Million Pound Menu (2018)

Genre

reality show

Country

United Kingdom

Length

2 seasons, 12 episodes

Rated

TV-MA

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Budding restaurateurs pitch their food business ideas to a panel of investors, hoping to secure funding. The show is presented by Fred Sirieix and combines restaurant cooking challenges with negotiation.

competitivebusiness-focusedoptimisticupbeattenseaspirationalpracticalreality-grounded

What happens

My Million Pound Menu was a BBC reality television series which ran from 2018 to 2019, where budding restaurateurs would present food concepts to a panel of industry-leading investors in hopes of winning investment. It was presented by Fred Sirieix, a professional maitre d'hotel turned television personality. It was described the Guardian as "Dragons' Den meets MasterChef". The programme was broadcast on BBC Two, with the first series of six episodes broadcast from 17 May to 21 June 2018. The second series also comprising six episodes was broadcast from 8 January to 19 February 2019. Although not cancelled, no further series were made, possibly due to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. Episodes are now available to stream on Netflix. Investment offer ranged from £95,000 to nearly £1 million. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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