The Restaurant 2009

Check out the food menu on JJ's cocktail site. Seems a bit 'picnic-y' to me...

Loving your critiques Buck! :D:D:D

Good episode: Sean's oratory moment: WTF! Shut up and give me some food that you haven't seasoned with your own sweat.

Loved JJ's incredibly pink chest. Huh? How'd it get that colour? Do you think he rubs pepto-bismol into it to fend off indigestion? Wierd, yet strangely hypnotic. I couldn't tear my eyes away, despite finding it rather nauseating.

Also James: 'But you're having fun though?'
Customer: 'No.' [Thinking: Where's my food you idiotically coiffured knob?]

I'm not fond of Rebecca, but bless her for trying the sushi, I felt for her. Though I do wish her husband would stop saying that she sells sea-shells - no sorry - shit houses. Imagine having bought one off her...

Loving Chris and Nathan's competence. Well done. I hope they go far, their enthusiasm is just heartening to see.

All in all, I think the right people went. The pizza makers had the easiest time of it, No! Sushi and Tampopoponofoodforanhour were more complex and, on with only one days training, hard to master. Even I can make a pizza; ok, I don't wander down to the local pizzaria and decide to feed 50 people; but it's still easier than six different types of noodle dishes (they looked yummy!) and a dozen different types of sushi (ditto on the yummy).

Had to laugh at Badger's mobilisation of the non-plussed customers: 'You'll be my doormen.' Not even a question, but a command. Don't you dare move, I don't care if you want a meal, protect the perimeter...
 
None of these deserve to be in the final 3!

JJ and James are the equivilant of Jedward. THEY CANNOT COOK...BUT ARE RUNNING A RESTARAUNT........!

And Nathan can only be described as a person who plays with themself
 
I've just read RB's blog and I don't understand where Chris 'faltered at the last hurdle'.
Also this

So it's okay if the chef can't cook as long as he can make cocktails :confused:
 
Just sidetracking noting that Crazy Ray has taken all the stick he did have Sarah Wallingham and OC-David as his 'Partners'

Sarahs 'achievements' according to wikipedia include working for Pizza Express and running Tootsies and the Real Greek.

This says it all.
 
A few people keep saying he made the right business choice but the fallout from his decision is showing how lacking he is in business sense, I get the feeling he failed one of his own challenges.
 
Crazy Ray has added a 'JJ & James Blog' to his website:

http://www.raymondblanc.com/jj-james-blog/jj-blogs-from-fino-restaurant.aspx

There's one solitary entry from May (which curiously did not appear on the website until months later) and then... nothing, not a peep.

Elsewhere on ze leetle chef's luvvie fest (i.e. website) there is absolutely no updated news on the gormless pair since JJ's primary school art that Crazy Ray has now taped to the fridge at home.
 
The barracks is, in fact, the local T.A. place directly opposite JJ and James' restaurant. I suspect this was more a set-up by the producers than Badger's brainwave.

This is part of my feeling that it staged to a much greater degree this year. With or without the T.A. they all managed to fill their restaurants on a Monday night.

The locations for the samples was silly. Frances and Lucy and JJ and James were the only ones working within half a mile of their restaurants. Stephen and Rebecca were bussed a mile up the hill to work close to Rags to Riches and B&Bs, while the Rags to Riches laRAB were bussed a mile down the hill and Badger and Barney sent even further to the Cabot Circus shopping centre.
 
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