Great British Menu is back

[MsNobodyAgain]

if anyone is interested.

BBC2, 7.30pm tonight.

The woman chef is really bugging me.

Had she never seen GBM before? Where was the humour, presentation and culinary skills? She seemed totally out of place.

Just catching up with this- luke is19????

Woman chef- really annoying.

She also looks like she needs a good wash. Yuk!

x-post. Just started watching also.

Doesn't she? Is the thing this year for chef's to be grubby? It's been a recurring theme....

ds's godfather did a junior masterchef thing when he was young. He looked a lot like Luke.

I feel ANCIENT watching Luke.

If the woman gets through, I'll eat my scabby slippers.

If I had slippers, i'd join you.

'Self taught' Mary-anne.

Please, do not let her get through!

Can we only have one through this week?

Though the way this thread is going it'll be the woman!

She's very patronising.

Nooooo- Ood- she is rubbish

Very disappointed in the Welsh mob,so far

But everyone we like doesn't get through :(

I want chicken now, but not with apple. Bleurgh!

Ood true.

There must be better chefs in Wales -surely they are not the best of the bunch?

Lukes looks like a tin of cat food.

None of it is funny.

Not a fake tomato/nose in sight.

His scores were really harsh-but not surprised.

Usually there's that Steven somebody who was on James Martins hospital food thing the other week, maybe he didn't enter this year?

They must have been short of Welsh entrants!

Good grief.

Given that this year's brief has been poorly interpreted by the chefs, what brief would you give them next year to get the show back on track?

I read that the restaurant James Sommerin (sp) worked in was recently forced to close, due to the recession i suppose. That maybe why he isn't competing. There are very few Michelin starred restaurants in Wales, think his was one of them.

And what happened to Bryn Williams?

Steven Terry! He would have fit in really well- he was usually a bit scruffy. and a bad loser.

This week's lot seem a bit amateur (though I'm sure they aren't). It's like masterchef- from the days when Lloyd grossman used to do it on a Sunday afternoon.

Oh, Pavlovian- good question. I think it needs to be about the food, and not endless gimmicks. It would be good to see it aimed at children, too, I think- creating food that a 5 year old will eat without complaining- that's a tough brief.

Can't think of any big events they could link to next year- the world cup??

Racing? Cheltenham or Ascot.

Or a dinner for critics and top chefs. No gimmicky stuff.

No horse meat though, MrsN

They did it for 'local hero' charity types the other year- I liked that idea- who gets to go to the RND banquet anyway? Recipients of the charity, or a bunch off over-paid comedians? (and Lenny Henry)