Drop Down Menu
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Drop Down Menu is a Channel 4
daytime show
hosted by Matt Tebbutt
and Gizzi Erskine
. It's a funky, exciting, entertaining cooking show
, featuring some of the UK's most talented chefs and its best-loved celebrities, where the studio audience gets to decide what's cooked.
Episode 1 - Justin Lee Collins
drops by to watch Michelin-starred chef Michael Caines
cook in the studio.
Episode 2 - Matt and Gizzi are joined by chefs Jun Tanaka
and Maria Elia, who will be cooking for Radio One DJ Edith Bowman
.
Episode 3 - Michelin-starred chef Tom Kerridge and chef Lawrence Keogh cook for celebrity guest Arlene Phillips
.
Episode 4 - Chef Cyrus Todiwala
and top sushi chef Nic Watt add spice to the show and cook for former EastEnder Natalie Cassidy
.
Episode 5 - This time the Drop Down hosts are joined by chefs James Tanner
and Atul Kochhar
who cook for Home and Away legend Ray Meagher
.
Episode 6 - On the show this time singer Paul Young
and chefs Angela Harnett and Theo Randall.
Episode 7 - Nic Watt and Jason Atherton
cook for celebrity guest Strictly Come Dancing's Anton Du Beke
.
Episode 8 - Emmerdale's Sian Reeves
is in for a treat as chefs Galton Blackiston
and Tristan Welch cook for her.
Episode 9 - Kenny Atkinson and Lawrence Keogh cook for celebrity guest Matthew Kelly
.
Episode 10 - Carley Stenson
takes time out from the hit West End musical Legally Blonde to enjoy food from chefs Adam Byatt and Anjum Anand
.
Episode 11 - Chef Theo Randall cooks for guest Denis Lawson
while Omar Allibhoy is inspired to create some sourdough dishes.
Episode 12 - Chefs Jason Atherton and Silvena Rowe
join Matt Tebbutt and Gizzi Erskine in the studio.
Episode 13 - Nadia Sawalha
shows off her cooking skills, alongside chefs Ben Tish and Adam Byatt.
Episode 14 - Chefs Jun Tanaka and Paul Rankin
cook up a storm for Radio One's Dave Vitty.
Episode 15 - Brothers James and Chris Tanner cook for Dancing on Ice's Jason Gardiner
.
Episode 16 - Chef Paul Rankin cooks for comedian Rufus Hound
, while Tristan Welch rustles up some bespoke bangers.
Episode 17 - Chef Omar Allibhoy cooks rabbit with prunes for celeb guest John Thomson.
Episode 18 - Chef Galton Blackiston
cooked up a game feast for celeb guest Charley Boorman
.
Episode 19 - Chef Michael Caines cooks chicken satay for sports presenter John Inverdale
, who causes havoc in the 'tag-team cuisine'.
Episode 20 - Yet to be shown
Episode 21 - Yet to be shown
Episode 22 - Yet to be shown
Episode 23 - Yet to be shown
Episode 24 - Yet to be shown
Episode 25 - Yet to be shown
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
daytime show
Television program
A television program , also called television show, is a segment of content which is intended to be broadcast on television. It may be a one-time production or part of a periodically recurring series...
hosted by Matt Tebbutt
Matt Tebbutt
Matt Tebbutt is a chef based in Wales, UK and is a well known food TV presenter. Born in High Wycombe in 1973, Matt Tebbutt moved to South Wales at the age of six months and so considers himself an honorary Welshman...
and Gizzi Erskine
Gizzi Erskine
Griselda 'Gizzi' Erskine is a British food stylist and professionally trained chef.-Early years:Erskine lived in Dumfries until the age of 2 and before moving to England...
. It's a funky, exciting, entertaining cooking show
Cooking show
A TV cooking show is a television program that presents the preparation of food, in a kitchen on the studio set. The host of the show, often a celebrity chef, prepares one or more dishes over the course of the show, taking the viewing audience through the food's preparation showing all...
, featuring some of the UK's most talented chefs and its best-loved celebrities, where the studio audience gets to decide what's cooked.
Format
This fast paced cookery show offers three options to the studio audience to choose from, as a drop down menu. There are a number of segments within the show, including a classic TV cookery clip, and 'tag-team cuisine'.Episode List
Series 1Episode 1 - Justin Lee Collins
Justin Lee Collins
Justin Lee Collins, commonly known as JLC, is an award-winning English comedian and television presenter.A Bristolian, he's well known for his strong West Country accent, shaggy appearance and colourful shirts....
drops by to watch Michelin-starred chef Michael Caines
Michael Caines
Michael Andrew Caines, MBE is an English chef, born in Exeter, Devon.He is currently head chef of Gidleigh Park in Devon, the Royal Clarence in Exeter, and developing the Abode hotels concept with Andrew Brownsword.-Biography:...
cook in the studio.
Episode 2 - Matt and Gizzi are joined by chefs Jun Tanaka
Jun Tanaka (chef)
Jun Tanaka is an American-born British Japanese UK TV chef, best known for presenting Channel 4's Cooking It as well as appearing in Saturday Kitchen on BBC One....
and Maria Elia, who will be cooking for Radio One DJ Edith Bowman
Edith Bowman
Edith Eleanor Bowman is a Scottish music critic, radio DJ and television presenter. She is mostly known for hosting the weekday afternoon show and from September 2009 weekend morning on BBC Radio 1 and for presenting a variety of music related television shows and music...
.
Episode 3 - Michelin-starred chef Tom Kerridge and chef Lawrence Keogh cook for celebrity guest Arlene Phillips
Arlene Phillips
Arlene Phillips OBE is an English choreographer, theatre director, talent scout, TV presenter, TV judge and former dancer, who has worked in many fields of entertainment...
.
Episode 4 - Chef Cyrus Todiwala
Cyrus Todiwala
Cyrus Todiwala OBE is Proprietor and Executive Chef of the Café Spice Namasté restaurant, consults for the Tesco Finest range, manages two other restaurants - The Parsee in Highgate and Cafe T in New Cavendish Street - and has been credited with an innovative and fresh approach to Indian cuisine in...
and top sushi chef Nic Watt add spice to the show and cook for former EastEnder Natalie Cassidy
Natalie Cassidy
Natalie Ann Cassidy is a British actress, most commonly known for appearing in the television soap EastEnders where she played Sonia Jackson for many years. She has also appeared in the BBC Two sitcom Psychoville and was a contestant on the seventh series of Strictly Come Dancing.-Career:As a...
.
Episode 5 - This time the Drop Down hosts are joined by chefs James Tanner
James Tanner
James Tanner is a British chef and television personality. He currently appears on the BBC cookery programme Ready Steady Cook.-Early life:...
and Atul Kochhar
Atul Kochhar
Atul Kochhar is an Indian-born British chef. Born in Jamshedpur in northern India, Kochhar was trained and worked at the Oberoi Hotel in New Delhi.-Biography:In 1994, he was appointed head chef at the Tamarind restaurant, in Mayfair, London...
who cook for Home and Away legend Ray Meagher
Ray Meagher
Ray Meagher surname pronouned "Marr" , is a veteran Australian character actor. He has appeared regularly in Australian film and television since the mid 1970s, and is notable as the longest continuing performer in an Australian television role, as Alf Stewart on Home and Away, having played the...
.
Episode 6 - On the show this time singer Paul Young
Paul Young (singer and guitarist)
Paul Antony Young is an English pop musician. Formerly the frontman of the short-lived bands Kat Kool & The Kool Cats, Streetband and Q-Tips, his following solo success as a solo recording artist turned him into a 1980s teenage pop idol...
and chefs Angela Harnett and Theo Randall.
Episode 7 - Nic Watt and Jason Atherton
Jason Atherton
Jason Atherton , is an English chef. He was the Executive Chef at Gordon Ramsay's Michelin starred Maze in London until 30 April 2010.-Biography:...
cook for celebrity guest Strictly Come Dancing's Anton Du Beke
Anton du Beke
Anton du Beke is a British ballroom dancer and television presenter. His professional dance partner since 1997 has been Erin Boag. With Boag, he won the IDTA Classic in England in November 2003.-Family and early life:...
.
Episode 8 - Emmerdale's Sian Reeves
Sian Reeves
Siân Reeves is a British actress, most famous for playing the role of Sydney Henshall in the BBC drama Cutting It, and for playing villain Sally Spode in Emmerdale.-Early life:...
is in for a treat as chefs Galton Blackiston
Galton Blackiston
Galton Blackiston is an English chef, born in Norfolk. The restaurant of his hotel, Morston Hall, is Michelin starred and has 3 AA rosettes. It is on the north Norfolk coast, two miles from Blakeney...
and Tristan Welch cook for her.
Episode 9 - Kenny Atkinson and Lawrence Keogh cook for celebrity guest Matthew Kelly
Matthew Kelly
Matthew Kelly is an English television presenter and Olivier-award winning actor. Having been trained as a theatre actor, he first came to public prominence as a television presenter of ITV light entertainment shows such as You Bet! and Stars in Their Eyes...
.
Episode 10 - Carley Stenson
Carley Stenson
Carley Anne Stenson is an English actress and singer, best known for playing Steph Cunningham in the Channel 4 series Hollyoaks. She also appeared as a performer in Abbamania, and is a member of the all-female band Diamond...
takes time out from the hit West End musical Legally Blonde to enjoy food from chefs Adam Byatt and Anjum Anand
Anjum Anand
Anjum Anand is a British Indian food writer and TV chef of Indian cuisine.-Biography:Anjum Anand, of Scottish-Indian descent, grew up in London but has also lived and studied in Geneva, Paris, and Madrid...
.
Episode 11 - Chef Theo Randall cooks for guest Denis Lawson
Denis Lawson
Denis Stamper Lawson is a Scottish actor and director. He is known for his roles as John Jarndyce in the BBC's adaptation of Bleak House and as Gordon Urquhart in the film Local Hero, but is best known for playing the part of Wedge Antilles in the original Star Wars trilogy.-Early life:Lawson was...
while Omar Allibhoy is inspired to create some sourdough dishes.
Episode 12 - Chefs Jason Atherton and Silvena Rowe
Silvena Rowe
Silvena Rowe is a British chef, food writer, television personality and restaurateur.-Biography:Rowe was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria to a Bulgarian mother and a Turkish father. Rowe's father, who was a newspaper editor of the largest Bulgarian newspaper, Bulgarianised his name due to Bulgaria's...
join Matt Tebbutt and Gizzi Erskine in the studio.
Episode 13 - Nadia Sawalha
Nadia Sawalha
Nadia Sawalha is an English actress and television presenter.Sawalha is perhaps best known for her role as Annie Palmer in the BBC soap opera EastEnders during the 1990s, although most of her television work is now as a presenter rather than an actress...
shows off her cooking skills, alongside chefs Ben Tish and Adam Byatt.
Episode 14 - Chefs Jun Tanaka and Paul Rankin
Paul Rankin
Paul Rankin is a Scottish born, Northern Irish celebrity chef from Ballywalter, County Down, Northern Ireland. Born in Glasgow, Scotland his parents moved back to Ballywater, where he grew up. This was stated when he was the subject of an episode of a short programme named Proud Parents on Channel...
cook up a storm for Radio One's Dave Vitty.
Episode 15 - Brothers James and Chris Tanner cook for Dancing on Ice's Jason Gardiner
Jason Gardiner
-Theatre:*1987- Cats – Australian Cast - Theatre Royal Sydney*1988- 42nd Street – Original Australian Cast – Her Majesty’s Theatre*1991- West Side Story – USA National Tour – Dance Captain*1992- Kizmet – Miami – Jackie Gleeson Theatre USA...
.
Episode 16 - Chef Paul Rankin cooks for comedian Rufus Hound
Rufus Hound
Rufus Hound is a British comedian and presenter. He is also the winner of 2010 "Let's Dance for Comic Relief".-Career:...
, while Tristan Welch rustles up some bespoke bangers.
Episode 17 - Chef Omar Allibhoy cooks rabbit with prunes for celeb guest John Thomson.
Episode 18 - Chef Galton Blackiston
Galton Blackiston
Galton Blackiston is an English chef, born in Norfolk. The restaurant of his hotel, Morston Hall, is Michelin starred and has 3 AA rosettes. It is on the north Norfolk coast, two miles from Blakeney...
cooked up a game feast for celeb guest Charley Boorman
Charley Boorman
Charley Boorman is an English TV adventurer, travel writer and actor. He is well known for his association with motorcycles and enthusiasm for biking.-Education:...
.
Episode 19 - Chef Michael Caines cooks chicken satay for sports presenter John Inverdale
John Inverdale
John Inverdale , is an English radio and television broadcaster who works for the BBC, mainly covering sporting events.-Biography:...
, who causes havoc in the 'tag-team cuisine'.
Episode 20 - Yet to be shown
Episode 21 - Yet to be shown
Episode 22 - Yet to be shown
Episode 23 - Yet to be shown
Episode 24 - Yet to be shown
Episode 25 - Yet to be shown