Great British Menu 2025 Klaxon!

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Starting Tuesday at 8pm!

Is this like masterchef in format? I've been wanting to try it but never get around to it, but now that old gregg has gone, I need something new

A bit I guess - they have a theme for the year, the chefs compete by regions in groups of 4, they all have to do a canapé type thing, a starter and a fish course for a judge chef, then the one with the lowest score leaves and the rest cook their mains, pre-dessert and dessert. The lowest scoring one after that goes home and the last two cook for another set of judges which usually includes a celeb from their region. The one with the highest score goes on to compete against the winners from the other regions. Finally the judges choose a winning chef for each course and those chefs cook at a banquet.

Not a hint of Gregggg anywhere along the line, the fabulous Andi Oliver is the main presenter throughout

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Fab. I love this.

Thank you for the heads up.

I'm in! Thanks for the thread

Whoop!! Thank you!!

Thank you, I will be sat 🤭😊

I love GBM. Andi Oliver is wonderful, and it always amuses me to see Ed Gamble behaving like the well brought up young man he is, and standing up for lady guests and using his napkin properly and putting people at ease....🤣

Just seen that Nisha Katona has been replaced on the judging panel by Lorna McNee, really looking forward to seeing how she does as a judge instead of in the kitchen.

Looks like the theme is UK heroes, so lots of scope for regional specialities.

Oooo I like Lorna be interesting to see how she is on the other side.

'Great Britons' is the theme, and supposed to be from the chefs area, so I suppose we could get multiple Tom Jones dishes in wales and Robbie Burns in Scotland but not so many repeats across the regions, unless they all do the Queen.

I found ye!!!! Here for all of it of course

I love the GMB even more than MasterChef. The brief this year sounds interesting. It will be interesting to see Lorna as a judge. I liked her as a chef but she seemed to have a fairly subdued personality.

Excited for tonight

Not long to go!

Here we goooo

Yay! This should be good

Evening all

I really like the idea behind this series and the banquet sounds like a proper banquet. But I get we get some Great British Icons who are a bit of a stretch. Sort of Boudicaa, William Shakespeare ....... Bobby Crush.

Let’s see who’s in the kitchen - all newcomers!

I roasted a chicken for dinner so am feeling particularly smug and judgy tonight

Excited to see how they shoehorn in the theme.

How old is she if she's the youngest

I thought the bun guy had the look of a forager. Looks like the English cousin of Bench Seating Guy from Your Home Made Perfect.

Glad there’s a woman in the kitchen as well

Lady chef is sooo pretty.
Hope she does well

I'm here for your comments!! 🤣