BBC Food and Farming Awards head to Belfast for the first time in 20 years
The 2026 BBC Food and Farming Awards will be presented at the Titanic, Belfast on 21 October, the first time the ceremony has been held in Northern Ireland in two decades. The shortlist celebrates independent producers including Mourne Mountain Brewery, Shortcross Distillery, rapeseed oil maker Broighter Gold, Ballyboley Dexters and Crawford's Rock Seaweed, with judges praising businesses that "make life better through food.
Source: newsletter.co.uk
Pembrokeshire sorbet crowned Welsh Golden Fork at Great Taste 2026
Fire and Ice, a small producer from Narberth in Pembrokeshire, took the Golden Fork for Wales at the Guild of Fine Food's Great Taste Awards for its passion fruit sorbet, seeing off competition from 306 other three-star products worldwide. Judges praised its creamy texture and sharp, tangy natural fruit flavour, a strong showing for an independent Welsh maker on a genuinely global stage.
Source: businessnewswales.com
Aberdeenshire bakery Murdoch Allan branches into butchery
Family bakery Murdoch Allan has opened a butcher's shop in Peterhead, selling Aberdeen Angus beef reared on its own Hatton farm alongside other locally sourced meat, vegetables and ready meals. The move created six new local jobs and builds on the firm's long-standing reputation in the north-east, where it already supplies Aberdeen FC's home ground with its pies.
Source: foodmanufacture.co.uk
Cumbrian butcher lands five finalist spots in UK Sausage Week awards
Dales Traditional Butchers in Kirkby Lonsdale has been shortlisted in five categories for the UK's national sausage awards, from a venison, cranberry and sage speciality to a beef and Marmite banger, putting it among the most-nominated butchers in the country. Owners Mark and Fiona Duckworth will find out if they have taken home the UK Supreme Sausage Champion title at an awards lunch at Butchers' Hall in London on 26 October
Source: cumbriacrack.com
Steakhouse family opens a farm shop and kitchen outside Bristol
Mark and Amy Warburton, founders of the Cow & Sow steakhouse brand, are opening The Field Farmshop & Kitchen in Flax Bourton, just outside Bristol, this autumn. The venue pairs a 70-seat restaurant with a shop selling home-grown produce, fresh bread, dairy and butchery, built opposite the couple's own Kitchen Farm and backed by fire-cooking specialist Ross Anderson, a World Steak Challenge judge.
Source: restaurantindustry.co.uk
Irish producers and chefs celebrated at the Georgina Campbell Awards
The 2026 Georgina Campbell Irish Food and Hospitality Awards, held in Dublin, recognised independent food producers alongside the country's top chefs and restaurants, with categories going to Glenisk organic dairy in Co. Offaly, Clarke's Fresh Fruit in Co. Meath, Wild Irish Game in Co. Wicklow and Wicklow Wolf Brewery. Wade Murphy of 1826 Adare in Co. Limerick was named Chef of the Year, and hospitality veterans Paul and Marie Flynn of The Tannery in Waterford picked up the Hospitality Hero award.
Source: irishtimes.com