Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares
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Episode 8
The Granary
aired: Tue, Dec 9, 2008
The Granary in rural Hampshire, an upmarket restaurant which - at 200 seats - is the biggest Gordon's ever taken on. Originally opened by entrepreneur Nigel Nieddu as an up-market dining club four years ago, the restaurant was relaunched after a £2m refit, but it's still losing £4k a week. It promises classy modern British cuisine but in reality the fussy menu features food sourced from all over the globe and the locals, disconcerted by its exclusive reputation, are staying far away. Head Chef Martin doubles as parole officer to his unruly teenage charges in the kitchen, while Nigel stubbornly struggles to contain the front-of-house chaos that he's created.
Episode 5
season 5, episode 5
aired: Mon, Apr 2, 2012
The Priory, is a 100-seater carvery in Haywards Heath, Sussex owned by ex IT consultant Scott. The former chapel of a nineteenth-century convent, the restaurant is in a spectacularly beautiful location and offers bargain roast dinners from a carvery that's been running for twenty years. Scott bought the place for £300k but with an ageing clientele eating for half-price, he's losing £5,000 a week. And despite the heavenly location, the food is straight from hell: recycled meat, soup in a bucket, synthetic sauces .. and worse still, a lazy head chef content to preside over food-encrusted ovens and a disaffected brigade.
Episode 2
Piccolo Teatro
aired: Tue, Nov 6, 2007
Piccolo Teatro, a bijou vegetarian restaurant in Paris is run by feisty Scot Rachel. A former waitress at the restaurant, Rachel bought it three years ago and now, along with best friend Stephanie, she's trying to convert the carnivorous French into a nation of veggies. For Gordon it's a sentimental journey to the city where he spent his formative years as a chef, a food mecca full of gastronomic delights that should be a dream.
Episode 1
Ruby Tates
aired: Tue, Oct 30, 2007
The venue for the first programme is Ruby Tates in Brighton, owned and run by ex-actor and failed Hollywood wannabe Allan Love. Situated in an affluent and trendy area just one street back from the beach, it's an oyster bar and seafood restaurant but Allan's never tasted the food because he hates fish. He won't even put his head round the door of his own kitchen, where lurk two angry chefs - furious Frenchman Alex and indolent Aussie Jamie - busy doing nothing but turning out a lacklustre menu including hot fruits de mer and ageing lobster. They themselves admit they wouldn't eat it, and incredibly for a seaside restaurant, there isn't a local fish in sight.
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Episode 4
Morgan's
aired: Sat, Jan 10, 2009
In the final programme of the series Gordon grapples with girl power when he takes on an intimate family-run restaurant in the heart of WAG territory near Liverpool. For the last three years Morgan's has been run by antiques dealer-turned-restaurateur Sandy and her two daughters Helen and Laura. The beautifully-designed dining room has a prime high street location and should be the perfect eatery for the trendy local clientele but Head Chef Phil is grappling with an eclectic menu that includes mashed potato with apricots and his cooking's just not up to it.
Episode 3
Rococo
aired: Sat, Jan 10, 2009
In tonight's programme Gordon finds a chef caught in a time warp when he tackles a picturesque but largely unfrequented upmarket restaurant in King's Lynn, a traditional market town on the Norfolk coast. For the last eighteen months ex Michelin-starred chef Nick has owned and run Rococo but his past success is now eluding him. The menu is past its sell-by date, the service is stuffy, the food is over-priced and the only thing being fed is his ego. Yet, despite debts of £100k and the prospect of putting his home at risk and his young family on the streets, Nick continues to cook comatose in a 1990s fantasy land of his own making.
Episode 2
The Fenwick Arms
aired: Tue, Nov 21, 2006
In the second programme Gordon tackles a pub for the first time, getting to grips with The Fenwick Arms in rural Lancashire. The pub is run by landlord Brian who, after thirty years in the business and a quadruple heart-bypass, still puts in 120 hours a week and insists on laying down the law in the kitchen. Despite their best endeavours Brian and his partner Elaine are £250k in debt, losing £1500 a week and facing bankruptcy within three months unless there's a drastic reversal in their fortunes.
Episode 1
La Parra de Burriana
aired: Tue, Nov 14, 2006
For the first time ever on Kitchen Nightmares, Gordon takes on a nightmare restaurant abroad. La Parra de Burriana is an ex-pat restaurant in Nerja on Spain's Costa del Sol. Nestling among the cafes lining the seafront offering all-day English breakfast and chips, La Parra is the brainchild of twenty-six-year-old ex-nightclub manager Laurence. He set himself up in business with a loan from his dad and, although he's not an experienced chef, mans the kitchen on his own, determined to offer something better than chips to his largely British clientele.
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Episode 4
La Gondola
aired: Tue, Mar 14, 2006
La Gondola, a hotel and restaurant that was the toast of Derby in the 1970s and 1980s, is sinking fast and is stuck in the past.
Episode 3
Clubway 41
aired: Tue, Mar 7, 2006
Gordon heads to Blackpool to help at Clubway 41, a restaurant that is in dire straits despite being voted one of the best in the resort town.
Episode 2
The Sandgate Hotel
aired: Tue, Feb 28, 2006
Gordon Ramsay travels to the seaside to help ailing hotel and restaurant, The Sandgate.
Episode 1
Oscar's
aired: Tue, Feb 21, 2006
Maura and her son, Lenin, run Irish restaurant Oscar's in Nantwich, Cheshire.
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Episode 8
Bonaparte's Restaurant Revisited
aired: Tue, Jul 12, 2005
Chef Ramsay revisits Sue Ray, owner of Bonapartes Restaurant.
Episode 2
D-Place
aired: Tue, May 31, 2005
Staff at D-Place argue constantly and the subpar food is regularly sent back to the kitchen.
Episode 1
La Lanterna
aired: Tue, May 24, 2005
Twenty-eight-year-old owner and head chef Alex offers modern Italian cuisine at La Lanterna in Letchworth, Hertfordshire.
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Episode 4
Moore Place
aired: Sat, Jan 10, 2009
Nick and Richard are self-confessed restaurant virgins. They've both had successful careers in the brewery business so when they bought Moore Place they thought their dream had come true. What they hadn't fathomed was just how difficult it would be to fill the 90-seater oak-paneled restaurant or find a chef who could cook decent food. Their first mistake was to paint the building purple. The wealthy Surrey residents hated it and refused to enter the building. Ramsay discovers some fundamental problems - a chef who can't cook, a bunch of sultry waiters and a building that looks more like a funeral parlor than a restaurant.
Episode 3
The Walnut Tree
aired: Tue, May 11, 2004
The Walnut Tree Inn in South Wales became a national institution under the ownership of Franco and Ann Taruschio, who successfully ran it for 37 years. But when fellow Italian Francesco bought the place he made the mistake of turning the warm and welcoming country inn into a cold and stark London-style restaurant. He achieved a Michelin star for the food but soon after that he lost his head chef. Donning his chefs whites and apron, Francesco tries to run the kitchen and be the host in the restaurant. Consequently he fails in both jobs. The customers aren't returning and the food's going downhill.
Episode 2
The Glass House
aired: Sat, Jan 10, 2009
Saturday night at the Glass House Restaurant in Ambleside is a nightmare. Orders in the kitchen are mixed up, food's not cooked properly and the customers are complaining. Not only is the chef in tears, but the owners on the brink as well. Neil Farrell's owned the Lake District restaurant for 3 years and he's up to this eyes in debt. The business won't survive if the restaurant's only busy on a Saturday night but with only 3,000 residents in the town, Neil has to attract the influx of visitors if he's going to fill the 90-seats every night.
Episodes
Episode 5
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares: The Curry Lounge
aired: Mon, Apr 2, 2012
The venue for this programme is The Curry Lounge in Nottingham, the city with more restaurants per square mile than any other in Britain. This 120-seater Indian restaurant has been run since January by ex sales director Raz who's new to the business - and it shows. Despite a £500k refurbishment and decor like a Bollywood set the honeymoon period's well and truly over. His once-healthy trade is evaporating and at his current rate of loss it's uncertain he'll make it past Christmas.
Episode 4
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares: The Fish and Anchor
aired: Mon, Apr 2, 2012
The venue for this programme is The Fish & Anchor, a restaurant and bar near Lampeter in rural West Wales, owned and run by ex-boxer Mike and his wife Caron. Mike, a self-taught cook, is a one-man pressure cooker in the kitchen as he struggles to accommodate a vast menu while Caron's unique style of front-of-house management includes abusing the customers and her husband in equal measure. Every night they go twelve rounds with the local clientele who are fast deserting them to the tune of a £1,000 per week loss.
