Every day this week the chefs cooked a different course, culminating on Friday's programme when they presented their entire menu to the Great British Menu judges. First up were the starters: Richard cooked crubeens (stuffed pigs' trotters) and Noel opted for a carpaccio of venison.
We moved on to the fish course on Tuesday: Noel's dish had a distinctly French flavour - a consommé of seafood with a tomato and fennel essence - and Richard served poached wild salmon with a duck egg dressing.
For the midway point of the menu both chefs chose to serve lamb: Richard cooked two cuts of mountain lamb, while Noel opted for a canon of lamb with black pudding and sweetbreads. Once in the final, Richard took some of the judges comments from the first round on board and adapted his lamb dish to include sweetbreads and kidneys.
Noel stuck to seasonality with rhubarb served three ways, while Richard used traditionally Irish ingredients in his pudding made with carrageen moss and dulse.