Know Any Failing Restaurants For Gordon Ramsay's 'Kitchen Nightmares' Show?
Fox's Kitchen Nightmares is looking for bad-shape restaurants that need Gordon Ramsay's magic hands. Aren't all restaurants in less-than-good-shape right now with diners so freaked about the economy? Maybe this season Fox will receive a record number of submissions.
The casting directors sound pretty anxious. From an e-mail: "PLEASE CONTACT US IMMEDIATELY."
Struggling restaurateurs should send the following info to Twinsworld1@aol.com: name, contact info (including phone number), restaurant name, location (city/state), type of cuisine, your specialty, how many seats you have, how long you have been open, photos or website if available, and why you need Ramsay's help. "The MORE INFO THE BETTER."
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11 Comments:
Give it a little more time. I don't think there's going to be a dearth of failing restaurants anytime soon.
Adam Kuban at 12:37PM on 01/08/09
Union Smith on (duh) Smith and Union in Brooklyn. That place has potential--pretty good food, decent crowd, promising menu--but the service is atrocious and the food isn't consistent. Just the type of place I would love to see Gordon dropping the f-bomb.
SarahElizabethT at 1:30PM on 01/08/09
I was just talking about this last week! In my neighborhood (Park Slope, Brooklyn) there is a new-ish diner-ish thing called Delicious on the Slope which is terrifying. I am pretty sure they are laundering money because they have very few customers and extortionist prices ($4 for a bagel with cream cheese) in a dismal, fluorescent atmosphere. I would love to see something useful/yummy/pretty at this location!
chapsholic at 1:38PM on 01/08/09
I fantasize about Gordon Ramsay arriving at Eurotrip and screaming at the owner to discard 75% of the menu.
Michele Humes at 2:58PM on 01/08/09
An AOL email address? The KN website gives KitchenNightmares@theconlincompany.com ... that AOL addy makes me feel like you give all that info and a key for them to scope it out one night, and the next day everything in the restaurant is stolen! :P
Big B at 6:55PM on 01/08/09
I miss the UK series, wasn't so fakey.
Please, no more NY Italian places, please!
peekpoke at 6:59PM on 01/08/09
It was fun to watch for awhile, but now it's the same thing all the time:
Gordon arrives at tacky, family owned restaurant specializing in Sysco food, pronounces everything swill, reorganizes the place while acting as family therapist to the bullying/cowardly/megalomaniaical owner, they blow it on the first night, he nearly gets in a fistfight with the owner, the owner has an epiphany and regains his passion for cooking, and the restaurant is, at least for the immediate future, successful. The end.
He should go to Kingston NY. There are lots of places run by idiots there.
chanterelle at 9:33PM on 01/08/09
Please do something about "Flipsters".. formally known as "Brooklyn Burger Bar" on 7th Avenue in Park Slope.. it remains as horrendous as it was before the name change.
ontherok at 9:17AM on 01/09/09
The Olive Garden near my house is going down the tubes. Send help and restore it to its former grandeur. A couple of the area Subways are also a bit weak.
Remander at 9:24AM on 01/09/09
@Remander,
Absolutely hilarious. Thanks for the laugh.
As far as Kitchen Nightmares, I'm partial to the UK version. I can't stand the narrator in the US version (who I think is the same one from Hell's Kitchen). It just makes it seem so contrived.
dineomite at 10:30AM on 01/09/09
Amen to sara.
factandfancy at 9:26PM on 01/09/09