Extraordinary Places to Eat

It must be hard being an award-winning chef. You go for dinner, but all you do is nitpick - the starter overdone, the main underspiced... It takes perfection to make it into their little black book. With this in mind, Fred Sirieix - one of London's most famed maître d's - heads to Venice to try chef Angela Harnett's top eats, tucking into local langoustine, pilgrim scallops and semifreddo tiramisu

Make sure you have some snacks to hand, plus something to mop up all that drool as you enjoy this whistle-stop tour around Edinburgh's finest dining locations. There's a succulent mix of fine dining and traditional grub on offer as venison-liver parfait, wagyu beef and traditional fish and chips are all on the menu. Plus, for dessert, you'll get to witness a cow being massaged. Yum!

Fred's friend and former boss, Chef Michel Roux Junior takes him to Paris to sample the signature pressed duck dish at the City's most historic restaurant, La Tour D'Argent. But he also wants to prove that a truly great meal in Paris doesn't have to come with a fancy wine list and a hefty price tag, so he lets Fred in on the secrets of the perfect jambon beurre.

San Sebastian in Spain's Basque country is where restaurateur Nisha Katona believes truly incredible food is to be found. She takes Fred to the world's most experimental restaurant, Mugaritz, where they are wowed by the effort involved in delivering dishes that are more like crazy works of art than meals.