Product Description
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The star chef saves failing restaurants from culinary hell
Go behind the scenes at struggling restaurants with Gordon
Ramsay, Britain’s most celebrated gourmet. One of the world’s top
chefs (with 12 Michelin stars to his name) and three-time winner
of a Catey award (the British hospitality industry’s highest
honor), Ramsay knows restaurants top to bottom. And he needs
every bit of his expertise to rescue these real-life culinary and
commercial disasters in just one week.
Foul-tasting food, chaotic kitchens, misguided menus -- Ramsay
confronts them all, along with incompetent cooks, headed
servers, and painfully obstinate owners. He handles staffers with
his profanity-filled, in-your-face style that suffers no fools
and spares no egos. Also includes four episodes of Kitchen
Nightmares Revisited, in which Ramsay returns to these
restaurants on the brink to see whether his shock
worked. After just a few episodes of this International
Emmy®-winning reality series, you’ll never dine out quite the
same again.
DVD FEATURES INCLUDE production notes and biography of Gordon
Ramsay.
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Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares shares the same sense of tension as
cooking contest shows, Iron Chef or Top Chef, but somehow this
series beats them all, if you’re looking for something more than
a straight view of the chopping block. Whereas the aforementioned
programs portray a chef’s extreme duress from the chef’s point of
view, Gordon Ramsay offers the best of both worlds by offering an
outsider’s business perspective while tying his apron on a few
minutes per episode to teach his audience how to cook. The
premise of the show is simple: a master chef studded with
Michelin stars visits struggling restaurants to business consult
and jump start their menus. Scenes alternate between his meetings
with the restaurant owners, Ramsay teaching the kitchen members
how to cook decent food, and Ramsay in his hotel, venting about
his clients’ low competency levels. Started in Britain in 2004
and picked up by Fox television in 2007, this first season of
Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares takes place in small town England and
Wales. As such, one will learn more than ever thought possible
about lamb shank, mushy peas, haddock, Yorkshire puddings, and
other hearty foods indicative of that culture. The series opens
with a nightmarish glimpse into a filthy kitchen at Bonapartes
Restaurant in Silsden, England. Ramsay tries to slap the lazy
chef into shape, with sad results. Episode two, "The Glass
House," is slightly less disturbing on a hygienic level but
exemplifies how structural problems amongst employees can drag a
business into the mud. "The Walnut Tree Inn," set in Llandewi
Skirrid, South Wales, and "Moore Place," set on a golf course in
Esher, England, focus on how tradition can choke out customers
who crave new, innovative menus. These two episodes feel
especially indicative of the British Isles, as the restaurateurs
struggle with how to maintain their reputation while rejuvenating
notions of how people want to eat. In "Moore Place," for example,
Ramsay recommends Americanizing the menu, to break from the local
pub competition. It’s a brilliant business strategy, and it
works. Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares also works because of
follow-up episodes titled Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares Revisited,
in which he tests how long-lasting his suggestions are. If one is
interested in not only a straight cooking show, but also in the
many facets of running a restaurant, this program is highly
educational and fun to watch. --Trinie Dalton
Stills from Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (Click for larger image)
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Review
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A brilliant, and entertaining, restructuring of the TV cooking
show format -- DVD Talk
Compulsively watchable...utterly fascinating -- NPR, Fresh Air
GRADE: A- -- The Onion
Moving, surprising, and inspiring all at the same time; within
each episode, in fact. -- Exclusive Magazine
Must own TV! -- MovieWeb
Shares the same sense of tension as cooking contest shows, Iron
Chef or Top Chef, but somehow this series beats them all. -- Fort
Bend Star
Shows Gordon at his finest. -- Blogger News Network
The entire tone of the show is less corny, less confrontational,
and less exploitative of Ramsay. -- DVD Verdict
Undeniably the world's greatest TV chef. -- NPR, Fresh Air
Utterly fascinating... undeniably the world's greatest TV chef.
-- NPR's Fresh Air
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