Welcome to the
World Steak Challenge, reimagined.

Launched in 2015 to deliver a recognised stamp of quality to support world-class steak production on a global platform, we give steak producers from across the world a unique opportunity to benchmark product quality, breed credentials and processing standards on the international stage. Congratulations to this year's winners!

2023 Winners

Congratulations to our 2023
World Steak Challenge winners!

After two days of judging hosted at Vlees & Co Steakhouse, Amsterdam where 80 independent industry experts gathered to score all of this year’s entrants according to both raw and cooked criteria. All of this year's entrants were then awarded a gold, silver or bronze medal prior to this year's official awards ceremony. 

On Monday 13 November 2023, over 150 people from across the globe gathered at the Smith & Wollensky, London for an exclusive awards ceremony, which saw Jack's Creek’s Sirloin Steak take home the coveted crown of the World’s Best Steak.

If you're interested in entering or attending next year's event, click here to register your interest!

2023 Winners

Stories

Take a journey from pasture to plate and learn more about the best steak producers across the globe.

Meet the judges

Our internationally renowned event is judged blind by a panel of over 80 independent experts including Richie Wilson, well-known TV chef and Culinary Director of FIRE Steakhouse & Bar and Ioannis Grammenos, Executive chef and Meatologist of Heliot Steak House in London.

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Judging Integrity

The World Steak Challenge prides itself on offering an independent, robust and fair judging process from start to finish. Integrity is at the heart of everything we do. Every steak is judged on its own merits against the internationally agreed judging criteria.

Stage One – Technical judging

All steaks are scored blindly on raw and cooked criteria by our expert panel of judges.

Stage Two – Scoring

All scores are totalled and the winners are verified by our judging panel.

Independent

The judging is independent and monitored at every stage. Every steak is judged on its own merits against the internationally agreed judging criteria.

Results

All steaks have the chance to win a gold, silver or bronze medal. The top-scoring steak will receive the coveted award of The World's Best Steak.

“The World Steak Challenge is the only event of it’s kind in the world. We import products that – from a quality and value point of view – are very far off the standard. We are delighted to finally have with the WSC a neutral platform of comparison that makes it possible to see where our quality is positioned on a global scale”.

Frank Albers Albers GmbH

“The World Steak Challenge is a wonderful and exciting way to test your beef quality. Gold & silver awards have been a great achievement for NOVILLO REAL beef from Uruguay and is a crown on the long-time performance of our beef in international foodservice and retail markets”

Job Goedegebuur FN Global Meat – The Finest meat from around the globe

“Really enjoyed the experience and meeting people who are as passionate as we are about steaks from the grass pastures to the plate”

Des Buckley FXBuckley Steakhouses

“The recognition and award we received in this competition is a major opportunity for our country, putting Romania on the map of quality producers and internationally promoting the Angus brand from Transylvania – meat produced in Europe for Europe. This success is indeed extremely valuable for us as a producer as well as for our country and the domestic production of a top product. “

Samuel Widmer Karpaten Meat Group

"In such a short time it has turned out to be the biggest and most recognised contest worldwide in terms of finding the best beef in the world”

Steffen Nagel JN Meat International

"WSC is a magnificent event celebrating beef from all over the world, and is a brilliant opportunity for farms, countries and producers to showcase their products - and be proud of their quality and what they do”

Ioannis Grammenos Heliot Steakhouse