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World Food Photography Awards 2025: All the winning shots

This year saw almost 10,000 entries from 70 different countries – here are the most delicious submissions

Liv Kelly
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Liv Kelly
Writer, Time Out Travel
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Sure, plenty of us will snap a pic of a bangin’ meal we had on holiday to share on Instagram, but that hardly compares to the striking, heartwarming and ridiculously appetising photographs submitted to this year’s World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Tenderstem® Bimi® Broccolini

2025’s panel of judges waded through almost 10,000 submissions from 70 different countries, and the winners of the 25 categories were announced at The Mall Galleries in London this week by chef and food writer Yotam Ottolenghi.  

A free exhibition of 185 finalist images will be on display there in London until May 25, but if you’re not going to make it, scroll on for Time Out’s 10 favourite snaps from the collection. Napkins at the ready. 

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Photograph: Xiaoling Li / World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Tenderstem® Bimi® Broccolini| The Elderly Having Delicious Food
World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Tenderstem® Bimi® Broccolini
Chang Jiangbin/World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Tenderstem® Bimi® Broccolini| Net Fish in Water Fields
World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Tenderstem® Bimi® Broccolini
Photograph: Đặng Hoài Anh/World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Tenderstem® Bimi® Broccolini| Banh Hoi Cake
World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Tenderstem® Bimi® Broccolini
Photograph: Lizzie Mayson/World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Tenderstem® Bimi® Broccolini| Delfina, A Pasta Granny
World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Tenderstem® Bimi® Broccolini
Photograph: Dorien Paymans/World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Tenderstem® Bimi® Broccolini| Flour Swirl
World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Tenderstem® Bimi® Broccolini
Photograph: Franck Tremblay/World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Tenderstem® Bimi® Broccolini| The Hand in the Vat
World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Tenderstem® Bimi® Broccolini
Photograph: Susan Lang/World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Tenderstem® Bimi® Broccolini| Hogging The Limelight
World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Tenderstem® Bimi® Broccolini
Photograph: Franck Tremblay/World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Tenderstem® Bimi® Broccolini| The Last Supper of Ana
World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Tenderstem® Bimi® Broccolini
Photograph: Costas Millas/World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Tenderstem® Bimi® Broccolini| Find Your Way To Me
World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Tenderstem® Bimi® Broccolini
Photograph: Maja Kowalczyk/World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Tenderstem® Bimi® Broccolini| Family
World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Tenderstem® Bimi® Broccolini
Photograph: Simon Détraz/World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Tenderstem® Bimi® Broccolini| Crispy Kale
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Photograph: Pieter D'Hoop/World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Tenderstem® Bimi® Broccolini| Laundry Day
World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Tenderstem® Bimi® Broccolini
Photograph: World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Tenderstem® Bimi® Broccolini| Ramadan Special Parantha Halwa
World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Tenderstem® Bimi® Broccolini
Photograph: Audrey Laferrière/World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Tenderstem® Bimi® Broccolini| Pavlova's Arabesque
World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Tenderstem® Bimi® Broccolini
Photograph: Ryan Kost/World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Tenderstem® Bimi® Broccolini| Buddhist Offerings

You can also peruse all the brilliant snaps at the online gallery

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