Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares
Format	Cooking show
Starring	Gordon Ramsay
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of seasons	5
No. of episodes	31 (23 original and 8 revisits)
Production
Running time	44 Minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Channel 4
Original run	27 April 2004 – present
Chronology
Related shows	Kitchen Nightmares
External links
Official website

Ramsay'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 current four-year contract expires in 2011 he will not continue with Kitchen Nightmares and will instead work on his other shows.^[1]

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 campaigned for viewers to start supporting local restaurants, especially in a bad economy.

An American adaptation of this show, titled Kitchen Nightmares, debuted 19 September 2007, on Fox.

Contents 1 Episodes 1.1 Series 1 1.2 Series 2 1.3 Series 3 1.4 Series 4 1.5 Series 5 1.6 Great British Nightmare 2 Libel 3 Reception 4 DVD releases 4.1 United States 4.2 Canada 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Episodes

The following restaurants have been featured on Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. Name changes reflect information presented on the original or Revisited episodes.

[edit] Series 1

#	Restaurant	Location	Original airdate
1.	Bonapartes Restaurant	Silsden, England	27 April, 2004
2.	The Glass House	Ambleside, England	4 May, 2004
3.	The Walnut Tree Inn	Llandewi Skirrid, Wales	11 May, 2004
4.	Moore Place	Esher, England	18 May, 2004

[edit] Series 2

#	Restaurant	Location	Original airdate
1.	La Lanterna	Letchworth, England	24 May, 2005
2.	D-Place[1]	Chelmsford, England	31 May, 2005
3.	Momma Cherri's Soul Food Shack	Brighton, England	7 June, 2005
4.	La Riviera[2]	Inverness, Scotland	14 June, 2005
5.	The Glass House[3]	Ambleside, England	21 May, 2005
6.	The Walnut Tree Inn[3]	Llandewi Skirrid, Wales	28 May, 2005
7.	Moore Place[3]	Esher, England	5 July, 2005
8.	Bonapartes Restaurant[3]	Silsden, England	12 July, 2005

Note 1: Renamed Saracen's Cafe Bar during production
Note 2: Now called Abstract
Note 3: Revisited Episode

[edit] Series 3

#	Restaurant	Location	Original airdate
1.	Oscar's	Nantwich, England	21 February, 2006
2.	The Sandgate Hotel	Sandgate, England	28 February, 2006
3.	Clubway 41[1]	Blackpool, England	7 March, 2006
4.	La Gondola	Derby, England	14 March, 2006

Note 1: Renamed Jacksons during production

[edit] Series 4

#	Restaurant	Location	Original airdate
1.	La Parra de Burriana	Nerja, Spain	14 November, 2006
2.	The Fenwick Arms	Claughton, England	21 November, 2006
3.	Rococo[1]	King's Lynn, England	28 November, 2006
4.	Morgans	Liverpool, England	5 December, 2006
5.	La Riviera[2][4]	Inverness, Scotland	12 December, 2006
6.	Momma Cherri's Soul Food Shack[3][4]	Brighton, England	19 December, 2006

Note 1: Renamed Maggie's during production
Note 2: Renamed Abstract after production
Note 3: Later moved to larger premises and renamed Momma Cherri's Big House
Note 4: Revisited Episode

[edit] Series 5

#	Restaurant	Location	Original airdate
1.	Ruby Tate's[1]	Brighton, England	30 October, 2007
2.	Piccolo Teatro	Paris, France	6 November, 2007
3.	The Fenwick Arms[2]	Claughton, England	13 November, 2007
4.	La Parra de Burriana[2]	Nerja, Spain	20 November, 2007
5.	The Priory	Haywards Heath, England	27 November, 2007
6.	The Fish and Anchor	Lampeter, Wales	4 December, 2007
7.	Curry Lounge	Nottingham, England	11 December, 2007
8.	The Granary	Titchfield, England	18 December, 2007

Note 1: Renamed Love's Fish Restaurant during production
Note 2: Revisited Episodes

[edit] Great British Nightmare

#	Restaurant	Location	Original airdate
1.	Runaway Girl[1]	Sheffield, England	30th January, 2009
2.	The Dovecote Bistro[2]	Devon, England	30th January, 2009

Note 1: Renamed Silversmiths
Note 2: Renamed Martins' Bistro

[edit] Libel

In June 2006, Ramsay won a High Court case against the Evening Standard, which had alleged, after reports from previous owner of Bonapartes, Sue Ray, that scenes and the general condition of the restaurant, which was the subject of the first episode of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, had been faked. Ramsay was awarded £75,000 plus costs.^[2] Ramsay said at the time: "I won't let people write anything they want to about me. We have never done anything in a cynical, fake way."

[edit] Reception

The programme has received favorable reviews for its in-depth look into the restaurant industry. Jane Redfem of Off the Telly commented that the show "could have been cynically designed to exploit Ramsay's foul-mouthed reputation...But watch, listen and think about what he is saying, and his genuine commitment to his profession in general, and the task at hand become abundantly evident."^[3] Lorna Martin of The Observer said "Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares is compulsive viewing - packed with excitement, emotion and entertainment."^[4] Slate's Sara Dickerman was impressed by the show's "economic realism" in the tired food television genre. She wrote, "There is something refreshing about a show that doesn't promise a ticket to ride (a surgical makeover, a million dollars, Richard Branson's job) but instead offers restaurant owners the hope—if they seriously reform their establishments—that they might, just might, break even for the next few months."^[5]

Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares was named Best Feature at the 2005^[6] and 2008 BAFTA awards.^[7] It also earned the 2006 International Emmy for best non-scripted entertainment.^[6]

[edit] DVD releases

[edit] United States

On March 3, 2009, Acorn Media released season 1 of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares on DVD in the US. Season 2 was released on September 1, 2009. [1]

Name	Ep#	Release Date
Season One	8	March 3, 2009
Season Two	10	September 1, 2009

[edit] Canada

For the Canadian market, Visual Entertainment has released the first 3 seasons of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares on DVD in two volume sets.

Name	Ep#	Release Date
Volume 1	8	October 16, 2007 [8]
Volume 2	10	October 7, 2008 [9]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares at IMDb
• Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares at Channel4.com
• Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares at BBC America
• Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares at Food Network Canada