When you make everything from scratch, the results speak louder than words. This year, The Lucky Pig Butchery & Smokehouse brought home some of the highest honours in the country at the 2025 Melbourne Royal Australian Food Awards, including a Champion Trophy and two Best in Class wins.
It’s recognition for the care, patience and pride that goes into every product we make in Bentleigh.
🏆 Our Award-Winning Results
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Champion Trophy – Value-Added Meat: The Leaning Tower (Italian-style sausage)
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Best in Class – Gourmet Sausages: The Leaning Tower
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Best in Class – Cooked Meat: Free-Range Smoked Chicken Breast
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Gold Medal – Gourmet Sausages: The Leaning Tower
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Gold Medal – Cooked Meat: Free-Range Smoked Chicken Breast
Across hundreds of national entries, judges awarded Gold only to products that stood out for exceptional flavour, texture, and technique. To earn both Best in Class titles and the overall Champion Trophy confirms what our regulars already know: Lucky Pig quality stands tall on any stage.
🔥 What Makes a Champion
The Leaning Tower – Italian Style, Melbourne Made
Our signature Italian-style sausage blends Australian pork, craft ale, fennel, basil and a touch of chilli.
It’s bold but balanced, with a clean finish that lets the natural pork shine. We’ve refined this recipe over years, testing and tasting until the flavour hit that sweet spot between classic Italian inspiration and modern Melbourne character.
Free-Range Smoked Chicken Breast
Made from Bannockburn free-range chicken, each breast is brined, lightly smoked, and cooked in-house for perfect tenderness. The flavour is gentle yet rich, ideal for slicing through salads, sandwiches or pasta dishes. It’s simple food done properly — the kind that wins Gold because there’s nowhere to hide.
💬 Why It Matters
The Melbourne Royal Awards are judged blind by industry experts, chefs, and food scientists.
This year saw nearly 900 total entries across Australia, with 60 sausages and over 180 smallgoods competing for just a handful of Golds. To rise to the top of that field is a huge achievement for our small team.
For customers, it’s reassurance that when you buy from The Lucky Pig, you’re taking home products that meet — and beat — national standards of excellence.
🐖 Visit Us or Order Online
Taste the award-winning flavours for yourself.
📍 In-store: The Lucky Pig Butchery, 452 Centre Road, Bentleigh
🛒 Shop online: luckypig.com.au
We’re proud to represent Bentleigh and Victoria on the national stage — and we’ll keep chasing the next flavour that raises the bar again.
