Great British Menu: What you need to know before season 20

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00:00The BBC have been hard at work in the kitchen,

00:03cooking up a fresh season of Great British Menu,

00:07and they're just about ready for service.

00:10Hi, I'm TV and tech writer, Matt Mohan-Hickson.

00:13This is all you need to know about the landmark

00:1520th series of The Great British Menu on BBC Two.

00:20There's been a bit of a change in the recipe

00:22for the judging room this year.

00:25Ed Gamble, he of Treaders on Pork fame

00:28and the Off Menu podcast is back,

00:30along with Tom Kerridge, the award-winning chef,

00:33who I'm sure all viewers will recognise at this point.

00:37However, Nisha Katona is not back for this year.

00:41So last year, the 2024 season was her last on the show.

00:46She has been replaced by Lorna McNeigh,

00:48who is probably a familiar face

00:51to people who regularly watch Great British Menu

00:54or watch it every year or binge-watched it in recent years,

00:58but she actually won the show in 2019.

01:00So she's back six years later to be one of the judges.

01:04And of course, Andy Oliver is yet again on hosting duty.

01:08So she's front of house,

01:12helping all throughout the competition.

01:15For its 20th series,

01:17the show is themed of Great Britains.

01:21So last year's was Olympics

01:24and previous years have been like waste

01:28and stuff like that.

01:29But for 2025, the theme is Great Britain.

01:32So the chefs will pick landmark monumental people

01:37from modern day or ancient times

01:41or throughout history in their regions

01:43and use them as inspiration for the dishes.

01:46You know, that's part of the Great British Menu

01:49is using the theme to come up

01:51with inventive dishes and courses

01:53and trying to get that into the banquet

01:55at the end of the competition.

01:58The show is once again split up into regional heats.

02:01So it starts with the Northwest

02:03and will continue across the British Isles.

02:06So there'll be Scotland, there'll be Wales,

02:08there'll be the Northeast,

02:09there'll be the Southwest of England and so on and so on

02:14over the next coming weeks.

02:16And then there'll be finals week

02:17and of course the banquet itself.

02:20So there's plenty to look forward to.

02:21There'll be four chefs every week in the regional heat

02:24who will compete and be whittled down

02:25until one makes it through to finals week from each region.

02:29So be one representative of each region

02:34there at finals week later in 2025.

02:38This year, as mentioned, the theme is Great Britains

02:41and there'll be three episodes a week

02:43airing on BBC Two and also on iPlayer.

02:47If you watch it on iPlayer,

02:48the episodes will drop all at once.

02:51So you have the choice of savouring them across the week

02:56until you get your next morsel

02:58or gorging yourself on a tasting menu

03:01and having them all in one sitting.

03:02But yeah, it's gonna be on TV for the foreseeable future,

03:07the next couple of weeks, couple of months.

03:09So plenty to look forward to

03:11and then we'll find out who made it

03:12onto the Great British menu for 2025.

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