The Restaurant 2009

Would have loved to have done the demo at the food fair but it enRAB there for me! Polite to customers Yes! I just wouldn't do deference to toRAB! :mad: my menu... would be a wall and a firing squad! :rolleyes::p

JJ&J ... just the right type of winkers for a snobs banquet!:D
 
Quite!

But on the strength of what he has written, I have devised a recipe for a brand new cocktail.

Take a measure each of inexperience, cockiness and total lack of cooking skill (easily obtained from JJ & James)

Add a large wink (again JJ & James)

Add a double measure of disbelief and mistrust (obtained from the other contestants who from RB's blog will now know with certainty that being able to cook and run a business was never going to count at all)

Stir in a large amount of bitters (obtained from the viewers who had a nasty taste left in their mouths)

Garnish with a raspberry (preferably the one RB has blown at his public)

Add an umbrella of arrogance (taken from the tone of RB's blog)

And there you have it. A brand new cocktail

The Crazy Ray!
 
Just had to come here for this programme - those blonde guys - unbearable slice of the 80s.

Goodness, and the wink.

I can't get over the fact that I can cook better than most of these peeps. Amazing how much faith some seem to have and they can't even open a tin!
 
I'm off for the Xmas festivities, hard to drag myself away from my computer (how sad is that?) and I won't be able to find out for 10 days if Monsieur Bonk updates his blog or Twitter - I think he might let both die.

A very Happy Xmas to one and all and thanks for the great posts on this thread - MC to look forward to next I believe!
 
What the intro to each episode actually says is

They must survive in the most competitive market of all: the high street. But it's a tough trade in tough times.

It's followed by a clip of Sarah how important it is to make money.

The series has been frustrating because of the number of apparently uncommitted contestants and the low standard of some of the food. But no one can accuse the winkers of being uncommitted; they desperately want to win, they don't see losing as an option. I don't want to know the outcome before I watch it but it is fair to assume that the three investors won't invest in a project that's doomed to failure. If the winners are all style and no substance it's because they know that it's a formula that will succeed in the high street.

And by the way, look at some of the big high street chains nowadays. I'm not going to name names but there are some dreadful restaurants around, some of them quite upmarket, and they always have queues out of the door.
 
That is why quite a number of us on this board are so disappointed by the new format. In the last series towarRAB the end of the programme the couples were arranged around a large semi-circular table where RB would hold an inquest.

So with last year's format it might have been:

Nathan why are you so rude to your customers? (Nathan mutters about them being oiks). You must understand that zey are your guests. For zat reason I am putting you in ze shallange.

Daisy, Nadine - you say zat you have a Nigerian concept but I no longer see zat in your cooking. (The girls say they don't cook rabbits in Nigeria). For zat reason I am putting you in ze shallange.

JJ all I have seen you do is pass plates from your cooks to the front of house staff. (JJ grins and winks). I have yet to be convinced that you are actually running zat kitchen. For zis reason I am putting you in ze shallange.

The second one hour programme each week was the run-off between the bottom three (helped by those who were safe). There were 6 'shallanges' last year and I listed them and how to see clips of them here:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=36394283&highlight=#post36394283

This programme is now so cut back that one of last year's shallanges is being used as the final this year.
 
Is the lecture over?

The only one defending this asinine decision harder than you and Iris is Le Blanc. Perhaps you could get together and apply next year - No cooking or front of house skills required. Clearly.

.......

Never has the phrase "A nod and a wink" seemed so appropriate. Winners so shit that even a Mango Whiz would be beyond them.
 
The Winkers: "So arrogant....you might think it was a disease"

Despite that it sounded to me very much like this pair of tossers are going to win it! Raybo seems to love their concept. Good on Sian for pointing out how useless they are.
 
I think it was the right decision last night, bearing in mind they scraped through last week's programme with RB saying something like "you have yet to show me whether you can cook or not" when presented with the packet-to-plate dish. I think the crunch moment this week was when you compare two answers to the same question:

www.bbc.co.uk/i/b00ntd9s/?t=47m30s
 
I will just add a voice to say I am quite comforted so many share my disdain for the shambolic con that has passed as The Restaurant 2009.

However, right at the end yesterday I actually had complete faith that Monsieur RB would say "I have chosen to open a restaurant with...[dramatic pause]...........neither of you"

That he didn't have the guts to do so makes him go right down in my estimation. :mad:

I won't be watching again.
 
And I have now seen the Radio Times, without meaning to, so that's spoiled Thursday's show. Or maybe I'll do something more useful with my time - perhaps clean the leaves out of the pond by torchlight. I don't care who wins it anyway.
 
For me, the right couple went - not because of the c**k up, but because of the self-delusion. When Raymond said some had been out of their depth the others were pictured nodding, while self-satisfied Sean just looked smug/ They then denied that they had been out of their depth because of the compliments and the standing ovation!!

How can they begin to think that performance was all right??
 
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