Checking out your best restaurant nominations

and tonight my search continues with another of the UK's favorite cuisines, Thai

Over the last 10 years Thai food has taken Britain by storm

Even the pub's are doing it now, but really top-notch authentic Thai restaurants are so hard to find actually chance, please

Thank you

I've eaten some great restaurants in Thailand, and I know that secret to authentic Thai food

It's all about getting that balance right between the sweet bitter

Hot sour salty flavors tonight's contenders and have to be at the top of the game to impress me from hundreds of tiny nominations

I've hand-picked my top two to go head-to-head for a place in the semi-finals

From son Andrews Scotland's Gulf and capital, it's Nam Jim. I

Just love to shirred you know, how good Thai food is I just very proud

They'll be fighting it out with a colossal Thai restaurant from the heart of London

Mango-tree, you are one son. Son of a I'm always fired up. I don't need Gordon sticker walking at me are some day. I'm ready

Nom Jim and the mango tree will be battling to prove they have what it takes to be my best Thai restaurant

For the first of three grueling challenges, I've dispatched 30 fervent foodies who descended each restaurant in turn and order on mass

First stop 50 miles north of Edinburgh its bonus and Andrews

This town is not only famous for his golf venue

But also Nam gym an amazing Thai restaurant is run by a dynamic duo husband and wife sandy and B

And they pride themselves on cooking authentic Thai cuisine today. I'm expecting nothing less than a hole in one

I'm gonna see anyone's cottage in the b8. No, sorry. Well husband. Sorry

The only Scot in the village

The first and only tyrant in st. Andrews nam jim's charm and authentic cuisine has taken the town by storm

It just simple, but perfect

Determine - while the locals bees even created and inspired signature dish using Scotland's national fair haggis

Face spicing it doesn't actually taste like haggis. It's a buy pork, isn't it?

That's delicious

What I love most about this place is there Jeff Abby. She's burst with energy. She's happy in her cooking

I'll stop happy and it shows in the food

Amazingly but you had never cooked professionally until she and her husband sandy openam Jim eight years ago

successful businesses all in the detail

We kind of try and be the best we can be we use the best ingredients from Thailand great service

We just won't do everything as good as a give it away. This is one the restaurants a huge following of celebrity golf fans

This is my Hall of Fame, that's a Tiger Woods's mother. Mr. Sean Connery here. Mr. Samuel Jackson

He just said thank you very much. Your food is wonderful. I was so proud

Now being Sandy's hard-fought reputation is about to be tested to his limits

My coach full of hungry diners are just around the corner. All 30 of them will expect a spotless meal in just two hours

I'm gonna be over everything not just the diamond but in the kitchen as well and as you know

I miss nothing. I'll be spotting everything

Manager sandy is in charge of keeping all my 30 diners happy penes team must explain these unique Thai dishes

One of the house specialities is the Thais Scottish haggis

We also make that with a vegetarian haggis, which is essentially pulses and nuts

Pea the orders are starting to roll now. Yeah

Yeah, as well as the haggis B's menu includes vegetarian jungle curry and tamarind up with Pak Choi

As fast as front-of-house send the orders through being her efficient type of guide on knocking out amazing food Thai cuisine

It's quick. It's not a long-winded style of cooking is done in a very fresh and sort of rapid way

Sandy the only bread on the team is the all-important link between the dining room and the kitchen

Are you at your weakest in here when they're speaking fluent?

I just kind of ignore what they're talking about like to see kind of what they're doing more than anything

So long it's a really weather of machine it's not a race to me the standards far more important, okay?

If the starters are anything to go by the standards don't seem to be a problem

Later on fire but at his hectic pace, it's vital that every member of the team is on top of every detail

This is the vegetarian wool

Sandy stop stop stop cocoa cream. There's no coconut cream on their nose mother

Before you take anything, you gotta tell her

Self-control here, isn't it? You're taking dishes. She doesn't know is John

One lamb cutlets as well guys, and that's all the start has done for everybody then

Sandy things all the starters are out but a quick scan of the dining room reveals. He's missed a whole table how

Sandy are you missing an order?

All the tables are taken here as front of house boss sandy should be all over this so that's that's all gone

No, that's all gone

Yeah

Smells nice contest

To see threes as opposed to see two

And you don't help Amazon you take food don't tell her where it's got it I'm just the fly in the ointment

Okay at last the missing table get their food

Okay, man cost me at all breathe whilst bees kitchen ramps up for the mains

Sandy's front-of-house team seemed more and more disorientated. We've got more waiters in here now than we have chefs

Do you know we're going sandy

Sandy looks a little bit. So lost there. Yeah, you know, but he comes in a little bit. Yeah, okay

So like this, we just like to like to be out right away

So you handle pressure better than he does?

Despite his confusion. Sandy's got nearly all the main courses and desserts out with 45 minutes to spare

And it's soon clear how he's done it

She's eating her - ser while I'm having my me pork

I don't think we expected that when we ordered it, you know woman you ordered. I thought you start

together

I'm sure it's best to serve the starter

Yeah cap

Main course cap and then dessert but we thought rather than somebody

Sit there eating what the partner has nothing for 20 minutes

It was less, you know for somebody to be eating at the same time

I know that's personally how I would prefer it. It does make sense

No, I agree. I'm seen it so far in the competition

Today being a kitchen team really have scored a hole-in-one. I

Went for the tie vegetarian highness which was really exquisite. The food was fantastic start to finish. It was delicious renal socks off

Worth waiting for with such fantastic food the wheat link here is clearly front-of-house. I

Spoken to the diners and not everybody enjoyed having their dessert and the main course at the same time

Dessert is a sort of sweet grand finale not to be eaten opposite a duck the saving grace today

Is that everyone loved the food?

That's for me the most important tine up get the service as good as a food in 99 percent of the way there

My best restaurant hit squad of 30 diners are on their way to the second toy restaurant battling for semi-final place in my nationwide competition

Just a stone's throw from Buckingham Palace is one of the most popular toy westerns in the capital it's mango-tree

To be here

Big destruction knock has been front of house manager of this huge 160 seat restaurant since it opened 10 years ago

I love manga 3. It's my baby. This is my life my inspiration

Even the kitchen is huge as well. How are you?

So nice to see a Englishman heading a Thai Kitchen

Way from I'm planning you have Thailand. Thank God for that

Hey check marks passion for Asian cuisine led him to work in Vietnamese and Japanese kitchens before coming to the mango tree

What we're trying to create is the essence of the Thai Street food served in an eloquent way

Is accomplished take on Thai cuisine attracts 350 diners at night on a busy weekend

By star restaurant, I really enjoy coming here is one of those places you can really trust

For mark, controlling such a vast operation is made harder by a less than ideal restaurant layout

With the kitchen and dining room on different floors, all the food is sent by left

These earpieces things like someone from the secret police

To coordinate food and service staff use radio headsets and if all else fails, there's always the phone. Yes coming right now

when a customer happy when a staff happy I

am very proud what I'm doing

With knots battalion of waiters and Mars Revere's food. This huge restaurant should find my first test at Donald

But every ration I've tested so far has struggle with my coach load of 30 dinars

Arriving in ordering all at once they'll expect every dish to be cooked to perfection

I want my diners to leave tonight, you know on cloud nine. I want their jaws on the floor really push it out

Yeah, and good luck

We got a new order to me income one chickens are tight

We're just going to do what we do best and that's the quality and the consistency of the food

You don't want to be complacent if they're thirsty pad thai there'll be 30 great pad thai

It's that simple

Mark has hand-picked a small selection of his most popular dishes for my guests tonight

including shrimp Tom Yum chicken, satay and tiger prawn pad thai

He's taking these Thai classics to a new level of sophistication

With truly authentic flavors and exquisite presentation, but upstairs front of house of discoveries made a big mistake

I

Know approach. I for this time all of the dish in here can be substitute to which carrion is not probably the soul

You don't need to worry about it

Knocks professionalism has carved a potential mutiny

Meanwhile the fish and meat eaters are loving their starters useful flavors complement each other

Amazing. I would definitely recommend

But there's a serious problem with one diners chicken, satay

The chicken Kurtis is seems quite fleshy inside and quite pink. It's absolutely yes. I

Waking up fuckers that we drank it will take another 5-10 minutes. I'm sure

You don't expect it from the top restaurant to ask my food to be sent back to the kitchen

New order one chicken satay well done

Overall your leave them

Both the chicken satay starter and the baby chicken main course a half cooked free service and finished off to order by kamyshev Nielsen on

This occasion. He's got it badly wrong heavy part cooks the chicken you want expected to go out? No

He's very annoying when we're dealing with the people that we are dealing with tonight

Mart's been quick to send up a replacement dish, but I want to see how well this lift system works

In my restaurants I can bark orders at my waiters over the pass

But here every dish that leaves the kitchen must travel up two flights of stairs by dumbwaiter - Mikey

Is his job to send the food to the right table?

What was that

Although should tell you what table is before they send the fucking thing though. Yeah

Don't know never what is coming in the legs. I can only guess seeing the foot and Perrier to the ticket

Ok, not they selling food, but no one's told me what table in terms of ticket

For this one. Yeah, so just set their diet

Please

Come on yes, there's always like this. Yeah. Fuck me. That's 430 kimochi was like was what 300?

Everything in the lift send it as service ramps up. The system is falling apart

Oh it sees the main it is yes, we wait

But most of the mistakes are picked up by the waiting staff before they hit their dining room what's wrong with that

You say nowt wrong. So I need I need this instead. Okay, send it down then. What's that? Right? It's not missing

Oh, I don't get a ticket for a Gaia but I go what table is it?

Set it down to you

This is crazy

What a mess lots of great food don't know where fast

So if you send me again table 38 they would take it they got the main cause already

That lift is busier than fucking Paris he own his knickers. Yes

Dad this list could be a nemesis you'll be given absolute total pain in the ass