The Restaurant 2009

YAY it's finally back!! Thanks for the heaRAB up.

Oooh I'm so looking forward to the new series! I wonder if we'll be hearing more about Tatty and Gimpy's series? I'm so pleased they're going to be back on TV- long live T&G!! :)
 
That's my take on it - I seem to be one of the few who actually preferred this series to the first two, once I "got" around Programme 3/4 that no one was getting evicted on the issue of culinary skills, and the tasks were blatantly set up for disasters and dramatic emotional meltdowns. I severely doubt that this was set up with the Winkers in mind - surely it would have been much easier to make them look less like the Chuckle brothers through the edit.

I'd only add that I've got more than a little suspicion that the final stages were produced with more than one eye on a "What happened next" follow-up series - from the reaction here it may have been a miscalculation, but I'll be watching if it emerges :cool:.

In particular the souffle gave us five minutes of brilliant RTV comedy - by the time Nathan's half of the table realised there was a party going on chez Lady Arran, I was in hysterics. :D

.... but surely a failed souffle is invariably a sagging sack or a beer mat ... what are the chances of it being the foundation for a riproaring cocktail.?

The most obvious answer to "Why the Winkers?" would be that strip away the pork pies and the served in picnic hampers nonsense, it's actually a half-decent idea. Aiming at the young fills a gap in the RB empire, Sarah comes from Planet Hollywood experience - I'd have thought if they can keep the prices high, serving cocktails matched with smallish platters of food would give a decent profit margin and a niche on the high street which was what the intro told us was the point every single week,
 
Maybe they dashed out to the garden to pick them ;)

The comment that really annoyed me was Sarah's gushing 'ohh JJ's managed to make a cocktail that resembles a souffle' .... no he hasn't you silly moo, he's added some fizz to a drink ...
 
I've just come in & caught the end of the programme. Not sure I want to watch the rest now.

Wasn't it Nathan/Chris who said they thought they were going to win it? Job done then. Pride before a fall & all that..it's obviously the winkers that win. :confused:
 
I think they were nicknamed the winkers after week 1 when JJ kept winking at Raymond, and RB pulled him up on it, though either nickname would suit them :D
 
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