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…

I love this idea

They could just keep their usual levels of maintenance - that would kill off most of the toys!

Yeah, it might have been a nice stew, but it looked a bit stodgy/ similar textures.

That’s a lot of little bowls

Michael and Andi have just conducted a time and motion study on Ahmed and found him wanting.

Fiddly. Lots of faffing. Not going to fly in the banquet environment, with other chefs doing their thing.....

Overall I think Ahmed has had a bit of a disaster. And he thinks his venison is over, looked under to me

Calum does appear to be making his dish about the brief, and not just using props.

Callum is in a different class

Nasturtium leaves!!

It's very clever and thoughtful. Reminds me of that really good series when they did science and innovation.

Again none of these scream banquet

Now that looks pretty, and the beef is how I like it. 😀

Ah so that’s why Michael isn’t wearing his white coat now!

Hmm, Blenheim Palace might have to have a look at its fire insurance.

What did I miss? Least he's not wearing them glasses again.

Next round Minal will do Fred Trueman who is famous for his love of, ummm, let's go for Ferrero Rocher.

Or Viennetta…

Didn't he score his group highly last year and they were slated when judged? Might have been someone else....

Forage

Oh no. Foraged from the public park…

Evening.

Can't remember everyone but Kirk was in Michael's group last year and he won the whole thing. However, I do remember Michael raving about some of his dishes and the judges not considering them quite so 10-worthy.

There was definitely one lot who got madly high scores during the week and bombed with the judges at the end

I would love curtains from andies dress. Only the dark fabric

Hang on. If someone served me a pudding inspired by The Mighty Atom I would be expecting a roly-poly.