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BBC Two (GB)
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2006-04-10
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Top chefs from across the nation compete for the chance to cook a four-course banquet for a high-profile figure.
Next Episode is 'North West England: Starters and Fish' (Season 20 Episode 1) and airs on 28 Jan 2025 14:00 (CDT).
S19E27 - The Finals: Main Course
The chefs battle it out over who will cook the main course at the banquet. The guest judge is cyclist Dame Laura Kenny, the first British woman to win six Olympic titles. She joins Michelin-starred chef Tom Kerridge, restaurateur Nisha Katona and food podcaster and comedian Ed Gamble on the judging panel as they select the menu's main course.
This is the centrepiece of the banquet that all of the chefs desperately wants to cook – so competition in the kitchen is fierce! Each chef produces a dish that celebrates the Olympics or Paralympics, and with the most complex dishes of the week to prepare, the chefs are pushed to their limits. The judges have a tough task on their hands choosing just one chef to cook the main course at the banquet.
Air Date: 20 Mar 2024 15:00 (CDT)
S19E28 - The Finals: Dessert
The competition intensifies as the eight rivals compete to cook the final course, dessert, at the banquet. The guest judge is Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill, a heptathlete who became one of the most celebrated British competitors when she won gold at London 2012. She's joining Michelin-starred chef Tom Kerridge, restaurateur Nisha Katona and food podcaster and comedian Ed Gamble on the judging panel to select the menu's grand finale.
Desserts are famously tricky to pull off in the heat of the Great British Menu kitchen, so they have their work cut out. This is the last chance the chefs have of cooking a course at the banquet, so tensions are running high as the rivals battle it out for the final time.
Once a winner has been decided, one chef will be surprised by being asked to cook the banquet's canape. Will this be additional work for an existing winner or a chance at cooking at the banquet for a chef who hasn't won a course?
Air Date: 21 Mar 2024 15:00 (CDT)
S19E29 - Banquet Special
It's the final banquet, where the ultimate winner will be voted for by Olympians and Paralympians past and present and esteemed sporting guests at the British ambassador's residence in Paris.
The judges, chef Tom Kerridge, restaurateur Nisha Katona and food podcaster and comedian Ed Gamble, have chosen chefs, each from a different region of the country, to create a banquet celebrating the Olympics and Paralympics and to wish Team GB the very best of luck on their road to the Olympics in Paris 2024.
The chefs will need to overcome obstacles to wow the guests with a perfect mix of taste and fabulous presentation. Who will triumph and end the day as champion of champions?
Air Date: 22 Mar 2024 14:00 (CDT)
S20E1 - North West England: Starters and Fish
It's the 20th anniversary series of Great British Menu, and four chefs compete for north west England with canapes, starters and fish dishes celebrating great Britons of the past for a banquet at historic Blenheim Palace.
The dishes are judged by the Michelin-starred Paul Ainsworth and include a scouse pie, in honour of Anne Williams and her campaign to obtain justice for those who died in the Hillsborough disaster, and a poetically inspired Wordsworth confit trout with sauce barigoule, marigold oil, nasturtiums, and a butterfly tuile.
Air Date: 28 Jan 2025 14:00 (CDT)
S20E2 - North West England: Mains and Dessert
The three talented chefs from north west England are halfway through their heat, and the pressure is mounting. Once again, they each serve a unique take on the brief celebrating great Britons of the past for a banquet at historic Blenheim Palace.
The dishes are judged by veteran judge Paul Ainsworth and include a surprise main of three of Cilla Black's favourite things, liver, bacon and cabbage, a suffragette rosette for Emmeline Pankhurst using a black garlic and tofu ragu, and a strawberry edible garden dedicated to Liverpool's Strawberry Fields and John Lennon. But who will be leaving the competition?
Air Date: 29 Jan 2025 14:00 (CDT)
S20E3 - North West Judging
The two highest scoring chefs from north west England must go head-to-head and cook their six-course menus again.
They need to impress a panel of exacting judges: Michelin-starred chef Tom Kerridge, former Great British Menu Champion of Champions Lorna McNee, and comedian and food podcaster Ed Gamble. The guest judge is Margaret Aspinall, the remarkable campaigner for justice for her son and the 97 in the Hillsborough disaster in 1989. How will she judge dishes celebrating great Britons of the past?
Only one of the chefs will triumph and go through to represent north west England at the national finals.
Air Date: 30 Jan 2025 14:00 (CDT)