Great British Menu 2025 Thread 2 - From beige sludge to poncey nonsense, but is any of it banquetworthy?

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The drama continues…

It's a travesty that two of these will go home when you look at some of the chefs who got to the judges.

Exactly

Oh, he just said 'mouthfeel.' Forget everything I said before; the entire heat is ruined.

Go Sally!

I find Harry a bit scary. Go sally

That’s the highest scoring starter round so far

I think they are all cooking brill, actually... (Badum-tish!)

He looks like a historical villain and has a very, very serious energy. He'd be very good in a Shakespearean tragedy. (This is filmed in Stratford so he could pop down the road.)

Badum-fish… 😂

Think Diana theme with Welsh ingredients is an odd choice for this region.

Wow. Do you think all of the wild cards will go to these chefs? Lol

Might need a bit of whizz-bang to link to the brief.

For Thom, I almost want him to be inspired by a Python. He could have halibut from Life of Brian...

That cucumber looked so peculiar with all the little holes in

My thoughts

The pelican gun !!!!!!!

The artichoke truck has been this week

I literally can't get over how much Harry looks like he should be holding a pikestaff.

Eeek! When he pulled that out, it looked like a very large tampon! 😵‍💫

He left it at the door

Ahhhhh. Bacon makes everything better.

I’m not sure about this one

Why princess diana. ?

Sally's dish looks very impressive, she has definitely made the effort, but it has an odd vibe because it's centred around all the trappings that made Diana unhappy in life.

Wow great props

Ooh, I love the look of this Dr Johnson one.

Althorp is in Northamptonshire, so she is ‘of the region’, but…