Lauren Stewart
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Smoked salmon and not gravadlax?
The winkers buying readymade cakes. They have to go.
The winkers buying readymade cakes. They have to go.
The Restaurant 2009
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Kimberly L
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Those women with the knives trying to open the coconut scared the living daylights out of me 
I thought at any moment we'd be seeing blood
Mind you, I've also seen them opened with machetes in the Caribbean and THAT was extremely unsettling too. Pesky things coconuts!!
It's hard to believe that THIS shower was the best of the applicants. They must be choosing for entertainment value and not actual cooking ability
I'll stick with it though as I've really enjoyed the previous series and next weeks looks really good when they all get shoved in at the deep end of the popular chain restaurants 
I thought at any moment we'd be seeing blood Mind you, I've also seen them opened with machetes in the Caribbean and THAT was extremely unsettling too. Pesky things coconuts!!
It's hard to believe that THIS shower was the best of the applicants. They must be choosing for entertainment value and not actual cooking ability
I'll stick with it though as I've really enjoyed the previous series and next weeks looks really good when they all get shoved in at the deep end of the popular chain restaurants worldwidedub
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Who can forget the completely gormless couple at Ray White's and their Mexican Night?
a_nicole313
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Looks like I have stirred this up a bit -
horwichallstars - fair comment on the show, and I can't say I have watched the previos series. I'm not saying anyone neeRAB to be a cook / business owner to comment, just that people are trying to comment on what makes good / bad TV based on views as to what RB should / should not do in choosing a winner!
georgeshair - fair points too, but maybe RB's failing is that he didn't share with us the details of each retaurant's covers, profit etc, as I think he did in previous series?
PS In the interests of having a good debate I didn's say that I thought JJ and James were the most unlikeable and annoying couple on the show, I hate cocktails, and the concept of a picnic restaurant is about as useful as a "Picnic concept sofa" consisting of a rug littered with grass and sheep poo on your sitting room floor!
horwichallstars - fair comment on the show, and I can't say I have watched the previos series. I'm not saying anyone neeRAB to be a cook / business owner to comment, just that people are trying to comment on what makes good / bad TV based on views as to what RB should / should not do in choosing a winner!
georgeshair - fair points too, but maybe RB's failing is that he didn't share with us the details of each retaurant's covers, profit etc, as I think he did in previous series?
PS In the interests of having a good debate I didn's say that I thought JJ and James were the most unlikeable and annoying couple on the show, I hate cocktails, and the concept of a picnic restaurant is about as useful as a "Picnic concept sofa" consisting of a rug littered with grass and sheep poo on your sitting room floor!
POTC fangrl
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Bwahahaha buying the cakes from a shop! This reminRAB me of Come Dine With Me!
This reminRAB me of Come Dine With Me! asgodintended
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It's a pity Chris ? can't drop Nathan and bring in a new FOH. I suppose he should have known what Nathan would be like though. They should have known how important teamwork is in stressful situations.
People will go there to check it out and all the controversy only makes them more likely to do so I think. It keeps them in people's minRAB.
There is such a thing as bad publicity but I don't think this is it. Their food wasn't bad, it just wasn't cooked by the "chef" and people consistently raved about their cocktails. I didn't like either of the pair on the show but I'd probably still go to the restaurant if I were in the area, just to see what it was like and if it was good I'd end up going back.
Your post is self-contradictory: you say that his decision was "self-seving" yet claim it will harm his business. That makes no sense.
The whole point of the show is for them to pick the ones they want to set up a business with. Why are people surprised that they picked the credible business people rather than the dreadful novice waiter and the chef whose food came out late and cold?
There is such a thing as bad publicity but I don't think this is it. Their food wasn't bad, it just wasn't cooked by the "chef" and people consistently raved about their cocktails. I didn't like either of the pair on the show but I'd probably still go to the restaurant if I were in the area, just to see what it was like and if it was good I'd end up going back.
Your post is self-contradictory: you say that his decision was "self-seving" yet claim it will harm his business. That makes no sense.
The whole point of the show is for them to pick the ones they want to set up a business with. Why are people surprised that they picked the credible business people rather than the dreadful novice waiter and the chef whose food came out late and cold?
beagle171717
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But going into the garden to gather the produce might have involved some work.
white_and_nerdy_93
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Have to agree with everyone series 1 and 2 were excellent, series 3 was so bad and fixed I coulnd't bear to watch.
I suppose it was an expensive series to produce for the BBC. I mean handing over about 8 empty restaurants to the couples at the start must be expensive. I'm sure this money didn't come from RB.
I suppose it was an expensive series to produce for the BBC. I mean handing over about 8 empty restaurants to the couples at the start must be expensive. I'm sure this money didn't come from RB.
on the surface of it, I agree, but lets see how it pans out.
I remember a lot of Torchwood fans being up in arms about the format change for that show for series 3 this year and it turned out to be the best thing to have happened to it, so you can never tell...
I think the biggest hurdle for them to overcome is that the bar was set pretty high last year on the entertainment front, so they have a lot to live up to.
Looking forward to it muchly though!
I remember a lot of Torchwood fans being up in arms about the format change for that show for series 3 this year and it turned out to be the best thing to have happened to it, so you can never tell...
I think the biggest hurdle for them to overcome is that the bar was set pretty high last year on the entertainment front, so they have a lot to live up to.
Looking forward to it muchly though!
Staypuff MarshMallow Man
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This reinforces what several posters are saying - that none of this year's couples would have survived this far if they had been up against last year's.
I have just re-run the inspectors' comments for Laura and Peter (The Welsh Wok). Peter was criticised for not being in charge of the kitchen - letting the sous chef run it - and David Moore says "...that's not the sort of partner Raymond would want". *
So why are the winkers still in? Answer - because there are good reasons the others had to go before they did.
*You can see that by clicking on watch against "The Inspectors on Laura and Peter" here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/restaurant/restaurateurs/restaurateurs_6.shtml
I have just re-run the inspectors' comments for Laura and Peter (The Welsh Wok). Peter was criticised for not being in charge of the kitchen - letting the sous chef run it - and David Moore says "...that's not the sort of partner Raymond would want". *
So why are the winkers still in? Answer - because there are good reasons the others had to go before they did.
*You can see that by clicking on watch against "The Inspectors on Laura and Peter" here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/restaurant/restaurateurs/restaurateurs_6.shtml
Discounicorn
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That task was insane and the hardiest brief for any of the cakes. I have a cake business and no way could I do that in the time (3 days from order minimum subject to other orders pending), the icing has to harden apart from anything else. Thinking about it I would probably cost the job so high I wouldn't have to do it anyway
Tenshi_No_Shikatsu
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Too expensive I