Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares (Last Night)

[bright1064]

Did anyone see it last night on C4?

If you missed it, I would check out 4OD if I were you, Ramsey at his best last night.

It was all about a so called "Indian" restaurant in Manhattan.

The reason the episode will stick in my mind is due to the state of the place! Bloody awful it was! There was rotten food being served, cockroaches rats and flies everywhere.

I'm tempted to never venture into a restaurant again after watching that!

Good telly, mind.

 

[Hiney]

The 'General Manager' - Martin - was a complete BELLEND as well

You know what you're going to get with Ramsey but it's good stuff

 

[Easy 10]

Top entertainment, Ramsay is a legend. Shame you don't get his re-visit a month or two later on the US ones though, to see whether they've slipped back into old ways or not.

That restaurant last night was MINGING. Sheets hanging from the walls ? I'd have walked in and straight back out again, it looked a complete DUMP.

 

[Bozza]

My Humax has this on series record so I'll catch up with it over the next few days but I've been disappointed with this US variant of the show he did here as every single one is exactly the same...

1. Gordon arrives and meets everyone.
2. Gordon orders some food to try it out.
3. Gordon thinks all the food is shit. He might nearly be sick.
4. Gordon rows with the chef or owner or both.
5. Gordon examines the kitchen which is filthy with old food everywhere. He threatens to shut the kitchen down.
6. Everyone cleans the kitchen.
7. Whilst everyone is out the restaurant receives a complete make over.
8. People nearly cry at how nice the 'new' restaurant is.
9. Gordon introduces a new menu that put the chef in a sulk.
10. There is a big re-launch night that goes badly due to people not being able to cope with a busy restaurant and/or the new menu.
11. Somehow it all sort of works out and 'Chef Ramsay' departs as a hero.

 

[bright1064]

The 'General Manager' - Martin - was a complete BELLEND as well

He was blatantly perving over all the young ladies in there as well. I wouldn't be surprised if he had preyed on at least one of them

This was backed up by that fact that one of the girls actually stuck up for him!

To which Gordon Ramsey replied "It's none of your business, keep your nose out!"

Her face was a picture Genius!!

 

[Wozza]

Agree, Bozza - awful scripting/dumbing down for the US audience.

 

[bright1064]

My Humax has this on series record so I'll catch up with it over the next few days but I've been disappointed with this US variant of the show he did here as every single one is exactly the same...

1. Gordon arrives and meets everyone.
2. Gordon orders some food to try it out.
3. Gordon thinks all the food is shit. He might nearly be sick.
4. Gordon rows with the chef or owner or both.
5. Gordon examines the kitchen which is filthy with old food everywhere. He threatens to shut the kitchen down.
6. Everyone cleans the kitchen.
7. Whilst everyone is out the restaurant receives a complete make over.
8. People nearly cry at how nice the 'new' restaurant is.
9. Gordon introduces a new menu that put the chef in a sulk.
10. There is a big re-launch night that goes badly due to people not being able to cope with a busy restaurant and/or the new menu.
11. Somehow it all sort of works out and 'Chef Ramsay' departs as a hero.

American telly is much more scripted isn't it?

I mean before virtually every American show you hear the immortal words...

"Some of the scenes were created for entertainment purposes"

 

[MattBackHome]

My Humax has this on series record so I'll catch up with it over the next few days but I've been disappointed with this US variant of the show he did here as every single one is exactly the same...

1. Gordon arrives and meets everyone.
2. Gordon orders some food to try it out.
3. Gordon thinks all the food is shit. He might nearly be sick.
4. Gordon rows with the chef or owner or both.
5. Gordon examines the kitchen which is filthy with old food everywhere. He threatens to shut the kitchen down.
6. Everyone cleans the kitchen.
7. Whilst everyone is out the restaurant receives a complete make over.
8. People nearly cry at how nice the 'new' restaurant is.
9. Gordon introduces a new menu that put the chef in a sulk.
10. There is a big re-launch night that goes badly due to people not being able to cope with a busy restaurant and/or the new menu.
11. Somehow it all sort of works out and 'Chef Ramsay' departs as a hero.

Funnily enough that's one of the things I really like about the US version - you know EXACTL what you're going to get and when (e.g. DAY 2: KITCHEN INSPECTION - Gordon lopes into shot wearing oversized black leather jacket over tight white t-shirt despite the early morning sun blaring into the camera. The streets are deserted and its obviously before 8am. Gordon slaps his right hand into his left palm: "Right, it's the time I've been f***ing dreading - time to see what the kitchen's like") or later in the episode, before the ad break, they show ALL the good bits from the next section in a manic flurry of expletives, worried looking faces, black steam issuing from an unwatched frying pan and a crying waitress - meaning that as you watch the next bit after the break you're left with an uneasy (but comforting) sense of almost deja-vu, having already seen what's going to happen.

Love it.

 

[Wozza]

Funnily enough that's one of the things I really like about the US version - you know EXACTL what you're going to get and when (e.g. DAY 2: KITCHEN INSPECTION - Gordon lopes into shot wearing oversized black leather jacket over tight white t-shirt despite the early morning sun blaring into the camera. The streets are deserted and its obviously before 8am. Gordon slaps his right hand into his left palm: "Right, it's the time I've been f***ing dreading - time to see what the kitchen's like") or later in the episode, before the ad break, they show ALL the good bits from the next section in a manic flurry of expletives, worried looking faces, black steam issuing from an unwatched frying pan and a crying waitress - meaning that as you watch the next bit after the break you're left with an uneasy (but comforting) sense of almost deja-vu, having already seen what's going to happen.

Love it.

Why don't you want the same episode again and again. Sounds like you'd really enjoy that.

 

[Bozza]

Gordon slaps his right hand into his left palm:

I hope he's trademarked that particular little action. It's nearly as distinctive as the Shearer goal celebration.

 

[Easy 10]

And why do we ALWAYS get a cut scene of him taking his shirt off to get his chefs whites on ?

Oooh GORDON

*swoon*

 

[Bozza]

And why do we ALWAYS get a cut scene of him taking his shirt off to get his chefs whites on ?

Oooh GORDON

*swoon*

Another dead-cert from every US series:

The oldest woman in the restaurant team - sometimes an old seen-it-all waitress, sometimes the mother of the owner - speaks candidly to the camera about how much she fancies Chef Ramsay.

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

And why do we ALWAYS get a cut scene of him taking his shirt off to get his chefs whites on ?

Oooh GORDON

*swoon*

I'm not complaining!!!

Last night's one was well funny!! When that Marting guy kept shouting "NOT GUILTY!"

 

[Easy 10]

You girlies are so SHALLOW and easily manipulated

 

[MattBackHome]

Why don't you want the same episode again and again. Sounds like you'd really enjoy that.

I could definitely do a few viewings of some of them - like the one where 'buzzard' was nicking the food and wine. Great stuff!

 

[Hiney]

Almost as predictable as Wife Swap USA

Bible-bashing Mum swaps with ultra liberal Hippy type Mum

Lots of tears, tantrums, (manufactured) confrontations and heart-to-hearts

Meeting at the end where they all realise that a bit of give and take is actually OK

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

I'm sure I recognised that Martin fella

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

"general manager?! general TOSSPOT"

 

[andybaha]

I enjoyed the first couple of US shows but then realised how formulaic it is. It is exactly the same every week. If Gordon had really been sent to sort out that restaurant, Martin would have been sacked within about 10 mins of him arriving because that's how long it took to suss he was a bellend. But then that wouldn't have made good telly would it?

The UK version has been much better but I guess there are only so many variations on the theme and perhaps the next UK series will be a bit of a let down

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

The so-called “little bit of shit” that potty-mouthed star chef Gordon Ramsay “just can’t get out” has wiggled his way into a new line of work.

Martin Hyde, the former restaurant manager of Dillon’s in the theater district, who angrily quit during a spat with the combative celebrity cook on the set of the Fox reality series Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares—and who later made international headlines by suing the network—is no longer supervising waiters and bartenders, but rather limo drivers at an upscale uptown car service.

Mr. Hyde, 52, started his new job on Friday, just two days after the hugely hyped Sept. 26 episode finally aired. He blamed the show’s producers, who pegged him as the fall guy for the embattled eatery’s woes, for ruining his chances of ever again working in food service.

“They’ve blocked me from the restaurant business,” Mr. Hyde fumed to the Transom over beers at the Boat Basin Café on West 79th Street on Friday, Sept. 28.

Depicted on the program as a bumbling buffoon of a manager, who seemed eternally glued to his cellphone and entirely oblivious to the chaos in the kitchen, Mr. Hyde had unsuccessfully sought a court order to block the broadcast.

In his lawsuit, he claimed that many aspects of the so-called reality show were actually staged, including rotten meat allegedly planted in the refrigerator, and that important details were intentionally edited out, particularly the part about him not having any real role in the kitchen.

“As general manager, I took responsibility for the front of house, hiring and training bar and wait staff and, most importantly, booking shows for the cabaret theater,” he said. “The kitchen was out of bounds to me.”

Yet, during the episode, Mr. Ramsay singles him out for blistering criticism about unclean cooking conditions in the back of the restaurant. (In an interview with CNN’s Larry King last week, Mr. Ramsay called Dillon’s “one of the most disgusting kitchens ever found in my entire cooking career.”)

Another discrepancy: Dillon’s 100-seat cabaret theater is never mentioned on the program, a bit of context sorely lacking during all those shots of Mr. Hyde affixed to his mobile. “I was on the phone booking shows,” he said.

Some scenes mentioned in Mr. Hyde’s lawsuit never made it on air; most notably, an alleged incident in which Mr. Ramsay forced him to crawl “on his hands and knees” in search of his phone, which the celebrity chef had supposedly tossed out onto the street.

“I was relieved the most degrading part was cut out,” Mr. Hyde said. “But, at the same time, there’s so much humiliation anyway, it doesn’t make much difference.”

An employment agency warned him that notoriety would probably follow him wherever he goes, he said.

But in the days immediately following the broadcast, that infamy had yet to really manifest itself.

Until, that is, comely Westchester yoga instructor Joanna Rothschild spotted the lanky Brit on his way out of the Boat Basin.

“I think all reality TV is bullshit,” said the friendly brunette.

http://www.observer.com/2007/he-can-t-hyde-chef-gordon-ramsay-s-nemesis-surfaces-swish-car-service