Published on October 9, 2025
BEST CHEF AWARDS
We’re thrilled to share that this week Mark Birchall entered into the Best Chef Awards 2025 — an international accolade celebrating culinary excellence and innovation.
The Best Chef Awards is a global platform dedicated to celebrating the people behind the food. Founded to recognise creativity, innovation, and talent in gastronomy, the awards bring together chefs from every corner of the world, highlighting their vision and contribution to the culinary arts. This year we are proud to announce that Mark was awarded a Two Knife status which denotes World Class Cooking.
A GLOBAL SHOWCASE OF CULINARY EXCELLENCE
The 2025 edition of The Best Chef Awards brought together chefs, industry leaders, and culinary enthusiasts from across the globe for two days of conversation, collaboration, and creativity. Alongside the awards ceremony, the programme featured thought-provoking panel discussions, exclusive dining experiences, and unique opportunities for chefs to share their knowledge and perspectives.
Staged in Milan, a city long recognised as a centre of culture, design, and gastronomy, this year’s gathering highlighted both the city’s international influence and its role as a meeting point for the world’s culinary visionaries. With hundreds of chefs from more than 69 countries recognised across the Knife tiers, the 2025 edition cemented The Best Chef Awards as the most inclusive celebration of global gastronomy to date.
KNIFE RECOGNITION
The Best Chef Awards’ tiered Knife recognition system offers a more comprehensive, inclusive view of culinary excellence. This year saw the number of voters almost double compared to last year, reaching a total of 972, including 572 chefs from 64 countries and 400 industry professionals. Abandoning traditional rankings in 2024, the system honours chefs based on impact and skill across three categories, recognising culinary professionals across six continents:
You can view the full list here.
Further Reading
Lancashire is a land of abundance. Our gardens teem with fruit and vegetables and flowers and herbs. In season here you might eat peas straight out of the pod, so fresh all they need is a touch of salt and nasturtium oil. What we don’t grow we seek out from the amazing produce tended and nurtured by local farmers and artisans.
On site we’re also busy with charcuterie, bread-making and our own micro-dairy. There’s always something interesting to explore or a discovery to be made. And we like to share what we find.
We are delighted to share that Moor Hall has been named the No. 5 restaurant in the UK at the National Restaurant Awards 2026.
Mark joins the panel for the prestigious Roux Scholarship
Moor Hall retains 3 MICHELIN Stars and The Barn retains One MICHELIN Star.
Mark Birchall joins the judging panel.
Moor Hall and The Barn make the Squaremeal Top 100.
An exclusive dining experience in Atelier Hearth at Moor Hall.
Moor Hall has been voted the No. 1 restaurant in the UK in the prestigious Harden’s Top 100 Best UK Restaurants annual diners’ poll.
Sundays deserve more time.
More stillness. More space. More moments that feel like they belong entirely to you.
We are delighted to share that Moor Hall has been awarded Two MICHELIN Keys in the new MICHELIN Guide Hotel Selection.
