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Credit: Secret Manchester The National Burger Awards final: live cook-off, technical challenge, plant-based burger round and The Great Shake Challenge <\/p>\n
The 2026 event will see 16 chefs from burger operators across the hospitality sector take part in the live final, cooking up their signature recipes for a panel of industry judges<\/strong>. The line-up this year includes previous winners of the competition, such as Bleecker<\/strong>, Danny\u2019s Burgers<\/strong>, and El Perro Negro<\/strong>, as well as welcoming National Burger Awards debutants in Burger & Beyond<\/strong>, Honest Burgers<\/strong>, and Dover St Counter<\/strong>. Meat Stack<\/strong> will represent Newcastle at the cook-off in London, while there are also returns for popular burger outfits such as 7bone<\/strong>, Mollie\u2019s<\/strong>, The Boring Burger<\/strong>, and Fat Hippo<\/strong>.<\/p>\nAs well as cooking up their signature burgers, finalists will take part in a technical challenge<\/strong> where they must create the ultimate burger from a selection of sponsor ingredients. They will then participate in a plant-based burger round<\/strong>. The 2026 National Burger Awards will also see the return of The Great Shake Challenge<\/strong>, in which another selection of leading operators will battle it out to see whose milkshake creation will be named best in the UK.<\/p>\n Credit: Supplied The 2026 National Burger Awards finalists <\/p>\n
Bleecker<\/strong> \u2013 Bacon Double<\/p>\nBurger & Beyond<\/strong> \u2013 Bacon Butter Burger<\/p>\nDanny\u2019s Burgers<\/strong> \u2013 The Frenchie<\/p>\nDodo Pub Co<\/strong> \u2013 The Longhorn Burger<\/p>\nDover St Counter<\/strong> \u2013 Cheeseburger<\/p>\nEl Perro Negro<\/strong> \u2013 The Top Dog<\/p>\nFat Hippo<\/strong> \u2013 The Louve Loot<\/p>\nHonest Burgers<\/strong> \u2013 The Honest<\/p>\n Credit: Supplied <\/p>\n
Meat Stack<\/strong> \u2013 West Coast Classic<\/p>\nMollie\u2019s<\/strong> \u2013 Mollie\u2019s Double Cheeseburger<\/p>\nOowee Diner<\/strong> \u2013 The Camembert Cream<\/p>\nRoddy Burger<\/strong> \u2013 The Gazza<\/p>\n7bone<\/strong> \u2013 Loyal to the Bone<\/p>\nSoBe Burger<\/strong> \u2013 Double Bacon Black Garlic<\/p>\nThe Boring Burger<\/strong> \u2013 The Boring Burger<\/p>\nThe Flavour Trailer<\/strong> \u2013 The Drip<\/p>\nThe National Burger Awards final will take place at Big Penny Social in Walthamstow, London on Tuesday 24th March 2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Mollie’s\/Supplied Save The finalists for this year\u2019s highly anticipated National Burger Awards have been revealed and Manchester…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,66001,393,4884,2465,16,15],"class_list":["post-759453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manchester","tag-britain","tag-burger","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-manchester","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116057632018391828","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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