Great British Menu is a BBC television series in which top British chefs compete for the chance to cook one course of a four course banquet. The first series banquet was for the Queen on her 80th birthday. The second series was to cook for the British Ambassador to France at the British Embassy in Paris. The third series was to prepare a banquet to be held at the Gherkin in London, hosted by Heston Blumenthal. In the fourth series, chefs competed to cook at a celebratory dinner for British troops returning from Afghanistan. The fifth series prize was to cook at a banquet hosted by the Prince of Wales for outstanding local food suppliers.
For the first six series, the show's regular timeslot had been 6:30pm from Monday to Friday. For the first four series and the early part of the fifth, slightly different scheduling applied in Scotland, where the show did not air on Thursday and the weekly final was broadcast on Saturday. The most recent series is broadcast at the later time of 7:30pm. The music to the series was written by Daniel Pemberton.
Read more about Great British Menu: Format, Series One (2006), Great British Christmas Menu, Series Two (2007), Series Three (2008), Series Four (2009), Series Five (2010), Series Six (2011), Series Seven (2012)
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