• Air date: 21 Jan '11 14 episodes
      Chef Ramsay attempts to do the impossible: turn one ordinary and empty restaurant into the most popular, sought-after venue in town. There's no time for polite small talk as he embarks on his mission to turn around the fortunes of each restaurant in just one week and save them from their living nightmares.
  • List of Episodes (14)
    • 1. Hot Potato Café

      21 Jan '11
      Philadelphia is known as "The City of Brotherly Love," but one restaurant, the Hot Potato Cafe, is tearing a family apart. Passion, motivation and spirit fueled the restaurant when it was founded two years ago, but all of these mandatory ingredients are now in short supply.
    • 2. Flamangos

      28 Jan '11
      Chef Ramsay visits Classic American in suburban West Babylon, NY, a restaurant struggling to make ends meet with mounting debt and whose two inexperienced owners are fighting to keep their American dream alive. Owners Colleen and Naomi, former waitresses at Classic American, purchased the restaurant years ago, but their lack of business experience proves to be too much for the business to handle. Chef Ramsay has his hands full with a disorganized staff and a disappointing menu, but after
    • 3. Bazzini

      04 Feb '11
      Chef Gordon Ramsay takes on Bazzini Cafe, an Italian restaurant in Ridgewood, NJ, that struggles with slow service, poorly crafted dishes, a lackluster sous chef and a disappointing head chef.
    • 4. Mojito

      11 Feb '11
      Chef Ramsay travels to sunny South Florida, where he encounters a dreary situation. Le Bistro, a small French restaurant, is barely surviving, and the head chef, Andy, has no idea why. He doesn’t believe there is anything wrong with the food, service or dining experience. When Chef Ramsay finds out that he and Chef Andy share similar culinary training, he is in disbelief. Can Ramsay cook up a plan that will get through to the stubborn chef and revive this sinking ship?
    • 5. Lido di Manhattan Beach

      18 Feb '11
      Gordon visits the Lido Di Manhattan restaurant in California. Ambitious business graduate Lisa bought the restaurant when she was 23 but five years later, she's worried she picked the wrong venture.
    • 6. Le Bistro

      25 Feb '11
      Gordon visits a husband-and-wife-run bistro in Florida. Stubborn and dictatorial Scottish chef and owner Andy has cooked for celebrated chefs in the past, but now he's lost his passion for cooking.
    • 7. Casa Roma

      11 Mar '11
      Chef Ramsay heads to Lancaster, California to help out an Italian restaurant called in Casa Roma. The owners are clueless when it comes to getting people in the restaurant and how to help manage the kitchen. The restaurant is merely surviving on the packed bar area.
    • 8. Mama Rita's

      18 Mar '11
      Chef Ramsay helps a woman with her struggling Mexican restaurant that is facing foreclosure.
    • 9. Anna Vincenzo's

      25 Mar '11
      Gordon visits an Italian restaurant in Florida. Owner CeCe has lost her way in the kitchen and on top of that, refuses to take any criticism and battles Gordon every step of the way.
    • 10. Revisited #2

      15 Apr '11
    • 11. Fleming

      29 Apr '11
      Gordon visits Fleming, a Danish restaurant in Miami, Florida. It was once the best family-run restaurant in town, but now something is seriously wrong. Can Gordon save their bacon?
    • 12. Sushi Ko

      06 May '11
      Gordon goes to California to help the owners of Sushi Ko who are losing up to $20,000 a month. Owner Akira is a shadow of his former self and his two children long to see their father smile again.
    • 13. Revisited #1

      13 May '11
    • 14. Oceana*

      20 May '11
      Actually part of season 4. In the season finale of Kitchen Nightmares, has Chef Ramsay met his match? The culinary master visits another restaurant struggling to keep its doors open. Find out if Ramsay can help pull the establishment from the brink of failure on the season finale of Kitchen Nightmares.