The F Word

The first programme sees two Italian restaurants go head to. Both face one of their biggest challenges of their lives as they prepare a three course meal under Gordon's watchful eye - but who will be good enough to wow the F Word diners and go on to fight for the title of The F Word's Best Local Restaurant ?

Gordon continues his search for the world's best ingredients and travels to Scotland to hunt deer to create a brand new curry - Venison Masala. It's a huge challenge as the deer are quick and very easily startled and the beautiful scenery of the Scottish Highlands provides a spectacular backdrop to this food adventure. Meanwhile, Janet Street-Porter continues her mission to rear three different meats for the chefs to cook (cows, pigs and chickens) and this week welcomes the second batch of animals to her farm - woolly Mangalitsa pigs. Their thick curly hair makes them an extraordinary sight but these rare breed animals produce fantastic meat. Janet is under a lot of pressure as the meat she rears is going to be cooked by the top two restaurants as they battle it out for the overall title of The F Word's Best Local Restaurant in the final show of the series.And comedy titan Lenny Henry takes Gordon on in the Recipe Challenge, cooking his mother's recipe for Pepperpot Soup.

In tonight's programme, two French restaurants go head to head - Bouchon Bistrot from Hexham and The French Table from Surbiton. Both restaurants face one of their biggest challenges of their lives as they prepare a three course meal under Gordon's watchful eye - including foie gras, rack of lamb, grey mullet and crepes suzette. But who will be good enough to wow the F Word diners and go on to fight for the title of The F Word's Best Local Restaurant?Meanwhile, Gordon continues his search for the world's best ingredients and travels to Paris to learn all about the dying art of croissant making. Janet Street-Porter continues her mission to rear three different meats for the chefs to cook (cows, pigs and chickens) in the F Word final. This week, she makes cheese with milk from the miniature Dexter cows Gordon has challenged her to keep.

In tonight's programme, two Chinese restaurants go head to head - Chop Chop from Edinburgh and Sweet Mandarin from Manchester. Both restaurants face one of their biggest challenges of their lives as they prepare a three course meal under Gordon's watchful eye - including salt and pepper squid, pork dumplings, claypot chicken and banana fritters.But who will be good enough to wow the 50 F Word diners and go on to fight for the title of The F Word's Best Local Restaurant?Meanwhile, Gordon goes hunting for an amazing Chinese delicacy - Mitten Crab - in the river Thames.

So far Gordon has found his best Italian, Indian, French, Chinese and Spanish restaurants and in tonight's programme, Gordon and his team travel around Britain looking for brilliant local Thai restaurants before inviting the best two to cook in the F Word restaurant.Simply Thai from Teddington and Yum Yum from London face one of the biggest challenges of their lives as they prepare a mouth-watering three course meal under Gordon's watchful eye - including fishcakes, chicken curry and spicy sweet pork followed by mango and coconut rice pudding. But who will be good enough to wow the 50 F Word diners and score enough points to secure a place in the semi-finals - and go on to fight for the title of The F Word's Best Local Restaurant ?

So far Gordon has found his best Italian, Indian, French and Chinese restaurants and in tonight's programme, Gordon and his team travel around Britain looking for brilliant local Spanish restaurants before inviting the best two to cook in the F Word restaurant./n/nEl Gato Negro from Yorkshire and Lola Rojo from London face one of the biggest challenges of their lives as they prepare a three course meal under Gordon's watchful eye - including prawns, sea bass, fish stew and churros with chocolate./n/nBut who will be good enough to wow the 50 F Word diners and go on to fight for the title of The F Word's Best Local Restaurant?/n/nMeanwhile, Gordon travels to Spain to hunt for an extraordinary delicacy - Percebes or Goose Barnacles - that is both dangerous and difficult to source./n/nAnd Kelly Brook takes Gordon on in the Recipe Challenge with her recipe for stuffed peppers.

So far Gordon has found his best Italian, Indian, French, Chinese, Spanish and Thai restaurants, now he turns his attention to food from North and South America. Gordon's top two contenders - Discover Bay, a Caribbean restaurant from Huddersfield goes head to head with Santa Maria Del Sur, an Argentinian restaurant from London. They battle it out in the kitchen cooking a delicious menu of chicken and chilli, rib eye steak, spicy pork and roast peaches, for 50 paying diners. Plus, Gordon travels to Canada to hunt for an extraordinary delicacy - Snow Goose.But who will be good enough to wow the 50 F Word diners and score enough points to secure a place in the semi-finals - and go on to fight for the title of The F Word's Best Local Restaurant ?

So far Gordon has found his best Italian, Indian, French, Chinese, Spanish, Thai and American restaurants, now he turns his attention to British. Gordon and his team travel around Britain looking for brilliant local British restaurants before inviting the best two to cook in the F Word restaurant. His two top contenders - The Pheasant from Cambridgeshire and The Swan from Kent - battle it out in the kitchen cooking a delicious menu of stilton starters, main courses of stuffed rabbit and loin of venison and Christmas pudding soufflés for 50 paying (or not paying) diners. Who will emerge victorious from the Christmas showdown? Will it be hearty food cooked by a perfectionist gastro-pub owner or the refined cuisine served up by a highly ambitious chef who's determined to break into the big time? The brigades need to win over as many diners as possible if they are to secure a place in the semi-finals of the search for the F Word's Best Local Restaurant. Meanwhile, England cricket hero Freddie Flintoff and burlesque superstar Dita Von Teese drop into the restaurant and Peter Andre takes Gordon on with his ultimate steak recipe in the Recipe Challenge. And Gordon travels to the home of Father Christmas for an extraordinary festive adventure. In the wild, snowy outer-reaches of Lapland, he'll learn about one of the most delicious and unusual meats in the world: reindeer.

So far Gordon has found his best Italian, Indian, French, Chinese, Spanish, Thai, American and British restaurants, and in the final heat of the competition he takes on The Rest of The World.Gordon and his team travel around Britain looking for brilliant local restaurants serving food from all over the gobe, before inviting the best two to cook in the F Word restaurant. His two top contenders - Greek Retsina and Moroccan Doukan, both from London - battle it out in the kitchen cooking a delicious menu of sardine starters, main courses of prawn and mussel tagine and a delicious mixed grill, followed by spiced apple cake for for 50 paying (or not paying) diners. The brigades need to win over as many diners as possible if they are to secure a place in next weeks semi-finals, where the top 6 restaurants on the leaderboard will be battling it out for a place in the grand final of the search for the F Word's Best Local Restaurant. Meanwhile, Gordon uncovers the secrets of Greek cuisine and Janet Street-Porter explores one of Morocco's greatest delicacies. Plus, Gordon is joined by some very special guests, including Stavros Flatley and his son from Britain's Got Talent and their plate-smashing dance takes the restaurant by storm.

In tonight's episode, the F Word will be taking to the road. Best Chinese restaurant Sween Mandarin from Manchester and best Indian restaurant Lasan from Birmingham will be joined by the winner of the American category, Argentinian restaurant Santa Maria Del Sur from London. All three restaurants will be giving their all, competing for the chance to cook in the grand final at the F Word restaurant tomorrow night. Over the course of an action-packed hour of mouth-watering entertainment, Gordon will put them through a gruelling series of tests to find out who's really got what it takes to hit the big time in the restaurant world. The hugely ambitious Aktar from Lasan, laid back Ernesto from Santa Maria and bubbly twin sisters Helen and Lisa from Sweet Mandarin will be pushed to breaking point as plate after plate of delicious food is subjected to Gordon's scrutiny. First, secret diners will visit each restaurant and hidden cameras will help Gordon decide who should be the first to be eliminated. Gordon will then turn up the heat on the two remaining restaurants by descending on them with coach full of demanding diners. Finally, he'll throw the restaurants into the toughest culinary environment of all: he'll invite them to his flagship 3 Michelin starred restaurant, Royal Hospital Road in Chelsea, and challenge them to cook the dish of their lives for a group of specially invited diners. There are three restaurants but only one can go through - who will Gordon choose to go through to tomorrow night's grand final?

In tonight's episode, the F Word will be taking to the road. Best British restaurant The Pheasant and best Thai restaurant Simply Thai will be joined by Greek Retsina.All three restaurants will be giving their all, competing for the chance to cook in the grand final at the F Word restaurant. Over the course of an action-packed hour of mouth-watering entertainment, Gordon will put the restaurants through a gruelling series of tests to determine who's really got what it takes to hit the big time in the restaurant world. The chefs will be pushed to breaking point as plate after plate of delicious food is ruthlessly scrutinised. First, secret diners will visit each restaurant and hidden cameras will help Gordon decide which should be the first restaurant to be eliminated. Then Gordon will turn up the heat on the two remaining restaurants by descending on them with a coach full of demanding diners. Finally, he'll throw the restaurants into the toughest culinary environment of all: he'll invite them to his flagship 3 Michelin starred restaurant, Royal Hospital Road in Chelsea, and challenge them to cook the dish of their lives for a group of specially invited guests. Ego, pride and reputation - for the chefs, owners and their friends and family, everything is on the line. Only one restaurant will can go through - who will Gordon pick for Thursday night's grand final?

Gordon's nationwide search for The F Word's Best Local Restaurant reaches its climax in tonight's grand final. Following 10,000 nominations from the public, 18 fantastic restaurants in 9 different categories (Italian, Indian, French, Chinese, Spanish, Thai, The Americas, British, Rest of the World) battled it out in front of the F Word diners. Only six made it through to the semi-finals and now the final two face their ultimate challenge and one will be crowned The F Word's Best Local Restaurant 2010.The two finalists will battle it out in the F Word kitchen cooking delicious rare breed beef, pork and chicken provided by Janet Street-Porter fresh from her farm in Yorkshire. The two restaurants face the toughest set of F Word diners ever - Gordon has packed the dining room with food writers who will be deciding whether to pay or not to pay, although the final decision rests with Gordon. For the two finalists it's the toughest service of their lives: three courses that will catapult the winner into the big time. Finally, after a night of intense competition, Gordon will decide who should be crowned The F Word's Best Local Restaurant.