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  • Single life how I make hamburger helper.

  • For the past six months my team and I been all over the country checking out the best of your restaurant nominations

  • Now my nationwide competition continues this time to find the best off British

  • British wrestling's is all about pong cocktails and black bars Gator

  • But today the restaurants all over the UK cooking the most amazing delicious modern British food

  • Everybody's freshness of using the finest ingredients. We have some of the best meat fish and vegetables on the planet

  • There's no excuse not to cook with it

  • You nominated thousands of British restaurants and along with my best restaurant team

  • I put them under extreme scrutiny and chose my two favorites to do battle for place in the semi-finals

  • from deepest Kent is a tiny but elegant michelin-starred restaurant the wet foul see

  • It's always gotta be that same passion if you like

  • enjoy from the first time you may be

  • There going head-to-head with the milestone in Sheffield on the wall crafts on very last as it's going

  • It's about your people Yorkshire chefs producing Yorkshire food

  • We're about to see the Battle of Britain because the West house and the milestone must take on three extraordinary challenges

  • The first is a progressions worst nightmare 30 hungry customers will arrive and order all at once

  • First stop the milestone in Sheffield

  • I'm actually standing on what used to be called pimps corner in the old red-light district

  • Now this is amazing location for a fantastic restaurant

  • It's run by four local lads

  • Front of house are the owners mark and Matt who's some every penny into this business one salmon one black put on an order

  • The kitchen is headed by young guns Simon and James

  • Simon cage fighter

  • No one fucks with you or service dude, I only up there these guys are real

  • They graft us you can see that just from the minute you shake their hands. It's solid like a plate of Sheffield steel. I

  • Love the fact that they've made their name by breaking all the rules serving up hearty organic dishes

  • Like roll pig's head and Trotter sausages and what's that? There are pigs that we have

  • It's a farm just outside Shepherd right Bri your own pigs. And yes the menu. Yeah

  • We encourage customers to actually go out there and get their hands dirty to start foraging for us. Well swap it for bear

  • Why no one meal?

  • It's me mum's allotment

  • And she's pick them all by hands for you guys

  • In just three years the milestone of stone Sheffield restaurant scene and the locals love it

  • I'll go for the Nestle

  • Naughty/nice made on the nettle. Yaki. There's a lot of metal in there isn't yeah. The nock is delicious

  • Really good, indeed. I think what I like more than anything is the fact that it's very seasonal very nice

  • I thought that food was easily of a mission star standard today. You've got a chance to become the best of British

  • Show-off. I mean really sure off people used to Delhi because of move and the did you used to think of a cocky little shit

  • But I'm passionate I'm dedicated and I've got the drive to take it further

  • Good because my diners are expecting something incredible and they will need to be served two courses in just two hours

  • This is a young dynamic restaurant that's going places give that experience to my 30 diners today and they'll be leaving on cloud nine

  • Any questions don't hesitate to ask

  • it's just

  • It's just a little bit quick

  • the starters include black pudding with Bloody Mary

  • cucumber and gin suit with cured salmon and the pea panna cotta

  • Rather than choose the more adventurous options most diners are sticking to the traditional fare

  • It's good that there's such a popular choice on the menu, but the punters might not want it once they've been served this

  • Seemed to be a lot of like wouldn't come out the kitchen popular today

  • Yeah, but I already started off with nothing as well. Did not anyone tell me that beforehand or not? No, no

  • Forgive in a way black pudding as a canopy. Yeah, it should've said it before it took the orders

  • There's so much by putting going out. Yeah, there you go. First. Of course you black pudding black pudding?

  • I don't eat pudding twice with Sheffield people. Is it like really heavy initiative as well?

  • They're like they'll like that you need people and that's not a small slice of black pudding. Is it the man-sized one?

  • I wasn't too keen on the black, but it was really nice. I suppose is too much for me. It's good

  • It's on to the mains Simon's ambitious food includes turbot Poston red wine. Nettle naki and pan-fried. Rabbit loin with pig tail cannelloni

  • In all fairness chair all in yeah, yeah

  • Simon has made the unusual decision to operate this service like a banquet instead of staggering the dishes

  • He's preparing all the main courses at the same time

  • So it's gonna go everything the way the problem now is that Simon has all the rabbit dish is ready

  • But the other main courses are lagging behind and food can't leave the past until the order for the whole table is

  • Cooked as it sits in the window and dries out. I'm just getting nervous. I don't want a fruit Korea back saying it's dry

  • We've got one hour ten minutes left. So if you could just do one table at a time, you'll see a difference equality

  • It's not the fastest restaurant in Britain and for the best restaurant not good enough to house

  • 30 diners two courses only so stagger that like a normal

  • It's a shame. It's just sat there

  • disintegrating under those lights when it should be in front of the customer again that magic

  • These are my worst fears come true when food sits too long in the past it gets cold

  • It gets dry. It gets sent back to trying to say tell me it's not a banquet

  • Everyone's got it in their mind that we're gonna treat this today like a bang forever

  • fucking shame

  • Rabbit line to play it's not hot

  • Can't play have another ramble. I know now Simon's in trouble. There's no rabbit loin left. So thank him fast

  • He substitutes it with rabbit leg

  • But he's starting from scratch and the leg takes longer to cook than the loin. So we saw one portion of rabbit

  • It's coming up. Now. You guys want to explain that to the customer? I just

  • Having tried and failed twice Matt the owner wants to make amends

  • Can I get you know only cuz these days we turn off cos penis has been I submit up to scratch a bit of fish

  • It's let down what was otherwise a great service

  • Absolutely immense no complaint one little tiny bit of service just got his

  • stars by who's five

  • mains all refine hotel

  • that 1.1 table

  • Most of the diner's lead happy, but I've got concerns

  • Thank you, right how do you feel wholly healthy some mistakes made

  • Whose decision was it to serve my diners as a banquet

  • They won't mind what all the text came on. I made a decision because all of them were having starters

  • Yeah, so I was gonna try and sweep the room

  • Yep said one course second course third course that was a big mistake for me today for every 30 seconds that food is sat there

  • Is going down and down and down and down in standard

  • But you've got a dream setup because your customers are sat two meters away from your stove

  • And it was such a shame because then food came back because it wasn't hot enough

  • The good news is the customers loved the food and that's what I'm trying to say

  • You're on the verge of just really popping out there. You really your own pinks and you make your fresh bread twice a day

  • So you bust your balls to create that food and when it sits there and they're not benefiting god

  • I could scream you're doing yourselves an injustice and that responsibilities on your shoulder sign because you're the head chef. No, and I know

  • You can do a lot better than what you did today

  • Thank you

  • We're always looking to improve lessons learned

  • Yeah, young ambitious want to be the best we could look at what mistakes were did and not allow them to happen again?

  • It's the British heat of my nationwide restaurant competition and a squad of hungry diners are about to descend on my second competitor

  • From thousands of your nominations. I've chosen the West house from bidden done in Kent

  • How are you?

  • Know why couldn't see - right. Where is it beeping away in the kitchen?

  • I met grain 15 years ago when he worked next door to my first London restaurant

  • Even then he showed real flair

  • The idea is to build issues around the century ingredient and you know

  • Not the funny around with it so much not Chuck too many other things on the plate and try and enhance, you know

  • Bring out the flavors Graham hasn't always been a chef

  • He started out as a drummer for 80s hair rockers Yaya

  • No, I've never heard of them either

  • He still has some of the hair but happily not the shorts luckily I've done that for long

  • So on various tours and albums and also doctor say the world and a lot of restaurants as well, which is quite good

  • 17 years ago gran gave up rock and roll to follow his dream of becoming a chef working on the string of top London restaurants

  • Then eight years ago, he took a huge risk. He moved his family to the Kent countryside and opened up the west house

  • 18 months after opening he won his first Wishing Star

  • That's not bad for a drummer. And when you won the mission style were you're on your own in the kitchen Wow

  • It's a one-man band back to play the drums again

  • Everything about this family restaurant is understated old English charm

  • Gran's parlour, Jacky works front of house with their children Jake and Jess who's in charge

  • Happy been in charge

  • Yeah

  • Beginning. I didn't know what I was doing and now eight years on it's not as bad as it was

  • But I didn't like it first. No, I'll start off with the ham and eggs. It's very very clean

  • Really nice flavors popular on the menu. Yeah. Yeah very I can imagine?

  • Why what I like most about West House is the fact that Graham is a is a true chef

  • He cooks on the heart nine two frills. He's into flavor and it shows

  • This quaint English restaurant is about to be severely tested because my diners will soon be arriving and ordering all at the same time

  • My worst fear is he'll go

  • So basically, I'm just expecting the whole family to put in an amazing performance today to pull this one off

  • Just like the milestone they have just two hours to serve everyone this little 11:00 table restaurant is gonna be packed

  • You have a mission start so myself and my diners are expecting experience there

  • Three and up to two is now as soon as you can get the first table you see you both ready to order

  • That looks like a type of control

  • Is that

  • That's one one ham hock and one Makarov is

  • Climb tickets are confusing but the food coming out of the kitchen is simply perfect

  • Starters include warm smoked haddock Apache Oh with bacon dressing and P shoes. And that delicious ham hop with scotch egg and black pudding

  • how's the

  • Weirdos gonna be busy today. It's gonna be a theatre now, so you're grilling knocking as well as the first one for me

  • I've never seen that before just took color off then it gets topped over the artichokes for mains

  • There's a choice of roast chicken with herb gnocchi

  • grill with Sam fire on lamb with sweetbreads

  • Has taken

  • Why would you stumble all over like that?

  • I'm filing the ordering system impossible to fathom and Jackie's handwriting is more like a doctor's than a Maitre D' no one can read it

  • I

  • rewrote the ticket out and

  • Then put that up as well and he'd already sent it was my fault

  • I left it on there because it was the bit couldnt understand my writing so

  • So, thank you Stu fucking day to do it. Okay table send two chicken

  • Two lamb

  • Jackie's supposed to be in control of front-of-house, but it doesn't feel like it something's not right

  • There about 40 minutes and aside from their drinks order we haven't seen the staff going to get to take any orders for food

  • There's five tables in there. There's some ham that they're all taken. Try it

  • Just fish out what's orders to get he's telling you when to take your orders at the moment. Yeah. Yeah, bring it through freeze

  • I've been knowing I'm taking three. Yeah, you tell them when to take the orders, right? That's right

  • It's people that already eaten one course

  • I think at least so it's scooping that we might get us what we would like to order a soon samples

  • They're watching start something cause we've been served and yet the end of the order taken

  • Yeah, you wouldn't owe me a 30 in the restaurant the ones with you

  • So the end that they want to take her let alone just see it a little bit

  • and also the tip of that

  • the diamonds controlled by the kitchen, so

  • They're running less. They can't do anything unless the kitchen says so which is just crazy. They need to function

  • Control freak it's not control freak. He's trying to stay focused. I'm sorry it is because you're like the dining room

  • So that's your team

  • Control freak. All right. I've never seen anything. So stupid in all my life chefs. Don't tell waiters went to take an order

  • That's the responsibility of the dining room to give it to the chef. He's trying to control fucking everything

  • There's been down to the main courses as well

  • No, not yet. No, yeah

  • Eight months in this kitchen working a little side you and you can't do a main course yet

  • I think is you don't want to tell them it you know that no, so I mean

  • No, there's a lot to do over there. Sorry about the delay for these starters. Just over an hour. How are they?

  • Waiting far too long and drinks we ordered some drinks before they

  • Ate

  • Before we started taking the order and nothing said the tailor your loss

  • Drinks on through

  • They're not lying, let's put that way they just say they've ordered drinks and nothing's happened

  • To get control back to the front of house. I can see a solution if you'd like it different I can get that for you

  • Okay

  • Right. Yeah Graham's son. Jake is on top of things. Just be a few minutes just really great doing it for you

  • Yeah, would you be best learning Italian?

  • You seen anyone actually knows?

  • Has not been disparaging tomorrow, have you seem to know what you're doing

  • Sort of I wanted to do it this morning his way and she's got a little baby seem to be you seem to know

  • Yeah, I miss there must be a lot of smoother if I saw you running here

  • Tough stuff

  • Couldn't get up. The food was actually delicious

  • I think the only thing that wasn't really up to standard was the disservice it was worth away there. That's that's a good thing

  • Oh fuck that

  • My diners have no complaints about the food because the cooking is inspiring but Graham is tripping up the service and he has to understand

  • this

  • Okay is the issue

  • Unfortunately

  • Okay, the service is nowhere near to the standard of food

  • you left two tables, you know sat there for over an hour before we even took their order and

  • the dining room felt

  • Short-staffed food sent to the same table twice that starts already gone Jackie across the two hours

  • You didn't give me the impression that you were

  • Enjoying it as much you should off. Are you a hundred percent happy?

  • Running that dyeing room on a normal day. Yeah all day. But today I was a bit, you know panicking

  • Yeah, Jay, you were the one shining light out there and why you're not at the helm

  • Relieving the pressure from your mother and working closely with your father. I'll never know you've sort of castrated the dyeing room

  • Because you're controlling them you've got to cut

  • Some of the control freak in you and allow them to do their job and you'll be surprised at the results

  • I'm telling you because I want this place to really succeed in this competition. Why because the food is beautiful

  • Well then

  • It's like any any criticism you you take it on building and feel very throw endure and

  • React so I mean listen listen food for full

  • I'm looking for the best restaurant not the best chef and

  • Service is crucial today

  • Customers are prepared to wait, but they're not prepared to wait for now to get their order taken. No chance

  • By pushing both freshmen to extremes I've uncovered the areas they need to improve on

  • Now I've invited them both to London for a progress report

  • But the restaurants haven't got a clue that they face one more

  • test

  • without telling them I sent in my secret diners because I really want to find out exactly what happens when the team's don't know they're

  • under scrutiny

  • I've sent in top food critic Simon Davis with instructions to be as difficult as possible

  • Something that comes quite naturally to him

  • The teams don't know that I've been spying on them. First to face. The music is the milestone. I

  • Wanted to make sure that you weren't as rolling out the red carpet for me

  • I had a secret diner in there and this is what he saw

  • We'll grab some lunch we just just grab a seat. Okay, great. I love that fact you do dripping

  • Such a good idea the dripping, you know your roast and then the dripping you'd have throughout the week spread on the bread I

  • Favored bogus

  • Cheap cheerful slightly

  • Nostalgic, really nice and look how happy yeah customer sounds really good. All right, this is ox tongue corned beef

  • Nowhere near seasoned do not very bland. That's quite disappointing actually

  • It's such a shame because the the diner shut up Wow xxx it

  • And then bang ah shit when you've got the balls to put corned beef and oxen on a plate

  • That's simply it has to be seasoned perfectly. I've actually changed already because we've had the comment card that night

  • It was essentially a lack of seasoning, yeah. Yeah, you know, thanks a lot

  • I really I wasn't expecting that. I know how perfect I'm perfect

  • I have to pay for I'd like to pay for assure you he was know I'd like to pay for

  • Really they won't let us pay

  • No charge nice gesture gives no reason to complain about it. I love the way he was so patient and so polite really play

  • On two separate occasions. We've seen some really

  • succinct

  • very focused ability in the kitchen lid very well steals food, and then you get things like these this bowl of chips you

  • know

  • Perhaps not even place of the claims we could call ourselves gastropubs and sell photo chips enough

  • useless

  • hmm burnt chips

  • It's a simple

  • Stupid mistake that shouldn't really happen ever have a word with Chef. There's a piece of shit chef around

  • Well, I want to talk to you about something I'm talking about that look at that would you eat that

  • Would you eat that no, so why should I eat it? Well, no, I want to talk to chef

  • Yeah, I'd love to see all right hi there brilliant well they've gone now, but I wanted to torture I

  • Just wondered why you loud that Chef to go out when it was burnt in there

  • Sounds like you're trying to do quite a lot up 30 level to

  • Use issues like you better get back up there, but thanks for coming down. All right. Bye I

  • Thought you were gonna blow a gasket to be honest. I could cry I could cry a chip goes out like it's

  • on the back of an ass end of a

  • Takeaway van there's flashes of brilliance in there and it works in such a magical way and that you bust your balls

  • Fresh bread ruin Peaks cooking school. Yeah slow down and

  • focus on what you've got

  • The chips will burn the shunt of in Vern they should have been absolutely fine. They should have been fantastic

  • The guy should have been picking them out at the ball saying my god, these are fucking amazing chips

  • I've seen a lot of problems that we do need to solve

  • But we've also seen a lot of strengths that we know we have got

  • So as long as we bring everything together tiny, oh, I think we can improve and we can make things better than the ever happened

  • Graham and his family team from the West house are about to discover that have been spying on them. I

  • Sent in undercover diner Sarah dirt and Robertson. She's a cookie writer and a food consultant

  • Well, I sent my 30 diners into the West House mom Jackee confused everyone with her ordering system have things improved since

  • Unknown to all four of you. He's actually been under two tests because after I left I sent in a secret diner

  • And here's what they saw. Do you make the bread here?

  • Who the chef he make

  • Special

  • He seems quite proud of his father and what they do because he talks back and with great affection

  • I kind of feel like I'm sitting in the family kitchen

  • It's made it all a lot more personal actually, really good lovely star Oh

  • What is this again foie gras terrine, I think I ordered a mackerel oh

  • That's okay I've got mad for a second

  • They're not busy, how could you confuse the two tables

  • Should remember what's going on

  • Damn

  • Watching your food being put down on a table in front of you. It's like eating secondhand foods whenever that

  • Happens again, if we goes back into the kitchen, I forgot that

  • How do you feel watching that I?

  • Could go and write those tickets for you now and show you the correct procedure and what ways could be so is easy for you

  • But do me a favor do that because I've been trying to do that for about eight years

  • But I get ignored but he listened to you

  • The

  • Interesting thing is they didn't ask me how I wanted the lamb done. So I'm afraid when it arrives I may discover

  • I've got a problem with it. Oh

  • Thank you, I'm sorry to be paid but I didn't realize that the lamb came so pink

  • Why'd it be possible to have one better Dungy? I just go see. Thank you

  • Surely you must ask a customer

  • medium pink well-done

  • No, that's their prerogative

  • It's not this old 1980s Shetland tally what I say goes and it saves the frustration, doesn't it?

  • It saves that dish being done twice. Oh

  • Thank you

  • So they brought two completely new main courses

  • other than bringing back the half call first pay they brought by an entirely new main course that

  • Is very impressive

  • great recovery

  • Wonderful recovery the fact that you took time and then to new main courses

  • Yeah, apparently out of the kitchen, but you did it without any hassle. I left a really nice impression

  • Despite the fact that they actually ended up cooking full moon courses. They've only charged for one inch so it's 40 is

  • Clearly

  • experience

  • phenomenal food delicious value-for-money spot-on

  • I want to come back here because it felt like they'll come into your house

  • If you get up to the speed with a modern day system of taking tickets

  • It doesn't need to be that pressurized putting those dishes down. So we have to look at the disorganization. That's it

  • Came straight back in the kitchen and told Graham what done I

  • remember, oh, it got seed that done it, you know because

  • Thirteen eight years. I've never made that mistake before it would be fantastic to sit there

  • See that secret footage and there be absolutely not a single thing wrong

  • See there hate each other on the back and all leave but life's not really like that

  • Is it?

  • Graham's putting a brave face on things

  • But he must realize he's got a lot of work to do if he's gonna win this competition. I

  • Put both teams through the ringer to test their skills as chefs and restaurant tours now, it's their last chance to prove themselves

  • To earn a place in the semi-finals they've got to cook one exceptional dish something worthy of a place on my three Michelin star menu

  • I'd be alive slept well last like just running everything through over and over and over in here

  • It's just all the pre-match nerves and then there's a pre-match tension

  • What Dornan never been in a place qualities?

  • It's a mixture of excitement. And nurse. I want to win more than anything gotta get everything. Absolutely, right?

  • So if we always on this really good luck

  • To earn the honor of representing British cuisine in the semi-finals their dish must be nothing less than exceptional

  • This is the Battle of Britain and for me to the best restaurants are going head-to-head for the very first time

  • There's no undercover footage. There's no coach. It's just you on a plate. It's 20 stunning dishes, and that is it

  • Make sure as you go through the semi-final good luck

  • I've asked them to create their dishes using a classic British ingredient venison

  • These are two amazing westerns come head to head and for me the best of British always excites me more many other category

  • I'm expecting crow flavors great balance and phenomenal fireworks

  • I've invited 20 esteemed guests to judge. Both teams creations the diners include Elizabeth Carter editor of The Good Food Guide an

  • Award-winning British farmer Wilfred and Manuel Jones and the front of house teams from both westerns are here, too

  • so in terms of nervousness scouts is my

  • Chance to prove ourselves another four covers table to west allis for venison loin

  • Grams divides the dish worthy of his mission and starts status

  • He's using venison loin

  • So with onion marmalade potatoes?

  • Pickled cherries and finished with crispy bacon and venison liver. It's hard to care because the hunters breakfast they called it

  • Mitchell doesn't think this bar it's got great flavor, you know, but you need to keep it nice being by some rare

  • It's a technical dish with the potential for disaster

  • Especially if Graham's control-freak curry prevents sous-chef Ben from supporting him. I know we like you will let anyone do anything

  • What are you actually doing today? Apart from making grantee? Are you actually participating in the cooking?

  • The garnishing bacon or tears onion marmalade cherries

  • I

  • Know you love taking your time when you put these dishes together. It's actually one out for 20 not one hour per dish

  • Yeah, just in case cuz nobody like when you get buried away, there's no pulling you bang out there is there

  • My face of grain is that the food is so complex. It's four five elements

  • So he just needs offload and open up and bring been with him to get that dish. Absolutely. Perfect

  • So for more venison loin away now ground, please West nails on Table two

  • Please been send one table clean your shit down. Send the next table to your shit down here

  • What blue pen I'm gonna leave these player by the liver

  • Ian

  • Graham delegating at last but with time on his hands. He started cooking the delicate venison liver too early

  • That liver is your danger zone. You know that grain. I don't danger zone

  • How'd you want to serve it? I want to show it rare rare so you cook it rare here

  • It goes out there pink when it sits there. It's firmus. Fuck you understand

  • So when he's two thirds of the plate dressing you're happy have the conversation fire at the last moment

  • Tell me when I'm gonna deliver. Yeah. Yep. You ready? Yeah, go for it

  • Through limousine. Yeah, yeah

  • Then crunch down those cherry stems upper place

  • They look fantastic. Absolutely. Fantastic. No two ways about it. Go please table to do more venison

  • We're away now, please Graham we chef table for please

  • Thank you working with the team at the moment

  • And then he scrapes things get involved with stuff on the past allowing me to cook the liver of things last minute

  • Graham's happy with these food, but will the diners agree?

  • It smells awesome that's really lovely

  • Flavors are all there. I mean exactly what we always getting the restaurant. I'm very proud of him. It's good dish

  • Getting nearly

  • Ground dish has set the bar seriously high to being with a chance of winning

  • The milestone lad really have a battle on their hands. So on order four covers Table six milestone for venison, Wellington. Yes chef

  • Thank you big competition day going head-to-head against the mission Saracen. Yeah, you got no cooking school today. No downstairs. No upstairs

  • No one kitchen 20 dinars no excuses. What's the chances? I'm optimistic. Oh, yeah, nothing we're gonna do it

  • I was a nebula Michelin star. We haven't sir so the underdogs, but if we can do this then they'll be amazing

  • Hey, Chad, Simon is pulling out all the stops with a bull's initial roast venison loin and a haunch of venison and nettle Wellington

  • So with beetroot fondant watercress puree and braised lettuce

  • This could be the dish my career if all goes well, then it could change things for a drastically how far off Simon six minutes

  • Yeah

  • Simon's dish requires perfect timing something he messed up when he fed my coach diners

  • I'd rather keep the customers waiting there for five minutes. Yeah, the server beetroot. That's not good proper

  • Yeah, there's no room for mistakes. All six elements of this dish must be cooked to perfection for venison up to the past now

  • Guys make every plate count. Yeah

  • So this yeah go please but in his haste to get the food out Simon has made a terrible schoolboy error

  • I'm fucked up Joey the point you should know that by now get me Rob. Please urgently let's go

  • That's the bracelet is that we've got off the main go it's fine. It's not on there now. They haven't finished it

  • They're not way to a go, please. Yeah. Yeah, just apologize quickly. Thank you

  • Just behind this a braised baby gem lettuce a

  • More experienced chef will recover from a mistake like this quickly, but Simon's rattled

  • Miss stay off the play. I saw him pissed up and pissed up to myself

  • Look, I mean is that it's done? Yeah

  • Come on, let's go. Yeah Thank You chef

  • 30 seconds Venice little bit first right coming up on this here. Yeah. Fuck jump. What's up? What's up?

  • At this time the lettuce is on the plate. You're not separate table one pleasure. Say this

  • Start working up another four. Yeah. Yeah summers bounce-back means talking to James and more portly. They're together as a team

  • So it's a dynamic duo as opposed to one up one down

  • Happy that yeah, so this very nice the dishes look fantastic. Absolutely. Delicious James. Yeah, so I'm keep it going. Yeah. Yeah

  • That's your last several. Yes by the last table look exactly and takes exactly the same as a first pleasure Jenny

  • Okay. Good over you

  • Most annoying person natural weddings. It looks absolutely brilliant

  • Hold on guys. Yeah. Yeah big deep breath

  • Service is over my discerning yes of tasty both restaurants food. I want to find out what they thought starting with a milestone

  • They thought the venison with the Wellington wonderful combination of flavors a texture it taste

  • It really worked for me Wilfred. How was it the person who did the Wellington I would he is so eager to win

  • Yeah, it looks like a cage fighter. It's like he's ready for action

  • Big way and you can see that in the dish

  • There was too much going on and then the one with cherry was a bit more laid-back. Yes is the West House?

  • That was my preference and it's because wasn't trying too hard. I prefer the West house

  • I thought the way that kind of venison was perfect and I

  • Absolutely loved the liver which is something I normally don't eat and was a real treat. I referred the Wellington. Yeah

  • I thought it's actually fantastic

  • Hey, she was brilliant. He was really live

  • Extremely difficult issues. Yes, actually baby like two beautiful ladies you do

  • both the guys of full well, but they've also

  • Come up against pressure

  • Gorn doesn't say anything as a missus

  • Eyes on everything I think overall it went really really well

  • Yeah, the food looks amazing who say stubby dish that went out. So hopefully that'll be the winning dish

  • I'm hoping for the best but it's all in the eyes of garden at the end of there

  • Both of these restaurants have great strengths, but we've also both got floors

  • I'd love to put them both through to the semi-finals but I can't which of them has the potential to be truly great

  • I've got to decide

  • My top two British restaurants the michelin-starred West House from Kent and the milestone from Sheffield have absolutely cooked their hearts out

  • I'm about to tell one of them the competition journey ends here

  • There have been errors yet both still produce truly outstanding food

  • To help me make my choice. I need to compare both dishes

  • Both this is visually stunning

  • I can transport these two plates and put them in any top restaurant and they wouldn't look out of place

  • That's how excited I am about the best of British

  • milestone

  • Braised lettuce beetroot a Wellington done with a cheap cut

  • Phenomenal and the nettle pancake mind-blowing

  • Is delicious buttery

  • Slightly gamy loin of venison that just just melts in your mouth this just like put a knife through butter. Is that soft wonderful

  • Westhouse got that wow factor

  • Delicious

  • Darhk's ever heart/liver very difficult yet, right

  • It's got that little touch of gaining bitterness to it. That really goes well with the rich cut from the loin

  • Season duty the cherries make it work because the acidity and it's got that side of Ruth

  • That Moorish sumptuous richness. I am really taking back while these dishes the standard is incredible. I love this one. Love it. Love it

  • Love it, but then there's magic in this one for me right now

  • They're both winners

  • - remarkable British restaurants, but only one can win a place in the semi-finals

  • Okay, um, I

  • Invited both you here today to blow me away

  • For one restaurant to excel um, I didn't get that

  • No, because I got both restaurants excelling in a big way and it's

  • Amazing to see

  • That kind of performance in what my mind is one of the most exciting categories

  • but the joy of watching and

  • tasting what you've just done in there has now become a

  • Nightmare on a personal front because I have to eliminate one of you and put one of you through to the semi-final

  • So I thought well which dish would I put on my lunch menu tomorrow morning? I came up with the decision

  • Both the dishes would sit there

  • That's what I'm faced with right now

  • so the winner is

  • Not based on one dish because if it was

  • Both of you will be going through

  • Think of the journey I turn up with a coach 30 diners come

  • Swooping in causes havoc and it's the biggest pain-in-the-ass that any Russian could ever wish for I then film you

  • Undercover I send in an awkward secret diner to turn the place upside down to see how you handle that kind of pressure

  • Here's my question

  • Which restaurant would I prefer to return to?

  • West as would I go to that intimate stunning

  • family-run Michelin star done with charm

  • or would it be the Sheffield I suppose balls of steel because it is run with a

  • Heartbeat that is missing a lot of rations tough

  • very tough

  • It is so hard, you've got no idea

  • The restaurant going through to the semi-final based on everything I've seen

  • Is

  • Last time. Congratulations

  • That was for me

  • One of the toughest most different decisions I've ever made but that this was unique and don't stop cooking like that. Yeah

  • Go now this stage is fighting us and makes us you know

  • Worse the second-best British restaurant in the competition

  • So, you know

  • We carry on we do we do it we do it a restaurant and you know keep the customers happy and that's that's the main

  • thing

  • Guys well done really well done. Yeah phenomenal. He pulled out the stops there today and it worked. Yeah. Good job. Well done

  • Well done well done

  • It's just amazing, it's fantastic dream come true

  • he's proved a point to us for and to a lot of those people that are expecting a lot from us and

  • Thank god, we've actually come true and we've made it with that kind of determination

  • That's where the future of British cooking is up there in Sheffield

  • But right now this competitions only gonna get tougher and I hope they don't let me down

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