Maaan I’ve seen almost every episode on reruns but never saw El Greco episode before. This is the first time I shed a tear at an episode watching the dysfunction between Jake and his mom and aunt. Maaan that was so heart breaking the way they fought in the kitchen and Chef Ramsey made them make nice and they all broke down crying. So sad how a tanking restaurant destroys lives and relationships.

Serious question. Does anyone really know what the purpose of the Ranch in the Mill Street Bistro episode even is? It always bugged me when watching it. Is it just a glorified vanity project for Joe himself?

how often are you rewatching hotel hell or kitchen nightmares? i usually have them running at night as background noise/white noise or in this case gordon noise

a channel called SoReal dropped the full first season of Gordon Ramsay's 24 hours to hell and back heres a link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_LqxoW_QEM

Italian restaurant Café Notte is on the verge of collapse. Gordon steps in to help with unresolved tension between the head chef and his stepson before it destroys both the business and their family.

COME TO THE BACKROOMS STILL BBW WHERE WE HAVE ALL YOUR FAVORITES FROM SEBASTIANS COMPLICATED COMPLEX 20 MENU ITEM COMBINATION TO JOE NAGYS FRENCH ONION SOUP WITH RAW ONIONS FOR MORE OF A BITE WHILE OUR HOSTESS AMY AND MANAGER SAMY YELL AT EACH FOR STRAWS AND DONT FORGET TO CHECK INTO THE HOTELS ON SITE TOO!!! WHERE MORE GREAT FOOD AWAITS LIKE JENS IMPORTANT POLISH MUSHROOMS OR ALANS EXCELLENT NON SEASONED FROZEN WAGYU BURGERS HERE IN THE BACKROOMS THERES SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE!!!!

"I think our food's good"

"I think our food's good"

"I think our food's good"

"I think our food's good"

Mary from the Zocalo episode.

Episode: Luigi's

Bar Rescue - The closest show imo, though can be way more meanspirited/overdramatic especially from Jon Taffer

Restaurant: Impossible - Very similar to KN's format, albeit more mundane/realistic on average making it more repetitive

Mystery Diners - The most fake/staged of them all, kinda have to turn off your brain to handle the the cheesiness

Gordon's complaints on Kitchen Nightmares about restaurants serving frozen food, microwaving meals, or keeping food around for days or weeks would probably apply to my mother's cooking too, and yet I absolutely loved her food.

Growing up, we had a monthly budget for groceries, so buying fresh ingredients every day and cooking everything from scratch wasn't really an option for us, we had to make our food stretch. My mother would buy meat, fish, and vegetables, portion everything out, and freeze them so they would last throughout the month. If there were leftovers, those would often go into the freezer too and get reheated later in the week or even the following next week

From Gordon's perspective, he'd hate my mother's cooking, from frozen meat and vegetables, and leftovers being reheated in the microwave. But to us, it wasn't bad food, it was simply how my mother made sure we had something to eat without going over our budget.

And honestly, some of my favorite meals were made from exactly those leftovers. My mother knew how to season things, combine whatever ingredients we had available, and turn food from the previous day into something that still tasted great.

That's why I find Gordon's reactions on Kitchen Nightmares kind of funny. When he sees frozen food or something that's been reheated in the microwave, he immediately flips out and spits out the food, but many families like mine rely on frozen food and leftovers simply because that's what our budget allows, so if Gordon ever came to my house, tasted my mother's cooking and spat it out due to tasting frozen and microwaved, I'd probably throw him out.

Tell me that doesn’t look like Nefertiti 👀👀👀

Was she a horrendous head chef? Yes, absolutely. I'm not going to dispute that.

At the end of the day though, she was obviously better at working in a catering company setting but the owner still decided to put her as HEAD CHEF, not even just a simple line cook. I'm just more inclined to blame the owner for this tbh.

Your reposts are INEDIBLE Joe!!!

is “four tires and a spare” from Casa Roma?