Croydon's Come Dine with Me guests were treated to the "classiest party of the week" last night.

Trainee solicitor Vanessa D'Souza rustled up food of Michelin star quality for her fellow diners, on night three of the competition.

The 25-year-old who lives in Sanderstead, treated her guests to a starter of Spicy baked crab with a vegetarian alternative of Spicy baked potato, for her vegetarians diners.

The starter went down particularly well with diners Suzie and Rob, who expected to be served a traditional jacket potato as their first course.

For her main, Vanessa served medallions of beef with champ, with quorn potato cakes for the vegetarians.

But the contestants were left shocked when amateur dramatics director Rob, asked to have the beef despite claiming he didn't eat meat.

When confronted he told the group he only "did not eat animals that made him laugh."

Vanessa said: "I was not annoyed by Rob switching to a main that was meat.

"As host, it's my job and my pleasure to accommodate for my guests as much as possible, whether that be giving up my steak or providing more salt for Keith's sodium addiction.

"I personally take responsibility for not buying one extra steak."

To complete her guests' fine dining experience, Vanessa made chocolate and orange liqueur soufflé for dessert and was rewarded with a whopping score of 31 points, putting her in the lead for the £1,000 prize.

Speaking of the experience she added: "I was very happy with my score and loved the whole experience. It was a very tiring week, but I would definitely do it again."

Tonight is office administrator Sarah Marie Palmer's turn to cook, but will she be able to beat Vanessa's score?

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