Byline: Marc Horne
SOME of Britain's top chefs are to compete in a television talent show with the winner getting to cook the Queen's 80th-birthday dinner.
High-profile cooks, including Gary Rhodes, Antony Worrall Thompson and Nick Nairn, will compete for the title of Britain's best television chef.
Fourteen chefs will take part in seven regional head-to-heads, with their dishes marked by celebrity judges. The aim will be to create the perfect four-course meal.
The series, entitled The Great British Menu, will be shown over eight weeks on BBC2 in April. Scotland will be represented by Nairn and Tom Lewis, the head chef at the acclaimed Monachyle Mhor hotel at Balquhidder in the Trossachs.
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