Awards

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North of England Butcher's Shop of the Year

Bruce and his team are thrilled to announce that they have won the North of England Butcher's Shop of the Year category at this years' Butcher's Shop of the Year Awards 2015.


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Sporting Shooter October 2015

Bruce recently featured in an article discussing game meats in the October 2015 edition of Sporting Shooter.

You can read the full article here.


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Butcher's Shop of the Year Awards 2015

Bruce and his team are thrilled to announce that they have been shortlisted as one of three finalists for the North of England Butcher's Shop of the Year category at this years' Butcher's Shop of the Year Awards 2015.


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The Great Taste Awards 2015

Bruce and his team are thrilled to announce success at The Great Taste Awards 2015.

Ernest W Edge & Son have been awarded a 2 star "Outstanding" for their Molasses Dry Cure Cheshire Streaky Bacon and a 1 star "simply delicious" for their Stuffed Tenderloin Of Pork.


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Northern Independent Retail Awards 2015

We are really excited to have made the final six of the Northern Independent Retail Awards 2015 for best butcher in the North West.

As the only finalist from Chester we will be competing against butchers from Liverpool, Manchester and Preston in the final which is taking place on the 27th September.


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Best Plain Pork Sausage of the year 2015

We are delighted to announce that we have won Cheshire's 'Best Plain Pork Sausage' of 2015 at this year's Chester Food Drink & Lifestyle Festival.

Press links and photos to follow shortly.


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Sausage of the year finalist 2015

Chester Food Drink and Lifestyle Festival shortlists Ernest W Edge & Son as sausage of the year finalist 2015!

A panel of 10 judges deliberated in a blind tasting over sausages from right across Cheshire.

Read the full article in the
Chester Chronicle


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Start your day the farmhouse way

Bruce Edge, of Ernest W Edge & Son, Handbridge, one of Chester's leading butchers gives advice on what makes a good sausage.
Rule number one is that you cannot make a great sausage without putting great ingredients into it. We take pride in our sausages and put only the best quality shoulders and bellies of local Cheshire pork into them.

Read the full article in the
Chester Chronicle


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A farmhouse breakfast needs delicious bacon in it

Bruce Edge of Ernest W Edge & Son of Handbridge gives his views on what makes great bacon.

A lovely farmhouse breakfast needs delicious bacon in it. Quality is key and there is a lot of mass produced rubbish freely available.

Read the full article in the
Chester Chronicle


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Award-winning butchers are top of the chops!

Ernest W. Edge & Son are delighted to announce that they have won awards in all 5 categories they entered at this year's annual BPEX competition.

Read the full article in the
Chester Chronicle.


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Chester butchers boom during horse meat scandal

Family butchers are booming as hundreds of customers flock back to the high street in the midst of the horse meat scandal.

Read Bruce Edge's comments in the Daily Telegraph and the
Chester Chronicle


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Family pride at 75 years in business

On the 12 July 2012 we appeared in the Chester Chronicle for an article celebrating our 75th anniversary.

You can view the article by clicking here.

Alternatively to view the article as it appeared in the paper click here.


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Website launched

We are pleased to announce the launch of our new website. We hope you will find the site informative and don't forget that our new carrier bag competition will be running from 1st January 2012.


Awards

Awards

The Great Taste Awards 2015

We have been awarded a 2 star "Outstanding" for our Molasses Dry Cure Cheshire Streaky Bacon and 1 star "simply delicious" for our Stuffed Tenderloin Of Pork.


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Chester Food Drink & Lifestyle Festival Winner

We are delighted to announce that we have won Cheshire's 'Best Plain Pork Sausage' of 2015 at this year's Chester Food Drink & Lifestyle Festival.

Press links and photos to follow shortly.


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Re-awarded 5 Star Food Hygiene Award

We are very proud to announce that in October 2014 we were re-awarded a 5 star food hygiene rating, the highest standard for food hygiene from Cheshire West and Chester Council.

For more information about the food hygiene rating scheme please visit www.food.gov.uk/ratings


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BPEX Regional Roadshow Gold Award

Ernest W. Edge & Son are delighted to announce that they have been awarded a Gold award for their Tenderloin of pork


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BPEX Regional Roadshow Silver Award

Ernest W. Edge & Son are delighted to announce that they have been awarded a Silver award for their Traditional Pork Sausages


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BPEX Regional Roadshow Silver Award

Ernest W. Edge & Son are delighted to announce that they have been awarded a silver award for their Cheshire Dry Cured Streaky bacon.


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BPEX Regional Roadshow Bronze Award

Ernest W. Edge & Son are delighted to announce that they have been awarded a bronze award for their Pork, Rosemary, Oregano, Sage and Thyme sausage


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BPEX Regional Roadshow Bronze Award

Ernest W. Edge & Son are delighted to announce that they have been awarded a bronze award for their pork, sage, red onion and garlic sausage


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Chester Food & Drink Festival 2012 Runner Up

We are delighted to announce that Ernest W Edge & Son were runners at the Chester Food & Drink Festival 2012 for James Handel's excellent pork, cheshire blue cheese and chive sausages.


Awards

Re-awarded 5 Star Food Hygiene Award

We are very proud to announce that on 27 February 2013 we were re-awarded a 5 star food hygiene rating, the highest standard for food hygiene from Cheshire West and Chester Council.

For more information about the food hygiene rating scheme please visit www.food.gov.uk/ratings


Awards

5 Star Food Hygiene Award

We are very proud to announce that we have been awarded a 5 star food hygiene rating, the highest standard for food hygiene from Cheshire West and Chester Council.

For more information about the food hygiene rating scheme please visit www.food.gov.uk/ratings


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Chester Food & Drink Festival 2011 Winner

We are delighted to announce that we are the current sausage competition winners 2011 for our Cheshire pork and herb sausages that are now available in store.