UK BBQ Industry Awards 2021

Best BBQ Restaurant permanent bricks and mortar establishments with a BBQ or fire cooked menu.
Best BBQ Street Trader food trucks, pop up and street food sellers specialising in BBQ & fire cooked foods.
Best BBQ Butchers best butchers specialising in BBQ friendly cuts and offerings.
Best Retailer Own Brand BBQ Range the supermarkets own range of BBQ products, including meats, sauces, ready meals.

Best Plant-based BBQ Restaurant permanent bricks and mortar establishments with a BBQ or fire cooked menu.
Best Plant-based BBQ Street Trader food trucks, pop up and street food sellers specialising in BBQ & fire cooked foods.
Best Plant-based BBQ Meat Replacement Product Plant-based meat is meat made from plants. It is especially designed and created to look like, taste like, and cook like conventional meat.
Best Retailer of Plant-based Own Brand BBQ Range The supermarkets own range of BBQ products, including, sauces, ready meals plant based meat.

ALL sauces must be commercially available (through wholesale, retail, or direct marketing generally available to the public.) Labels MUST conform to all applicable laws and regulations including FDA nutritional information. Each sauce can only be entered into one category. You may NOT enter the same sauce.

Best Fruit BBQ Sauce Key foundation ingredient must be a fruit, and this be reflected in the product ingredients and flavours.
Best Mustard BBQ Sauce Key foundation ingredient must be mustard and must be reflected in the product's top 3 ingredients.
Best Tomato based BBQ Sauce Key foundation ingredient must be tomato, and this be reflected in the product ingredients and flavours. It should have a spicy disposition.
Best Spicy Vinegar BBQ Sauce Key foundation style must be vinegar and must be reflected in the product's top 3 ingredients. It should have a spicy disposition.
Best new BBQ sauce Released this year.
Best Original BBQ Sauce This category is for sauces that do not fit into other categories and has a unique or distinct flavours profile such as but not limited to Korean Barbecue Sauce, Curry Sauce, Mole, and similar.

ALL rubs must be commercially available (through wholesale, retail, or direct marketing generally available to the public.) Labels MUST conform to all applicable laws and regulations including nutritional information. Each rub can only be entered into one category. You may NOT enter the same sauce.

Best Beef Rub A rub designed to be cooked with beef whether barbecued low and slow on smoke or hot and fast grilled.
Best Pork Rub A rub designed to be cooked with pork whether barbecued low and slow on smoke or hot and fast grilled.
Best Poultry Rub A rub designed to be cooked with poultry, e.g. chicken, turkey, or similar, whether barbecued low and slow on smoke or hot and fast grilled.
Best Spicy Rub A rub designed to be spicy and have a kick to it, this is to be reflected in its ingredients.
Best all-purpose Rub A general-purpose BBQ rub for use across all cooking and food types.
Best Original BBQ Rub This category is for rubs that do not fit into other categories and has a unique or distinct flavour profile such as but not limited to base rubs, finishing rubs, game rubs, and similar.

Best BBQ Blog Includes solely a blog, or a blog as part of a larger website. A blog authored by a single person, either as an independent entity or an extension of an existing media brand, OR a blog authored by a group of individuals, either as an independent entity or an extension of an existing media brand.
Best BBQ Website Includes, product, produce, personality, e-commerce or similar. A BBQ-related online webpage that is produced by one or more individuals. To differentiate from a blog, entrants in this category are more likely to be database driven rather than simply organised by post or in a journal format. The focus of the site may be primarily news, information, entertainment, and may also be a product or retail site. The site may or may not contain recipes.
Best BBQ Video Series Includes, YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, television or similar. A series is defined as a minimum of six video programs that originally were broadcast within 2020. Each individual video may be of any length. Three episodes must be submitted for consideration.
Best Single BBQ Focused Video Includes, feature film, an episode from YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook or similar. Video may be any length and may focus on news, entertainment (including humour), instruction or another subject. While submissions to this category may have been part of a series, please note that any video entered in the BBQ Video Series is not eligible to be re-entered into this category.

Best BBQ Focus Article Includes magazine, newspaper, webpage, blog, or similar. Articles may be any length and may focus on news, entertainment (including humour), instruction or another subject that was published in 2019.
Best BBQ Book of the Year Includes any BBQ book published in the year 2020 BBQ books may or may not include recipes and be released in any country.

Best BBQ Commercial Photograph Includes any photographs that are commissioned and used in any advertising or marketing campaign, print or online, or in product packaging, collateral, or on a corporate or business website throughout 2020.
Best BBQ Food Photo Includes any image where the food is the topic and accounts for 70+ of the image taken in 2020.
Best Live Fire Photo Includes any image where the fire is the topic and accounts for 70+ of the image taken in 2020.
Best BBQ photographer as well as individual pictures above, whose style or output is consistently the best in the field.