Watch Gordon Ramsay's F Word

The search for the Best Local Restaurant climaxes as the finalists cook rare breed beef, pork and chicken provided by Janet Street-Porter for a room packed with food writers who will be...

The Pheasant, Simply Thai and Greek restaurant Retsina battle it out for a place in the Best Local Restaurant final.

It's the first semi final as Sweet Mandarin from Manchester, Lasan from Birmingham, and Argentinian restaurant Santa Maria Del Sur battle it out for a place in the Best Local Restaurant...

A Greek and Moroccan restaurant battle it out in the kitchen. Gordon uncovers the secrets of Greek cuisine. And Janet Street-Porter explores one of Morocco's greatest delicacies.

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.

Discover Bay from Huddersfield goes head to head with Santa Maria del Sur from London in the Americas category of The F Word's Best Local Restaurant competition. And Gordon goes to Canada...

Gordon searches Britain for two brilliant Spanish restaurants to cook in the F Word restaurant. He also travels to Spain looking for the extraordinary food delicacy goose barnacles.

Simply Thai from Teddington and Yum Yum from London prepare a mouth-watering three course meal under Gordon's watchful eye, hoping to wow the F Word diners.

Two Chinese restaurants go head to head under Gordon's watchful eye: Chop Chop from Edinburgh and Sweet Mandarin from Manchester. And Gordon hunts for crab in the Thames.

Gordon heads for Paris to learn all about the dying art of croissant making, and two French restaurants go head to head in the F Word kitchen: Bouchon Bistrot from Hexham and The French…

Two Indian restaurants go head to head in the search for the nation's best local restaurant. Curry is one of Britain's favourite dishes so the pressure is on as both restaurants prepare a…

The search for the nation's best local restaurant begins with the two Italian finalists going head to head. Meanwhile Gordon faces Katie Price in the celebrity food challenge.