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Great British Menu continues as 24 of the nation's finest chefs battle it out to cook gastronomic masterpieces that are also witty and fun. Their dishes have to put a smile on faces as they compete for the prize of cooking a dish at a special banquet at the Royal Albert Hall celebrating 25 years of Comic Relief's Red Nose Day appeals.

Three culinary heavyweights return to the Great British Menu kitchen, all determined to win a chance to cook at the banquet. Two Michelin star chef Daniel Clifford, who got his main course to the banquet last year, is desperate for a repeat performance. But Michelin star Richard Bainbridge has competed twice before and passionately believes that this year's brief gives him the best chance of going all the way. They are up against Will Holland, who has beaten them both before in the Great British Menu kitchen and is determined to do it again.

The three chefs are judged by Marcus Wareing, a veteran of the competition who has a reputation for exacting standards. He decides which two chefs make it through to face judges Prue Leith, Matthew Fort, Oliver Peyton and guest judge, comedian and actor Jim Moir, better known as Vic Reeves.

In the curtain raiser in central England, the chefs go all out to get to the top of the leaderboard. Daniel Clifford creates a dish called A Trip to the Chippy, where nothing is as it first appears. That is also the theme for Richard Bainbridge's starter, banana split, while Will Holland offers up goats cheese mousse, balsamic jelly and gingerbread. Which dish will impress veteran judge and two Michelin star chef Marcus Wareing?