Mentorship Award
How the next Roux Scholar can double the cash prize by sharing their skills
Get out of your
comfort zone!
Former finalists Nathan Outlaw and Bryn Williams on how The Roux Scholarship helped their careers
Honorary President
of Judges 2020
Sweden’s first three-star Michelin chef Björn Frantzén to head the judging panel of the 2020 national final.
Stage set for Stockholm
Winner Spencer Metzger to spend his three-month stage at Frantzén
Official film of the
Roux Scholarship 2019
Watch the highlights of this year’s competition
Spencer Metzger
Crowned 36th Roux Scholar
Spencer Metzger, of The Ritz, has won the 2019 Roux Scholarship
The rise and rise
of British chefs
How the Roux Scholarship put British chefs on the culinary map,
by Amanda Afiya
The Skills You Need to be
a Roux Scholar
Do you have the 13 skills needed to be the next Roux Scholar?
Roux Scholarship 2020 is now OPEN for entries
Chefs aged 22-30yrs cooking in the UK have until 31st January 2020 to apply
Enter Now...Spencer Metzger crowned 36th Roux Scholar
Spencer Metzger, of The Ritz, has won the 2019 Roux Scholarship. He beat five other finalists in a fiercely contested final held at Westminster Kingsway College, London, on Monday 1st April.
Read more...Six National Finalists 2019
The Roux family is delighted to announce the names of the six chefs who will compete for the title of Roux Scholar 2019.
Read more...2019 Competition Entries Close Soon!
Time is running out for the 2019 competition - deadline is 31st January. Enter now! Are you ready for this year’s recipe challenge? Entrants of the Roux Scholarship must be in full-time employment as a chef in the United Kingdom and be aged 22 or above, but no older than 30 years of age on 1st February 2019
Enter Now2019 Competition Dates Announced
The 2019 Roux Scholarship will be open for entries on the 12th November 2018: Recipe ingredients are announced and entries open.
Read more...The 2017 Roux Scholarship Finalists
Scott Dineen
BaxterStorey, London
Oliver Downey
Fera at Claridge’s, Mayfair, London
Michael Cruickshank
Bohemia, St Helier, Jersey
Matthew Whitfield
The Driftwood Hotel, Portscatho, Cornwall
Martin Carabott
Luca Restaurant, Clarkenwell, London
Luke Selby
Dabbous, London
About the Roux Scholarship
The Roux Scholarship is the premier competition for chefs in the UK and ranks among the most prestigious in the world. However, it is far more than just a competition that ends with a prize the same year.
The Roux Scholarship offers the winner a career-changing opportunity that is unrivalled and stretches far beyond the much coveted three-month stage at a three star Michelin restaurant. That is just the start: what follows is the mentoring by the Roux Family, with advice and guidance that can make a career truly exceptional.
Past Scholarship Winners
Important Competition Dates
12 November 2019
Open for entries
Recipe ingredients are announced and entries open. Applications must include a written recipe using the stated ingredients and submitted electronically here
19 March 2020
Regional Finals
Regional finalists compete, each cooking their written recipe plus a mystery basket dessert recipe challenge. Regional finals take place at University College Birmingham and University of West London. Six national finalists shortlisted.
6 April 2020
The Final & Awards
At Westminster Kingsway, Awards Ceremony at the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park
The Judges
The 13 typical skills you need to be the next Roux Scholar
Do you know how to prepare a ‘ballotine’ or make a ‘mousseline’? If so, then you could be in with a chance of winning the Roux Scholarship and, in doing so, open the door to a world of opportunities. This list is by no means definitive but it gives an idea of the typical skills the Roux Family are looking for in the next chef to be crowned ‘Roux Scholar’.
Those with their eye on the life-changing prize don’t need to be working at a Michelin-star restaurant: the Roux Family want to encourage ambitious young chefs, whatever their background, to apply.
