North of England Butcher's Shop of the Year
Bruce and his team are thrilled to announce that they have won the North of England Butcher's Shop of the Year category at this years' Butcher's Shop of the Year Awards 2015.
Sporting Shooter October 2015
Bruce recently featured in an article discussing game meats in the October 2015 edition of Sporting Shooter.
You can read the full article here.
Butcher's Shop of the Year Awards 2015
Bruce and his team are thrilled to announce that they have been shortlisted as one of three finalists for the North of England Butcher's Shop of the Year category at this years' Butcher's Shop of the Year Awards 2015.
The Great Taste Awards 2015
Bruce and his team are thrilled to announce success at The Great Taste Awards 2015.
Ernest W Edge & Son have been awarded a 2 star "Outstanding" for their Molasses Dry Cure Cheshire Streaky Bacon and a 1 star "simply delicious" for their Stuffed Tenderloin Of Pork.
Northern Independent Retail Awards 2015
We are really excited to have made the final six of the Northern Independent Retail Awards 2015 for best butcher in the North West.
As the only finalist from Chester we will be competing against butchers from Liverpool, Manchester and Preston in the final which is taking place on the 27th September.
Best Plain Pork Sausage of the year 2015
We are delighted to announce that we have won Cheshire's 'Best Plain Pork Sausage' of 2015 at this year's Chester Food Drink & Lifestyle Festival.
Press links and photos to follow shortly.
Sausage of the year finalist 2015
Chester Food Drink and Lifestyle Festival shortlists Ernest W Edge & Son as sausage of the year finalist 2015!
A panel of 10 judges deliberated in a blind tasting over sausages from right across Cheshire.
Read the full article in the
Chester Chronicle
Start your day the farmhouse way
Bruce Edge, of Ernest W Edge & Son, Handbridge, one of Chester's leading butchers gives advice on what makes a good sausage.
Rule number one is that you cannot make a great sausage without putting great ingredients into it. We take pride in our sausages and put only the best quality shoulders and bellies of local Cheshire pork into them.
Read the full article in the
Chester Chronicle
A farmhouse breakfast needs delicious bacon in it
Bruce Edge of Ernest W Edge & Son of Handbridge gives his views on what makes great bacon.
A lovely farmhouse breakfast needs delicious bacon in it. Quality is key and there is a lot of mass produced rubbish freely available.
Read the full article in the
Chester Chronicle
Award-winning butchers are top of the chops!
Ernest W. Edge & Son are delighted to announce that they have won awards in all 5 categories they entered at this year's annual BPEX competition.
Read the full article in the
Chester Chronicle.
Chester butchers boom during horse meat scandal
Family butchers are booming as hundreds of customers flock back to the high street in the midst of the horse meat scandal.
Read Bruce Edge's comments in the Daily Telegraph and the
Chester Chronicle
Family pride at 75 years in business
On the 12 July 2012 we appeared in the Chester Chronicle for an article celebrating our 75th anniversary.
You can view the article by clicking here.
Alternatively to view the article as it appeared in the paper click here.
Website launched
We are pleased to announce the launch of our new website. We hope you will find the site informative and don't forget that our new carrier bag competition will be running from 1st January 2012.