National Burger Awards 2024

Santa Maria were the proud category sponsors of rubs and spices - our market-leading ranges of Spices, Rubs, Tortilla Wraps and Sauces help you transform the ordinary into the extraordinary! We had the privilege of seeing some incredible burgers that used a range of our fantastic Santa Maria rubs and spices blends - including our Chipotle Paste, Kimchi Spice Mix & Chimichurri Rub - to create some amazing burgers & sides. A huge congratulations to all the finalists who competed this year as we saw some an incredibly fierce competition.

Our versatile range is ideal for making sauces, mayos, dressings, marinades, glazes, rubs and crusts. It can also lift your burger to the next level, giving your dish a subtle yet spicy twist.

National Burger Awards 2024

Transform the ordinary into the extraordinary

Burgers are as popular as ever, but in an increasingly competitive environment with pressure on every pound spent, it's more important than ever to stand out from the crowd and stay ahead of the competition. Santa Maria is the perfect burger partner to help your business to do just that.

The Winners

The winners of 2024

We are proud to announce that this years winners of the National Burger Awards & FreakShake Challenge were as follows:

National Burger of the Year - Celine Raeburn, Bleecker - Bacon Double

Burger Chef of the Year - Farbez Uddin, Bun & Sum - George Motz Oklahoma Smash

Plant-Based Burger of the Year - Hamish Macdonald, Fattso - Mi-so Hungry

Bloggers' Choice Award - Sam Bryant, Wholebeast - Aged Cheeseburger

Freakshake of the Year - Francesca Hudspeth, MeatCastles - Forbidden Fruit

Nashville Hot Burger

Santa Maria Rubs & Spices

Our market-leading range of sauces, rubs & spices and ingredients can help you transform your business, not just for your burgers but fries, chicken wings and sides. We can help create solutions that will help identify and realise opportunities to drive positive commercial performance.

Santa Maria Chipotle paste

Santa Maria Chipotle Paste

Our Santa Maria Chipotle Paste is hot & smoky. The chipotles are smoke-dried jalapeño peppers popular in Latin American cooking. A delicious blend of chipotle peppers, onions and tomatoes creates a rich paste that adds a smoky flavour to your dish. Perfect for marinading meat, mix with a mayo or ketchup to make a chipotle sauce giving it a smoky flavour.

Santa Maria Kimchi Spice Mix

Santa Maria Kimchi Spice Mix

The Holy Trinity of spice blends - garlic, ginger, chilli pepper. Add to red/white cabbage and leave the spice to do all the work for perfectly fermented Kimchi - no liquid required.
Perfect for kimchi as well as adding to slaws, spiking salsas, it can also be added to meat for that Korean flavour.

Santa Maria Chimichurri

Santa Maria Mexican Chimichurri Rub

Discover our hot, versatile South American style spice blend! Turns into a fresh sauce for your fried, grilled or roasted meat or veggies in a few minutes by simply adding oil and water. The sauce works perfectly as a dressing as well as a marinade too. Perfect for beef, it can be mixed through ground beef before forming patty or used to make a sauce/dressing. Can also be used on vegetables too.

Santa Maria BBQ Steakhouse Rub

Santa Maria BBQ Steakhouse Rub

With our BBQ Steakhouse Rub, it's easy to add BBQ flavours to your dish. The opportunities are endless with this seasoning. Use it as a rub before grilling or as a base for a delicious marinade. Perfect on any meat or vegetable to add a BBQ taste. This seasoning is so versatile, it can also be used as a chip seasoning, or simply mix it with water and oil and you have a BBQ Steakhouse Sauce. 

Santa Maria Kerala Curry Spice Mix

Santa Maria Kerala Curry Spice Mix

Made from an aromatic blend of many spices, this curry spice mix combines the robust, smoky flavours of cumin and fenugreek with undertones of paprika and coriander. It works especially well with chicken and seafood and is also delicious with vegetables. It can also be added to a sauce to give it a Kerala kick! Perfect for lamb and chicken, can also be mixed with a yoghurt or mayo to make a sauce or dust on fries
for ‘Kerala Fries’.

National Burger Awards Highlights

National Burger Awards Highlights 2023

As the category sponsor for Rub & Spices it was amazing to see our fantastic Santa Maria products used in such awesome and tasty ways. We saw so many creative ways to lift a burger. It was a fantastic day and we loved being a part of it! 

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