Croquetas

• The Croquetas Challenge returns for 2023

  

  Over the past few years we've enjoyed being part of the judging panel for the annual Croquetas Challenge run by the Salt Yard Group. So we're delighted to be able to reveal that the event is back again for 2023 with some interesting competitors already signed up.

  In the run-up to the final on 6 June, the group will be arranging two heats in May when restaurants from across the city will compete.

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• Shuk take home the top prize at the 2022 Croquetas Challenge

  

  A sign that the London restaurant scene is fully getting its post-lockdown mojo back again came last night with the return of the annual Croquetas Challenge. Last held in 2019, the event hosted by the Salt Yard Group was back with a bang.

  After several highly competitive heats over the past weeks, seven finalists gathered at

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• Paradise By Way of Kensal Green wins the 2019 Croqueta Challenge

  

  It might have been properly tipping it down outside at the time, but a whole bunch of London foodies were having a touch of the croqueta sweats at the 2019 Croqueta Challenge at Ember Yard.

  Hot Dinners was one of a panel of four judges - including World Restaurant Awards founder (and our host for the evening) Joe Warwick, BBC Food Magazine's Lulu Grimes and supper club host Martha De Lacey.

  There had already been four

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• Here's who's taking part in the 2019 Croqueta Challenge - updated

  

  Updated 25/9/19 with finalists' details

  If the impending arrival of Autumn (if it isn't here already) has you depressed, then we have some good news to counter that. September may mean the end of the hols and back to work, but it also means that the Salt Yard Group Croqueta Challenge is just around the corner.

  We've ...