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 souffl??s 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.