Help judge London's best bread and butter champions at The Bread & Butter-Off 2026

It's increasingly becoming one of the ways in which a restaurant can really showcase the kitchen's creativity and now there's a special event devoted to the bread course. This October, eight London restaurants and bakeries are going to be pitted against each other in the city's inaugural Bread and Butter-Off 2026.

The event, sponsored by Kerrygold of course, will take place at 40FT Brewery's Walthamstow base. It's the brainchild of hospitality industry website Countertalk, who have picked the participants. A judging panel of experts including chef Jeremy Lee and Toad Bakery's Rebecca Spaven will be deciding who goes home with this year's trophy, alongside a vote from the general public.

Here's who's going to be taking part (and what they're bringing to the voting table).

• Osteria Angelina - Hokkaido milk bread with kumquat jam and burnt honey butter
• Don't Tell Dad - miso and brown rice bread served with chilli, thyme and honey butter
• Peckham Cellars’ focaccia served with a whipped flavoured butter (the flavour will be revealed on the day)
• Tavern - fire bread with tomato and house miso butter
• Gina and Fink's will both compete with their sourdough and Portland and The Fat Badger will both have a soda bread in the game.

Tickets are £25, which gets you a welcome drink and eight portions of the competing bread and butters. And the winning team will get a year's supply of Kerrygold, which sounds excellent.