Great British Christmas Menu (S2020E03) – Watch Online Season 2020 Episode 03

Great British Christmas Menu – Season 2020 Episode 03

The competition heats up as eight chefs, all former winners of the Great British Menu, compete to create fish and main courses for an extra special festive feast in honour of some of the heroes of this year’s pandemic. Former judge Andi Oliver hosts.

For this episode, not one but two special guest chefs join the lineup. Multi-Michelin starred chefs Jason Atherton and Tom Aikens, both former winners and judges on Great British Menu, are putting their reputations on the line and competing again against some of the UK’s best young chefs.

The fish and main courses are the heart of any Great British Menu banquet, and with so many amazing chefs taking part, expect opulence, luxury and incredible, mouth-watering food. For the fish course, there’s spectacular salmon and a huge turbot, ‘the King of the Sea’, cooked in a giant antique copper pan known as a turbot kettle. For the main course, there’s venison and a roast that combines 12 different birds!

And the chefs won’t just be cooking; they’ll also be judging each other! Four chefs will cook, then the other four will taste and score their dishes in a blind tasting. Then the roles will be reversed. Expect incredible cooking, tough criticism and surprising scores.

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Great British Menu Show Summary

Great British Menu is a BBC television series in which top British chefs compete for the chance to cook one course of a four course banquet.

Series one and two were presented by Jennie Bond, the former BBC Royal correspondent, whereby each week, two chefs from a region of the UK create a menu. In series three and four, both narrated by Bond but with no presenter, three chefs from a region of the UK create a menu; only the two with the best scores went through to the Friday judging. In series five and six, the fifth narrated by Bond while the sixth is narrated by Wendy Lloyd, three chefs from a region of the UK create a menu, with in kitchen judging undertaken by a past contestant chef; only the two with the best scores go through to the Friday judging.

In each series, the Friday show is when chefs present all courses of their menu to a judging panel, tasted and judged by Matthew Fort, Prue Leith and Oliver Peyton. One chef each week goes through to the final, where the judges taste the dishes again and award them marks out of ten. The three dishes that have scored the highest for each course are then put to the public vote.

During the first series, it was decided that a chef could only win one course overall, therefore any chef who won the public vote for a particular course was then eliminated from any subsequent courses they had been shortlisted for. As the results for all four courses were announced on the same day, some chefs were eliminated under this rule. During series two, this rule was dropped, as highlighted by Mark Hix winning both the main course and dessert.

On 28 October 2016, it was confirmed that Prue Leith was leaving the show and would be replaced by Andi Oliver for series 12 in 2017.

On 1 October 2019, Susan Calman was announced as the new presenter for series 15. Filming took place in Stratford-upon-Avon and was completed in November 2019. The show will be broadcast in Spring 2020.

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