...
21st May 2013
Five young chefs pass the Craft Guild of Chefs 2012 Graduate Awards exams
Coming through with flying colours this year were: Rebecca Reeves from the House of Commons, Ben Champkin from The Elephant...
21st May 2013
FutureChef 2007
Beating off competition from more than 7,000 other young hopefuls, the aspiring chef cooked her way through local heats...
21st May 2013
Final heat of Major Series gives gold to WKC student chefs
The competition, organised by Major International and the Craft Guild of Chefs, took place at Westminster Kingsway College...
21st May 2013
Twelve budding chefs set to cook up a storm
Twelve Regional Finalists, chosen from over 7,000 contenders nationwide, will battle it out on Monday 17th March 2008 at the...
21st May 2013
FutureChef champion announced
Following a round of local and regional finals, in which more than 7,000 students aged 12-16 participated, the twelve...
21st May 2013
FutureChef 2009 gets underway
The challenge, now in its 9th year, is a nationally acclaimed cookery competition for students aged between 13 and 16...
21st May 2013
North West student crowned FutureChef 2010 winner
Schoolgirl Johansen, who works with Sodexo on match days at Everton Football Club, beat off stiff competition and impressed a...
21st May 2013
Devon chef Dez Turland is crowned the Vive le Cheese and the Craft Guild of Chefs French cheese recipe champion
The contest, open to all UK professional chefs across the country, was aimed at finding the best recipe using French cheese...
21st May 2013
Craft Guild's Culinary Academy does Britain proud at the Villeroy & Boch Culinary World Cup
Team manager Fergus Martin, who won a silver medal, said they were chuffed to bits to come home with such an impressive haul...