THE Great British Menu has welcomed some of the nation’s top chefs to win the chance to serve at a four-course banquet.
The chefs have been creating dishes that reflect 100 Years of Great British Broadcasting and fans are now keen to know where the 2022 feast will be held.
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Where does the Great British Menu banquet take place and who will be there?
BBC’s Great British Menu is coming to an end with a team of passionate chefs battling it out to serve up their food at the famous banquet.
The 2022 theme is ‘100 Years of Great British Broadcasting’ after the first-ever BBC Radio broadcast in 1922.
The banquet will be at Alexandra Palace in London and attended by special guests from TV and radio.
The judges of this 17th series – Tom Kerridge, Nisha Katona and comedian Ed Gamble – will also be there, along with host Andi Oliver.
Who will be cooking in the final?
At the moment there are still eight chefs left in the competition hoping to make it to the banquet.
The finalists left are:
- Sally Abe is from Mansfield in Nottingham and is the chef consultant at The Pem restaurant in the Conrad London St James Hotel.
- Nathan Davies is back in the GBM kitchen having missed out on the banquet in 2021 despite being the second highest scoring chef EVER in the competition.
- Olivia Barry is from the Adelina Yard restaurant in Bristol. Influenced by her Italian heritage, she opened the restaurant with her husband Jamie Randall in 2015.
- Essex lad Spencer Metzger comes fresh to the competition from a promotion to head chef at The Ritz. He first entered the kitchen at 15-years-old on a work experience placement.
- Sam Lomas is a 26-year-old from Macclesfield and is the head chef at Glebe House in Devon.
- Chris McClurg worked with veteran chef Paul Ainsworth for over 10 years, and is now Chef de Cuisine at No6. Last time he appeared on the show, three of his four dishes came second to the winners in Finals week.
- Luke French and his wife, Stacey, own Jöro which serves clean, pure flavours with a Nordic/Japanese inflection. Shortly after opening came a Michelin Plate, 3 AA Rosettes and placing 32nd in the National Restaurant Awards.
- Competitive chef Adam Handling is back in the GBM kitchen once more and this time with even more drive and determination to hit the brief and showcase his unique style of cooking.
The Great British Menu final is set to air on BBC Two this Friday (April 1, 2022) at 7.30pm.
There is no cash prize for the Great British Menu winner.
However, the winner of the 2022 show does get the opportunity to cook for some of Britain’s biggest names in the food and entertainment industry, at the big banquet.
You can catch up with past episodes on the BBC iPlayer.