FINAL PLAY OFF FOR BURGER CONTEST

Scotland's top burgers are a testing course for St Andrews experts

After the selection of the top five in the 2011 Scottish Craft Butchers Beefburger evaluation held in Dunfermline, the best five beefburgers were mystery shopped and then submitted before three expert judges at the St Andrews Links Trust.

The judges on Friday 8th April were:_
Scott Dougal from Strathtyrum Catering, (former Scottish Chef of the year 2000),
Ewen Bowman operations director for St Andrews Links Trust, and
Ian Macdonald, Executive head chef for St Andrews Links Trust and vice president of the Federation of Chefs Scotland.

The Links Trust serves hundreds of burgers to golfers every year and although the three judges were very impressed with all the finalists.

The results will be announced at the Scottish Meat Trade Fair to be held in Dewars Centre, Perth on Sunday 8th May.

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