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Kitchen Nightmares: The Burger Kitchen Part 1

Kitchen Nightmares Season 5 continues tonight when Chef Gordon Ramsay visits a 16-month old restaurant in Los Angeles, California – The Burger Kitchen. The previews show that the family-owned place is a sinking ship: the members do not respect each other, the chef yells at the owners, and the food is a disaster. This 5th installment of the season is so intense the producers divided it into two chapters.

Tonight’s episode started off with the father (Alan) proclaiming his expertise on meat, so he fulfills his dreams of running a restaurant by opening The Burger Kitchen using his son’s (Daniel) money, without the latter knowing about it.

Daniel didn’t want to open a restaurant. But it was too late, and he was dragged into the hole.

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Kitchen Nightmares: Spanish Pavillion Restaurant and Cocktail Lounge

Spanish Pavillion Owners: Jerry, Balbina, Michael

Kitchen Nightmares Season 4 kicks off tonight featuring a family-run restaurant established in 1976 in Harrison, New Jersey: Spanish Pavillion. It is owned by a mother (Balbina) and her two sons – Michael and Jerry.

Greeted by  dead lobsters and waiters wearing full tuxedos, Chef Gordon Ramsay knows immediately that the restaurant is in a bad spot. The horrible food pretty much is the nail in the coffin. Chef Ramsay’s first dinner service confirms it: food are returned to the kitchen, because there’s no quality control in the line.

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Kitchen Nightmares: Hot Potato Café

Season 3 of Kitchen Nightmares debuts as Chef Gordon Ramsay pays a visit to a failing restaurant in Philadelphia to find out what’s wrong with their potatoes, after a local newspaper called it “Spuddy Hell” just eight months after Hot Potato Cafe opened in 2008.

The funny thing is, none of the owners (who are all sisters) offered potato to Chef Ramsay when he asked for a specialty recommendation for his food tasting.

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Kitchen Nightmares: Trobiano’s Italian Dining

Trobiano’s Italian Dining – a family-run restaurant that is in debt for half-a-million dollars, in Great Neck, New York is featured in tonight episode of Kitchen Nightmares. The restaurant is actually named and run by the future son-in-law – Anthony Trobiano – the arrogant chef who happens to be the boyfriend of the daughter of the owners.

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Kitchen Nightmares: The Mixing Bowl Eatery

For some reasons, this 3rd episode of Kitchen Nightmares Season 1 is one of my favorites. Maybe the reason why is because I can relate to the head chef/owner Billy for his quietness, as I am a man of few words myself.

In hindsight, after watching several Kitchen Nightmares episodes (youtube and reruns), Chef Gordon Ramsay is very rarely impressed by food. But the first food he tasted in The Mixing Bowl Eatery – the “Award-winning” Crab Cake – gets his approval in terms of freshness, despite concluding that the restaurant is on its last legs. The producers usually show the status of the kitchens and the refrigerators if they are dirty or not being maintained, but they didn’t do that in The Mixing Bowl restaurant, which makes me think that the place’s kitchen is probably spotless.

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