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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Latest Competition News

20th Oct 2025

Entries open for 2026 edition of The Roux Scholarship

By: Edward Waddell
This year’s competition also sees two chefs join the judging panel Lisa Goodwin-Allen of Northcote and Roux Scholar 2011 Mark Birchall. Entrants have until 11.59pm on Monday 19th January 2026 to

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