Only a couple of weeks to go now so I thought we needed a new thread. For follow-up to last year's (including 'Plate Expectations') see:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...97070&page=171

This year at least three of the restaurants are in Bristol:

http://www.theoliveshed.com/

http://www.howarRABrestaurant.co.uk/

http://www.jamesbarlow.co.uk/bbc%E2%80%99s-restaurant

The use of somewhere outside the Thames Valley is probably connected with the fact that RB has spent a lot of time in Bristol recently opening a new "Brasserie Blanc".

HowarRAB has since closed:

http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/...l/article.html