Kitchen Nightmares

[Reephdweller]

I loved this show with Gordon Ramsey of Hell's Kitchen, it's a really good idea for a show. The first episode featured Peter's Italian Restaurant in Babylon on Long Island. That place went from a disaster to success in a week, pretty amazing.

I'll definitely be checking this show out.

http://fox.com/kitchennightmares/

[Reephdweller]

I thought last weeks restaurant was a mess. The indian restaurant they featured tonight was hideous!! The guy who was the general manager was awful, he had absolutely not a care that the food they were serving was rancid. I'm really digging this show.

[drjoek]

Green Burgers Kill People!!!!:clap:

[King Hippos Bandaid]

Wifey and i enjoy the show, I gotta check the BBC version , I heard its much more vulgar

:king:

[Reephdweller]

I want to see the BBC version too. I like this one, so I can only imagine that I'd love that one also.

[Chigworthy]

I was a big fan of the BBC version, and I missed the first episode of the American one. I heard all the complaints on R&F, so I was prepared to hate the show last night, but I liked it. It is different than the BBC version. It seems like they are trying to produce it like Hell's Kitchen, with the same narrator and what not. Still a damn good show. I loved how Gordon wouldn't let up on the GM. I knew he was trying to get him to quit, and whattya know, one less douche at Dillon's. The fly thing is a good indicator of a shitstaurant. A few flies in the hotter months is unavoidable, but when they are swarming everywhere, that can only mean that there is plenty of decomposing food laying around.

[Ay Kay Forty2]

yea, all those flies and bugs in the in the basement. It was funny how he looked down the stairs of the basement and was like "what down there". You would have thought they had dead bodies down there.

Also, there was the cook that didn't even know where he was. Thinkin' he was in New Jersey. And hugging Gordon Ramsey in this long, uncomfortable silence. I was laughing my ass off, I thought he was going to whisper in Gordon ear "take me with you".

[envirogator]

Simply disgusting. I put myself through school working in restaurants and I know each one has its secrets but that was absolutely appalling.

[angrymissy]

This show is the best. Last night he was telling the annoying manager that he was fat. Love it. They're doing restaurants all near where I live on the South Shore, I plan on checking them out to see if they are still doing well.

[EddieMoscone]

Last night he was telling the annoying manager that he was fat. Love it.

What was up with that blubbering bitch? Crying for TV? There was one point where he was supposedly "crying", but he did one of those quick looks up to see if anyone actually noticed he was. What a phony!

[King Hippos Bandaid]

I enjoy the show, esp. each show Has one Bad Guy who gets abused. It is repetitive but Funny

:king:

[angrymissy]

Jeff and I went to Peters, the restaurant in the first episode, for dinner last night.

Obviously the restaurant learned nothing. You would think after getting all that exposure on the show, they would at least try to keep it up.

First, we sit down and our table is wobbling all over the place, so Jeff asks if they can fix it... usually they'll put a piece of wood or something under the table and that will end the wobbling. They say they can't fix it, so we move to the table next to us. They stand around and watch us move our plates, waters, silverware, etc. and don't even try to help.

OK, so we order. I'm seated facing the wall, and see little black specks all over the wall. We look closer and the wall has flies all over it. Looked like fruit flies. Gross. Jeff tells the waiter and they're basically like "oh.". They don't even try to swat the flies away! We were going to leave at this point but already ordered. They have a room in the back, so once again, we move tables to the back of the restaurant. There are still a few flies/gnats buzzing around, but its not as bad as the front.

OK, so the food. On the show, didn't they change it to family style? Nope, no family style. Jeff gets a stuffed artichoke appetizer that is nasty. The breadcrumbs in all in one huge glob that looks like stove top stuffing. I get lasagna for dinner. It's basically like a unseasoned soup of watery ricotta cheese and oil. Jeff gets linguini and clam sauce, which he said was "ok".

As we get up to leave, the flies are back. The table next to us is swatting in the air, and the other table by us is watching a swarm of fruit flies attack their bread and butter. Foul.

The entire inside of the restaurant totally did not even look redone. I won't be going back.

Oh, and we saw the owner (the sister) up front slaving away over a party they were having, and the guido Peter was there as well, hooking up his friend with a free meal.

[Reephdweller]

Damn, you would think they would have learned their lesson but I guess. They get a gift from Ramsay and quickly turn it into shit. They probably were doing right for a few months maybe and then went right back to old habits. Morons. They'll be right back on the fast track to going out of business before you know it.

[KnoxHarrington]

How does a restaurant that shitty stay in business for any length of time, given how brutal the restaurant business is?

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

Entertainment value aside, I don't understand why anyone would want to advertise such dysfunction and then slip back into old habits. Makes you wonder what's going on in the kitchen. I shudder to think.

In this past week's episode, the chef was such a douche nozzle. WHY would you appear on TV and let the world know you're a lousy cook with a rotten attitude? Good luck getting a job after that!

EDIT: It would make a great show if Gordon showed up unannounced for a follow up.

[mildly amusing]

i found out a couple days ago that a restaurant i frequent is going to be featured...i like the food there so i'm not sure what problems they have in the back...i'm afraid to watch it though, don't want to find out a rat has been shitting in my appetizer...

[BMoses]

This guy on youtube has posted a bunch of Ramsay Kitchen Nightmares from the BBC.
It is a little different but I enjoy even a little more. The focus is more on the kitchen
and the food.

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=ichbinderausgang

[Reephdweller]

A friend of mine who lives in Islip was telling me about the place in the last episode The Seascape. She said it was known throughout the town to stay away from there it had a horrible reputation so it wasn't surprising to her to see the things she saw. She said that at the time they were filming she didn't know it was for that show, she just saw the crews everyday when she'd be going to work. Had she known she definitely would have gone in and made a ruckus about the food to get filmed.

[buzzard]

Just like his last episode when he showed the mama's boy faggot how to manage and get out of his dead fathers' shadow..then he sold the restaurant within 5 months! some people just don't get it! I have noticed Ramsey puts $$ into the USA version...a mistake I think..in the BBC version he humiliates and insults/badgers the owners/managers/cooks in hopes of finding their passion.

[Chigworthy]

I love the people who get butt-sore and try to insult Ramsay after he schools them. Like he doesn't know the business. He just got a second Michelin star in New York for chrisakes.

[underdog]

I flipped over on my tivo tuner on Sunday and it happened to be on BBC America and a Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares marathon was on.

I cannot get enough of this show. Its awesome. I haven't seen the American version, yet, but the BBC version is great television.

If you haven't seen it yet, there's been at least two episodes on every night this week.

[King Hippos Bandaid]

thank god for the WS

Was unfortunately at a Wake, so I would have missed this week's show

Wifey and I love Ramsey Kitchen Nightmares. Missed the Sunday Marathon (Football)

:king:

[buzzard]

as aforementioned Kitchen nightmares rawk, "Gordon Ramsey's The F word" is kinna lame(on BBC) seems kinna shallow I don't really care so much about who Ramsey hob-knobs with!:thumbdown: btw has anyone else noticed that he seems to have to show us how he looks without a shirt in ALL his shows?..ecch!

[Leticia]

There was an episode of Kitchen Nightmares where the Manager of one of the restaourants (Martin, british dude) was an old boss of mine!

I was like whaaat.

He ended up quitting his job during the show...

That was weird.

[Reephdweller]

I totally love this show, but I just saw the british version of it called Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares...I really like this one also. I didn't even know I had the BBC America channel but I'll be tivo'ing this show also.

[pennington]

The episode at Finn McCools in the Hamptons was tonight.

Gordon actually acted like a decent person, the biggest dicks were some of the customers. The local food critic was like 25 and a full-of-herself bitch and the fire department came off as whiny babies.

I'm liking this show more and more. As Ms Fuzzybutt mentioned, it would be great if they did a surprise follow-up 6 months later to see how things running.

[King Hippos Bandaid]

stupid self important local news reviewer cunt sure was on her high horse

I like BBC Ramsay Kitchen Nightmares a lil better , but this ep was good.

:king:

[suggums]

The episode at Finn McCools in the Hamptons was tonight.

Gordon actually acted like a decent person, the biggest dicks were some of the customers. The local food critic was like 25 and a full-of-herself bitch and the fire department came off as whiny babies.

I'm liking this show more and more. As Ms Fuzzybutt mentioned, it would be great if they did a surprise follow-up 6 months later to see how things running.

they did the 2 month visit (a staple of the british show) on tonights episode. i think with the earlier shows, there wasnt enough time between filming it and the broadcast, or they just werent interested.

like many others have said in this thread and elsewhere across the internet, the british version focuses more on the chefs and food, rather than trying to tell a story about a family restuarant or the emotions of the employees in every episode. i definitely liked the bbc version more once i had seen it, but still tune in for our kitchen nightmares every week. wish it wasnt so predictable. it'd be nice to see cooks quitting or telling gordon to fuck off at the end of each episode, rather than always coming around for the cameras and producers.

now im done with kitchen nightmare episodes and am on to the F-word. pretty fun, but more like hells kitchen than kitchen nightmares. i don't like the amateur chefs, but like the cooking competitions and ongoing story with the pigs he's raising and gonna butcher/cook up in the last episodes

[underdog]

I hate what Fox does to this show. Why do they need to create so much drama with everything? I wish they had just copied the BBC version exactly. Its so much better.

[chubbyknuckles]

I loved this show with Gordon Ramsey of Hell's Kitchen, it's a really good idea for a show. The first episode featured Peter's Italian Restaurant in Babylon on Long Island. That place went from a disaster to success in a week, pretty amazing.

I'll definitely be checking this show out.

http://fox.com/kitchennightmares/

I actually went to Peter's for Thanksgiving a year ago, when I saw it on that show, i almost shit my pants, just like I had done, when i had thier stuffed mushrooms

[DiabloSammich]

Bump.

Kitchen Nightmares marathon on BBC.

Lovin' it.

[pennington]

I hate what Fox does to this show. Why do they need to create so much drama with everything? I wish they had just copied the BBC version exactly. Its so much better.

I haven't seen the BBC version. I still like this show but there does seem to be a pattern to every show:

1) Find a bad guy. The producers must decide this ahead of time so when Gordon comes in he starts mocking him immediately. Gets in his face, says the place would be better off without him.

2) Find a victim. Usually the owner or the owner's wife. Close-ups on the sobbing.

3) Show how bad the staff is. Interviews with everybody saying how bad everybody else is.

4) Show how dirty the kitchen is. People could get sick!!!

5) Change the menu. Always good for a lot of anger.

6) Change the decor. Everybody cries.

7) Have a bad re-launch. Much more drama. Will they survive???

8) Happy endings. Everybody admits they were wrong. Hugs and tears.

[Chigworthy]

You definitely haven't seen the BBC version.

[Tall_James]

Just saw these online. Funny stuff...

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[underdog]

Is every restaurant on the American version on Long Island?

And is Long Island just filled with stereotypical italians?

[RoseBlood]

And is Long Island just filled with stereotypical italians?
No, we also have stereotypical jews, stereotypical hispanics, stereotypical drunken white trash (ie.. irish).. just one big beautiful melting pot. :blink:

[underdog]

No, we also have stereotypical jews, stereotypical hispanics, stereotypical drunken white trash (ie.. irish).. just one big beautiful melting pot. :blink:

I think I saw an episode with the stereotypical drunken white trash irish on it. Surprisingly, it was a restaurant that the entire family worked at.

[Sinestro]

I just watched this show on Hulu.com as they had 2 restaurants that I've passed by but never eaten in. I still don't think I would ever eat in those places. Has he ever went to any failing chain restaurants? I would like to see the conditions of how those places are.