Scotch egg

• The Hunter's Moon is the Scotch Egg Challenge winner for 2022

  

  The Scotch Egg Challenge returned after a two-year absence this week, with this year's competition taking place at The Guinea Grill in Mayfair. The judges themselves were challenged with eating and judging 17 eggs(!) in total in order to pick the 2022 winner.

  And at the end of it all, Oliver Marlowe & Hugh Beatson-Hird from Fulham pub The Hunter’s Moon came up top. The

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• The Scotch Egg Challenge is back for 2022

  

  Updated 31/5/22 with list of competitors

  It's been three long years since we last had the pleasure of a Scotch Egg Challenge but the much fought over title is back after a pandemic lull. Now retitled the Guinea Grill Scotch Egg Challenge, and hosted at The Guinea 23 in Mayfair (opposite the pub) this will be the contest's 10th anniversary. And they've brought in a top line-up of chefs and judges to up the

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• Where to find London's best scotch eggs

  They're the perfect bar snacks and healthy competition has kept London's restaurants keeping up their A-game for serving the best scotch eggs.

• Smoking Goat wins the 2019 Young's Scotch Egg Challenge

  

  Many, many eggs were judged - but only a few could be winners. Here's what happened at the 2019 Scotch Egg Challenge.

• The Scotch Egg Challenge 2019 shortlist is revealed

  

  The Scotch Egg Challenge has become one of the highlights of London's food calendar. If you've somehow been unaware of it until now, let us educate you. Essentially, it sees some of London's top chefs descend on a pub for one night to produce what can be argued are the very best scotch eggs in London. These are all put to a jury who decide upon who to give one of London's most sought-afterawards. 

  Previous winners have

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• The Jugged Hare launches a Scotch Egg Flight

  

  Ever read about the Scotch Egg Challenge and thought that you'd like to try it - but maybe with slightly fewer eggs? Well, The Jugged Hare in The City is here to help. They're introducing an Egg Flight just for Easter which will let you taste a whole range. This will be a basket of goose, hen,

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• Smoking Goat wins the 2018 Scotch Egg Challenge

  

  Islington pub The Canonbury Tavern was packed out last night with chefs and foodies all keen to discover who would be turn out this year's winning entry in the 8th Scotch Egg Challenge.

  23 restaurants and gastropubs were in the running this year and the judging panel facing all those eggs were new Sunday Times Magazine food editor Lisa Markwell, Guardian and New Statesman writer Felicity Cloake, Restaurant Magazine

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• The Draper's Arms wins the 2017 Scotch Egg Challenge

  

  Last night, the competition to REALLY test the judges taking part was unleashed as Scotch Egg Challenge 2017 took place. Those judging had to wade through 15 different scotch eggs in order to crown this year's winner - with beef, prawn, veggie, haggis and more scotch eggs being thrown into the mix.

  But of the 15 - only three went away with prizes and those were....

  • 1st place - The Drapers
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• Chefs and judges announced for the 2017 Scotch Egg Challenge

  

  Updated 19/1/17 with shortlist

  After six years, the Scotch Egg Challenge is now one of the key dates in the London food calendar. This year's event will take place at The Canonbury in Islington on 8 February.

  Confirmed judges for the event itself include Fay Maschler from the Evening Standard, Ben Chapman of Smoking Goat and Kiln and Bob Granleese of the Guardian, while the evening will be compered by Joe

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• Scotch Egg Challenge 2015 winners are Holborn Dining Room and Princess Victoria

  

  Twenty two Scotch Eggs. That's an awful lot of Scotch Eggs. This was the daunting, yet glorious prospect at this year's Scotch Egg Challenge, involving chefs from some of the country's best restaurants and gastropubs competing to come up with the finest result.

  An expert panel of judges, Fay Maschler, Groucho Club executive chef Henry Harris, the Guardian's Bob Granleese and restaurant PR Hugh Wright, had the

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• The Scotch Egg Challenge 2015 comes to Islington

  

  For the past few years, the Scotch Egg Challenge at the Ship has been a huge deal (and last year Hot Dinners was on judges' table too when The Cornwall Project won). But as the Ship's landlord moved to take over The Canonbury Tavern, the challenge has also moved to its new Islington home.

  So if you're a

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• Yeah Burger launches Scotch egg burgers

  

  After donut burgers it was, we suspect, the next logical step. This is the scotch egg burger - being launched by Yeah Burger, who have a couple of residencies set up across town. It is, yes, a burger

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