Alex Polizzi: Chefs on Trial

Alex starts her search at The Gilpin in the Lake District, whose family owners want to find a new executive head chef who will love the business as much as they do.

Alex continues to try and find an executive head chef for Lake District restaurant The Gilpin as three new candidates' butchery skills tested as they are presented with a tradition...

There is just one place left in the final, and the pressure is on for the final three candidates to try and secure that place.

Three candidates have made it through to the final and are challenged is to come up with a three-course fine-dining menu for a restaurant full of regular and discerning diners.

Alex attempts to find a new head chef for Mario and Karen Constantinides, the owners of the Miners Arms gastropub in Whitecroft, Gloucestershire. The first three candidates are put...

Alex continues to try and find a head chef for the Miners Arms gastropub in Whitecroft, Gloucestershire. The next set of candidates are put to the test.

The candidates have to deal with wild boar for their skills test as they battle it out to try and secure the one place left in the final.

With the job of a head chef position on offer, the tension in the kitchen is high as the remaining candidates battle it out to try and secure the position.

Alex tackles Amélies, a harbour-side seafood restaurant in the picturesque town of Porthleven in Cornwall. Owner Sam Sheffield Dunstan gave up a high-flying career in London five y...

Alex Polizzi continues on her mission to help restaurants hire desperately needed head chefs. She continues with Amélies, a seafood restaurant in the Cornish coastal town of Porthl...

Alex continues her mission at Amélies, a seafood restaurant in Cornwall whose owner has spent months looking unsuccessfully for someone to run her kitchen. Two successful candidat...

It's the final at Amélies, a seafood restaurant in the Cornish coastal town of Porthleven. Over the week, Alex offered up nine candidates to be put through a rigorous interview pro...

Alex tackles Potli, an Indian market food restaurant in London's Hammersmith. Owners Jay and Uttam have endured an agonising six-month search for a new head chef to help take their...

Alex continues with Potli in the heart of Hammersmith, a restaurant serving Indian market food and in desperate need of a new head chef to help build the owners' dream of a restaur...

Alex continues her mission with Potli, an Indian market restaurant in London's Hammersmith, whose owners are desperate to find a head chef to help realise their ambition of expandi...

It's the final at Potli, a restaurant serving Indian market food in the heart of Hammersmith. Over the week, Alex has offered up nine candidates to be put through a rigorous interv...