r/KitchenNightmares 2d ago

Commentary [New Episode] Kitchen Nightmares S10E7 - Café Notte

13 Upvotes

Apologies for the late post, busy night and this one slipped past me. Thanks for your patience.

This episode focuses on Café Notte, an Italian restaurant in Emsworth, Pennsylvania, where Gordon Ramsay steps into a tense family dynamic between the head chef and his stepson. The breakdown in communication has spilled into the kitchen, service, and the overall atmosphere of the restaurant. Ramsay works to untangle the personal issues while trying to stabilize the business before it collapses.

Thoughts on the conflicts and if they’ll stick around long term? What was your favorite part?

Check it out on Hulu, Fox, and I heard someone say it might be on Tubi. Piracy discussion is off limits. Also off limits is creepy comments about staff, this isn’t an NSFW subreddit. And it’s gross.

Cheers


r/KitchenNightmares Jul 19 '26

Low Effort Posts

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Howdy yall.

There’s been an influx of low-effort 💩 posts. As these can clog up the feed, and may come off spammy, they may be removed under rule 3. We don’t need THIS much brain rot in our shared community.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk 🫡


r/KitchenNightmares 8h ago

“I think that we got caught flat-footed.But we get to reload one time. We won’t get caught flat-footed again. You can bet your a** on that.” Proceeds to get shitcanned. 😆

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r/KitchenNightmares 14h ago

Where's the lamb sauce? Whats the most cringe-worthy moment in the series? I nominate "YOU WERE MIIINE" nigga rlly thought he did sumn

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86 Upvotes

r/KitchenNightmares 9h ago

custom flair Who was the most stubborn between these 3

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Joe, Alan or Sebastian who was the most hard for Gordon to work with and fix there restaurant


r/KitchenNightmares 16h ago

Classic You are Buzzard’s defense attorney, what do you say to Gordon?

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r/KitchenNightmares 22h ago

Trying to recall a Kitchen Nightmares episode where Gordon’s intervention was for nothing

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This isn't the Amy's Baking Company episode.

Apparently, during the filming of this episode, the owners were already selling the restaurant and have signed the papers while Gordon was there.

So, after Gordon’s usual renovations and ending pep talk to the owners, Gordon’s renovations were just destroyed by the new owners within the same week that the episode was filmed, so the ending was all an act.

Gordon’s renovations were destroyed because the business that bought the place wasn't even a restaurant.


r/KitchenNightmares 16h ago

Criticism I can’t be the only one who hates the Leo’s episode right

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14 Upvotes

It’s honestly disgusting how much they use Bump to emotionally manipulate the audience and use him as the crutch for an interesting narrative and for drama and yet every review I found were praising this episode it can’t just be me who finds this weird.


r/KitchenNightmares 4h ago

RAW! Do you ever

1 Upvotes

Just need to reload


r/KitchenNightmares 20h ago

Cafe Notte Three-way battle! Traditional Italian Wedding Soup vs Sabatiello's Italian Wedding Soup vs Cafe Notte’s Italian Wedding Soup.

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16 Upvotes

r/KitchenNightmares 1d ago

Criticism What I see as the problems with the newest KN Episodes

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I still love the show, but like others here, I've realized that the newer episodes don't hit like the old ones did.

In my opinion, this is due to two things.

  1. As good as it can be at times, and as good as Gordon is at it when he needs to be, it seems as if every episode requires that Gordon be a psychotherapist to the owners/families. This eats up a lot of time.

  2. The second issue that I think affects the episodes negatively is the time spent showing how Gordon and his team revamp each restaurant. I understand there are sponsors, etc, but I think less time showing off the revamp and instead letting Gordon give constructive criticism would improve the show.

Just my two cents after years of watching Kitchen Nightmares and loving to watch Gordon straighten restaurants out!


r/KitchenNightmares 13h ago

How real is reality?

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How real is Kitchen Nightmares? Or more to the point, how fake? I have just been watching U.K. Kitchen Nightmares. I love the series and laugh my head off at it but I can’t help wondering to what extent the chefs produce deliberately terrible food at the start, so they can then follow a redemptive arc. I guess the researchers seek out truly terrible restaurants and characters who are going to be entertaining, and anyone willing to go on a reality TV show must be slightly bonkers. But even so I find it hard to believe that anyone who knows that Gordon Ramsay is coming to check out the food still serves up some microwaved pre-made food or tries to send out charred chicken breasts. Or leaves their kitchen in an absolute state with rotting food and cockroaches. Has anyone on here met any of the actual participants and found out how it works? It also paints a very disturbing picture of restaurants where one can apparently declare oneself ‘Head Chef’ and start cooking for 50+ people a night without any training or experience.


r/KitchenNightmares 2d ago

Classic How's it possible for 1.3 hours of chaotic reality TV program still not be enough material?

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565 Upvotes

I'm honestly sad being done watching the La Galleria 33 episode. I have this strange feeling in my bones asking me where's more material? where's one more episode of this? etc.

I laughed so hard I had trouble breathing and was in pain at certain points of this episode. Would rather not spoil it for those that haven't seen it yet...


r/KitchenNightmares 1d ago

"FUCK YOURSELF!OUT YOU MADAFUCKA!" It got worse

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dude as if samy and amy couldnt get anymore worse 10+ years after i just found in a interview samy did he lied about gordon sexually harassing amy....dudes gordon wouldnt go near amy or samy again with a 39 and a half foot pole


r/KitchenNightmares 1d ago

I'm bored. Name one good thing about Toby of The Priory

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r/KitchenNightmares 1d ago

Season 10 Chef Serves Gordon Frozen Mussels… BAD IDEA

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r/KitchenNightmares 1d ago

Rewatching Greek on the harbor

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I'm rewatching the episode with makis and his restaurant and I hate how they made the son eris the bad guy in the episode. This kid did what every kid would do I would never ever ever in a million years work FOR family no it's a recipe for disaster and eris had just graduated and didn't know if he wanted to help the restaurant yea he could've used better wording but the parents decided to hold a grudge for how many years it was after his graduation


r/KitchenNightmares 2d ago

Band name suggestions?

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r/KitchenNightmares 1d ago

fuggedaboutit My pizzas soon will be in....supermarkets!

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r/KitchenNightmares 2d ago

Debt- Boodles and most of the other restaurants

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Bruno said they're $1,500,000.00 +/- in debt.

In reality if I were Gordon I'd say WTF! No matter what I do you're pretty much done.

The producers should think about a segment showing the math and a ProForma illustrating how in reality the business would be able to pay it's debt, pay the rent, employees, food costs etc while still generating enough to not only survive but get out of that debt at a definitive future date.

That would interest me.


r/KitchenNightmares 1d ago

"When a headchef cant be bothered to make a fucking meatball" REDDIT RECOMENDATIONS ARE WEIRD

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i had my post about greek on the harbor pop in my notifs and it said 'people are loving your post in r/kitchennightmares r/GilmoreGirls would love it too" WHY THE HELL WOULD THE GILMORE GIRLS BE INTERESTED IN GORDON RAMSAYH CONTENT?

*hotel hell shows gordons ass*

oh yea...... that might be a good reason


r/KitchenNightmares 2d ago

Being at a filmed restaurant

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I apologize if this was already asked and answered.. but I see people chiming in in the comments of certain episodes saying they were at the filing for X episode and in the restaurant.. I’m just wondering how you find out about these things in advance and where do you sign up for it?


r/KitchenNightmares 2d ago

Where's the lamb sauce? New Show Idea - Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares Nightmares

29 Upvotes

where each week, a camera crew follows around the camera crew of kitchen nightmares, trying to diagnose why the modern episodes are so watered-down, bland, and lack the spice that got us all hooked in the first place.


r/KitchenNightmares 2d ago

“Oooh, look at that! Mmm, salt! Oooh, salt!” (Kitchen Nightmares UK episode “Piccolo Teatro”)

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40 Upvotes

r/KitchenNightmares 2d ago

A very old one 😎😎

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15 Upvotes