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Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares : Season 2
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Air date: 24 May '05 - 8 episodesRamsay's Kitchen Nightmares is a television programme featuring British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay. The BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning programme debuted on Channel 4 in 2004. In each episode, Ramsay visits a failing restaurant and acts as a troubleshooter to help improve the establishment in just one week. Ramsay revisits the restaurant a few months later to see how business has fared in his absence. Episodes from series one and two have been re-edited with additional new material as Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited; they featured Ramsay checking up on restaurants a year or more after he attended to them. In October 2009 Ramsay announced that after his four-year contract expired in 2011 he would not continue with Kitchen Nightmares and would instead work on his other shows. A one-off special entitled Ramsay's Great British Nightmare aired on Channel 4 on 30 January 2009 as part of 'The Great British Food Fight', a two week series of food-related programming. In the program, Ramsay...
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List of Episodes (8)
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Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (2004)
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1. La Lanterna
24 May '05The venue for the first programme is La Lanterna in Letchworth, Hertfordshire. Twenty-eight-year-old owner and head chef Alex offers modern Italian cuisine, a taste of Little Italy in England's first garden city, and the restaurant is run by his best mate, maitre d' Gavin, helped by Alex's ex-air hostess girlfriend Emily. Alex has no customers, cookers that don't work and an expensive menu that's about as authentically Italian as a Hawaiian Pizza. He re-mortgaged his house to buy the business,
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Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (2004)
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2. D-Place
31 May '05Mexican-born Israel and his English partner Tara have sunk a cool £150,000 of their own money into their trendy cafe bar D-Place, which offers a vast selection of fusion cuisine. They believed they had found the WINNING FORMULA: great place, great music, great service, great food... and all at the right price. Sounds promising... but from there on it's all DOWNHILL. For the first two years, it all went swimmingly as Israel built up a mini-empire of five businesses... but the success didn't
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Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (2004)
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3. Momma Cherri's Soul Food Shack
07 Jun '05Momma Cherri's Soul Food Shack has hit ROCK BOTTOM. It's sounds SO GOOD: an intimate 40-seater a stone's throw from Brighton's sea front with loads of hungry locals and a steady stream of tourists. Big soul momma, owner Charita Jones produces a menu of irresistibly unique classics from the Deep South. Should be a surefire MONEYSPINNER, right? Wrong... the shack is in a hole... a very deep FINANCIAL HOLE. Despite three and a half years of hard graft it's a SPLITTING HEADACHE of a cafe. The
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Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (2004)
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4. La Riviera
14 Jun '05What's the BEST RECIPE for a successful restaurant? Top French chefs, the finest ingredients, food fit for a king... Fine dining restaurant La Riviera in Inverness has it all and more. All except one teeny weeny thing... CUSTOMERS. Without them, you don't stand a CHANCE. And La Riviera is running out of TIME and MONEY. La Riviera is on a MISSION: to bring sophisticated French cuisine to the home of haggis, tatties and deep-fried Mars bars. So it's the BEST of everything. It boasts a real
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Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (2004)
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5. The Glass House (Revisited)
21 Jun '05Have things gotten any better since Gordon left?
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Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (2004)
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6. The Walnut Tree Inn (Revisited)
28 Jun '05What's happened since the last time Gordon was here?
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Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (2004)
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7. Moore Place (Revisited)
05 Jul '05Gordon Ramsey returns to Moore Place.
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Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (2004)
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8. Bonaparte's Restaurant (Revisited)
12 Jul '05Gordon Ramsey returns to Bonaparte's Restaurant.
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