How it works Hosting the sumptuous winning banquet will be the culinary trail-blazer Heston Blumenthal. The guestlist will be brimming with top chefs flying in from all over the world, to attend the dinner. In the programmes that transmit each night this week (19-22 May), the seven chefs who have made it to the finals will cook their entire menus again for the Great British Menu judges: Oliver Peyton, Prue Leith and Matthew Fort. On Monday 19 May we kick off with the starters, Tuesday 20 May the fish courses, Wednesday 21 May the main courses and on Thursday 22 May the desserts. The judges will taste all the dishes individually and each of them will award marks out of ten. The marks will all be added together and the chefs will be ranked accordingly. The chef with the highest score takes first place and the chef with the lowest, seventh place. In the event of more than one chef attaining the same scores, they will share the relevant position in the overall ranking. (For instance two chefs with the same scores could be awarded joint third place.) You will be able to vote for your favourite chef at the end of each programme (see below). The Great British Menu scoring system works on a 50:50 basis. Fifty percent of the final score comes from the judges' points and fifty percent from the viewers' phone votes. The chef ranked the highest for a particular course will cook that dish at Heston Blumenthal's banquet at 'The Gherkin'. The same chef may be selected to cook more than one course. In the event of a tie, the viewers' vote will prevail. The winning chefs will be announced during the programme that transmits on Friday 23 May at 6.00pm on BBC Two. The programmes are pre-recorded, not live. In the event of technical failure with the phone lines, we will revert to the judges' score alone. If the judges choose joint winners they will reconvene, consider how the menu is taking shape and then decide which of the chefs should be the winner. 2008 Finalists
How you can vote (terms and conditions)- Voting is by telephone only. The numbers to be used will be broadcast during the appropriate programme.
- Vote lines are opened and closed as specified on the programme. Votes received outside the specified times will not be counted, but may still be charged. Voting times may change.
- Each day the lines open at the end of the show and close at 8pm. Do not call outside these times as your vote won't count and you maybe charged.
- The BBC reserves the right to cancel or suspend voting at any time.
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