‘We're over the moon’ - Joy as award-winning Bridgnorth butcher shop scoops accolades at pie awards
An award-winning butcher shop in Bridgnorth is celebrating after winning three accolades at one of the UK’s most prestigious food awards.
Alderson's Butchers Pie House & Kitchen, based in Sydney Cottage Drive, Bridgnorth scooped the honours at the Great British Pie Awards last Friday, held in Melton Mowbray - the home of the pork pie.
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The butcher shop has won numerous awards before, including best beef steak at the 2023 Golden Cleaver Awards and last year it took home two bronze awards at the Pie Awards.
But Julia Spencer, who runs the butcher shop with husband Charlie, said this was their best achievement to date.
“What a day, we walked away with three awards in total," she said .
“This is our best result at The British Pie Awards and one of our greatest achievements to date!”
The shop received a Silver Award for their Steak & Ale Pie, a Silver Award for their Steak & Shropshire Blue pie, but she said the greatest accolade was winning the the prestigious Highly Commended Award for their Balti Chicken/Sports Pie - which was created for the stands at two local football teams.
"They had a record breaking 1,040 pie entries at the awards this year," said Julia. "We entered our Balti Pie, which we supply to Telford Town FC and Shifnal Town FC," said Julia. "We are over the moon. We enter every year and were aiming for gold but coming away with highly commended is fantastic.
“Thank you to The British Pie Awards for a fantastic day, a massive well done to our brilliant team!"
Baldy's Chicken Kiev Pie of Wigan was named “Supreme Champion” champion at the pie award.
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