BBC Good Food Show Scotland Launches the Quest for Glasgow's Best Independent Food Shop

The BBC Good Food Show Scotland is on the hunt for Glasgow's Best Independent Food Shop for the third year in a revamped format using social media to cast the net as wide as possible. The Shows are once again teaming up with the BBC Good Food Senior Food Editor, Barney Desmazery, to scour the region for Glasgow's hidden gems and calling on the Glaswegian locals to nominate their favourites. However this year, for the first time, shops can be nominated on Twitter and Instagram, and the shop with the most nominations will be automatically shortlisted and visited by the judges.

The winner will receive a free stand at the BBC Good Food Show Scotland at the SECC from 6 – 8 November 2015 to showcase their shop to thousands of food loving visitors.

BBC Good Food Senior Food Editor and Glasgow's Best Independent Food Shop Judge, Barney Desmazery, says: "I'm so pleased to be running this competition for the third year in Scotland. Glasgow has such an amazing food scene and it's a veritable larder of amazing local produce so the quality of independent food shops is always really high. I can't wait to find the winner for 2015!"

Laura Biggs, organiser of the BBC Good Food Shows and Judge of Glasgow's Best Independent Food Shop comments: "We are so excited to have the opportunity to team up with BBC Good Food Magazine again and search such an amazing city for an incredible food shop. We love finding undiscovered food havens and one of the greatest things about this scheme is that we get to make changes to deserving small businesses out there and give them the opportunity to promote themselves to thousands of food fans from the region!"

Judges will be looking at the following:

- Range of international and local produce

- Quality and value of produce

- Product knowledge and enthusiasm

- Customer service

- Services, facilities and community involvement

To nominate local independent food shops, visitbbcgoodfoodshowscotland.com/glasgows-best-independent-food-shop or to nominate on Twitter or Instagram, just write the name and/or social media tag of the producer and then tag us @BBCGOODFOODSHOW with the following #GFSFoodShop

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For more information, please contact Katie-Jane Sullivan on 0203 405 4286 or email kj.sullivan@riverstreetevents.co.uk

Judges include:

Barney Desmazery – Senior Food Editor, BBC Good Food Magazine

Laura Biggs - Managing Director, BBC Good Food Shows

BBC Good Food Show Scotland Blogging Community

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