Enter

How to Enter

Follow the links (with the pictures) below to enter the category of your choice.

Junior Chef category: send us your recipe for your main course dish, including the full method.  Photographs of your completed dish are optional.

All other categories: Send us your recipes for your two-course menu incorporating the compulsory ingredients, accompanied by seasonal and locally sourced ingredients where possible.  All entries must include the full method for your recipes and photographs of each dish entered.

For more details about the entry criteria and the compulsory ingredients for each category, please visit our competition page

Entry closing dates:

Entries for the Professional, Young Professional, Student/Apprentice and Home Cook categories will close at midnight on Wednesday 26th July 2023.  If you would like to receive the brief for your category as soon as it is published, click here to send us your email address.

Entries for the Junior Chef category (aged 11-16) have closed for 2023

Professional Chef

Any age and working as a sous chef/pastry chef or above.
Sponsored by Ritter Courivaud and Ritter Fresh

Entries close at midnight on Wednesday 26th July 2023

Young Professional Chef

Aged 19-24, working in any role in the kitchen up to and including junior sous chef.
Sponsored by Essential Cuisine

Entries close at midnight on Wednesday 26th July 2023

Student/Apprentice Chef

Aged 16-19 and a student at college or in an apprenticeship.
Sponsored by Nisbets

Entries close at midnight on Wednesday 26th July 2023

Home Cook

Aged 16+ and never having worked or trained in the catering industry.

Entries close at midnight on Wednesday 26th July 2023

Junior Chef

Aged 11-16 and still at school.

Entries are now closed for 2023