taste awards finalists 2025
The beers have been sipped, the pies have been savoured and the 2025 Deliciously Yorkshire Taste Awards shortlist is ready to be unveiled!
A team of industry experts including chefs, supermarket buyers, writers and consultants descended on the Great Yorkshire Events Centre last month to work their way through a record number of entries from the region’s finest food and drink businesses, in a bid to whittle down hundreds of tasty products into this year’s list of finalists.
With thanks to our Headline Sponsor:
Booths was founded on one simple aim, to sell the best food and drink available. Recognising excellence in locally produced food and drink is vital in the food industry and we’re proud to support 21 years of celebrating the best that Yorkshire has to offer.
Nigel Murray – Managing Director of Booths
Congratulations to all our shortlisted businesses
we look forward to seeing you all at the Pavilions in November!
Deliciously Yorkshire Taste Awards 2025
finalists
Best Bakery Product
Blacker Hall Farm Shop
Shortbread Biscuits
Bondgate Bakery
Fruity Muesli Bread
Cake Kitchen Ripon
Bakewell Tart
Luke’s Bakery
Hot Cross Sourdough Loaf
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best beer
Great Newsome Brewery
Little Valley Dalit King
Harrogate Brewing Co
Harrogate Best Bitter 4.5%
Harrogate Brewing Co
Nidd Mild 3.7%
Rudgate Brewery
Ragnar Pale Ale
Wold Top Brewery
Landmark Lager
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best beverage (cold)
Cridling Limited
Naturally Unflavoured Kombucha
Equinox Organic Kombucha
Pink Grapefruit & Guava
Equinox Organic Kombucha
Sicilian Lemon
Yorkshire Wolds Apple Juice
Cloudy Apple & Elderflower
Best beverage (hot)
Casa Coffee Roasters
Ethiopia Gotiti
Danelaw Coffee
Nott Fjødr Light Roast Decaf Blend
Dark Woods Coffee
Colombia Villa Betulia Maragesha
Rounton Coffee Roasters
Colombia Gesha Edinson Argote
York Cocoa Works
70% Quite Dark Hot Chocolate
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Best cheese & dairy
Burtree Puddings
Vanilla Panna Cotta
Rosedale Goats Cheese
The Rosedale
Shepherds Purse Cheeses
Olde York
St Helen’s Farm
St Helen’s Farm Goats Butter
St Helen’s Farm
Woldsway Mild Goats Cheese
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best confectionery
Mallowdramatic
Malted Caramel Popcorn Marshmallow
Mallowdramatic
Thai Green Curry Marshmallow
Mallowdramatic
Watermelon Sangrita Marshmallow
York Cocoa Works
Chocolate Orange Truffles
York Cocoa Works
72% Madagascar Dark Chocolate
Best fish & seafood
Farsley Fire & Smoke
Maple, Miso & Black Garlic Hot Smoked Salmon
Farsley Fire & Smoke
Yuzu & Shiso Cold Smoked Salmon
Staal Smokehouse
Cold Smoked Trout
Yorkshire Speciality Foods
Traditionally Cured Gravadlax
Best free from
Casa Mia
Pistachio Amaretto Biscuits
Fodder – Great Yorkshire Food Hall
Wagyu Burger
Geo Middlemiss & Son
Wharfedale Winter Warmer Sausage
Rakusens of Yorkshire
Sea Salt & Black Pepper Crackers
The British Premium Sausage Company
Gluten Free Cumberland Sausage
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Best fresh meat
Fodder – Great Yorkshire Food Hall
Heritage 30 Day Dry Aged Tomahawk Steak
Lishman’s of Ilkley
Heritage Breed T-Bone Steak
Soanes Poultry
Chicken Wings
Soanes Poultry
Grain Fed Whole Chicken
Warrendale Wagyu
Wagyu Sirloin
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best ice cream
Farmer Copleys
Completely Nuts Hazelnut Gelato
Ryeburn of Helmsley
Banoffee
Ryeburn of Helmsley
Mango & Passion Fruit Yoghurt
Ryeburn of Helmsley
Salted Pistachio
Stamfrey Farm
Apple Sorbet
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Best pantry
Aagrah Foods
Butter Chicken
Blacker Hall Farm Shop
Korean BBQ Sauce
Cook with Owen
Authentic Onion Bhaji Spice Mix
Monalisa’s Kitchen
Makhani Masala
YoYo Laos Sauce
YoYo Bolaven Salted Green Pepper
Best pork pie
Finer Pleasures
Pork Pie ‘Un Peu Français’
J A Mounfield & Son
1lb Pork Pie
Jacksons Butchers
Traditional Flat Pork Pie
Lishman’s of Ilkley
Pork Pie
Voakes Pies
Pork Pie
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Best prepared meat (cold)
Lishman’s of Ilkley
Pork, Pepper & Garlic Salami
Lishman’s of Ilkley
Beech Smoked Chicken
Mount Grace Charcuterie
Pork, Lemon & Pistachio Salami
Warrendale Wagyu
Wagyu Beef Dripping
Wildman Charcuterie
Yorkshire Dales Speck Ham
Best prepared meat (hot)
Anna’s Happy Trotters
Free Range Guanciale
Fodder – Great Yorkshire Food Hall
Chicken Shawarma
Fodder – Great Yorkshire Food Hall
Home Cured Rind on Middle Bacon
Richardson’s of Woodthorpe
Brisket, Cheese & Bacon Burger
Town End Farm Shop
Malhamdale Longhorn Beefburger
best ready to eat
Anna’s Happy Trotters
Free Range Sausage Roll
Bondgate Bakery
Beluga Lentil & Feta Salad
Geo Middlemiss & Son
Family Steak & Potato Pie
J A Mounfield & Son
Family Chicken & Ham Pie
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best savoury condiment
Farmer Copleys
Copleys Kitchen Ploughman’s Piccalilli
Mumtaz at Home
Mumtaz Saucy Achari Chutney Dip
The Yorkshire Deli
Smoked Vinegar
YoYo Laos Sauce
YoYo Pineapple, Chilli & Roasted Pepper Sauce
best spirit
Fairfax Distillery
Black Tom Gin
Rhucello Limited
Rhucello
Sloemotion Distillery
Sloe Shiraz
Spirit of Yorkshire Distillery
Filey Bay Regenerative Edition
Wicstun Distillery
Scarborough Gin
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best sustainable product
Sloemotion Distillery
Hedgerow Strawberry Spirit Drink with Vodka
Soanes Poultry
Higher Welfare Whole Chicken
The Milk Well
Whole Pasteurised Milk
York Cocoa Works
Classic Hot Chocolate
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best sweet spread & preserve
Just Delicious
Strawberry Jam
Just Delicious
Whisky Marmalade
Rosalind’s Larder
Blueberry Pinot Noir & Liquorice Jam
Rosalind’s Larder
Cherry Jam with Cherry Brandy
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best new business
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best wholesaler
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Rising Star
Chris Hobson
The View Restaurant
Jonny Mottram
Park House Barns
Ruth Parker
Rosedale Goats Cheese
Mikael Paylor
New Inn, Appletreewick
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Judy Bell Yorkshire Food Hero
WINNER TO BE ANNOUNCED 4TH NOVEMBER
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supreme product champion
WINNER TO BE ANNOUNCED 4TH NOVEMBER
Celebrating their 21st anniversary, the Taste Awards, run by Deliciously Yorkshire, the Regional Food Group for Yorkshire and the Humber, have grown to be the largest and most respected awards of their type in the North of England.
The 26 awards categories include Best Beer, Pork Pie and Bakery, Fresh Meat, Spirits and Best Sustainable Product as well as a number of non-product categories such as Best Independent Retailer, Best New Business and Rising Star.
The Taste Awards welcome back Booths supermarket as their 2025 Headline Sponsor, a business who have championed artisan producers and supported the work of Deliciously Yorkshire for a number of years.
This year’s Taste Award Champions will be announced at a glittering black-tie event at the Pavilions of Harrogate on Wednesday 4th November, an evening of celebration where guests will dine on a menu featuring many of the shortlisted products.
The ceremony will also include the announcement of the Rising Star of 2025 – this year’s new award for an emerging trailblazer who is making waves in the early stages of their career – as well as the Judy Bell Yorkshire Food Hero Award, presented to an individual who has gone above and beyond to promote and champion the industry.
The 2025 Taste Awards Supreme Product Champion will be unveiled, awarded to the entry which this year’s judging panel deemed to be the overall standout product of the year.
“The categories in the Taste Awards look to highlight the very best of food and drink crafted, grown and served in the county, and boy did Yorkshire’s businesses come up trumps this year! Judging is a pleasure as we always uncover something new and innovative, but the standard this year has been incredibly high across the board, making the task that much harder. It’s testament to Yorkshire’s thriving food and drink industry that these awards continue to grow and thrive, even after 21 years, and we can’t wait to unveil this year’s Taste Awards champions in November.”
Nigel Barden – Head Judge