The Restaurant 2009

I feel so much better about having abandoned this series after reading all the posts in this thread like yours.

I was pretty disappointed initially that it was one ep a week instead of two, maybe I just missed the phrase 'I am putting you in ze shallenge', but I can't even be bothered looking at one now, especially with that couple of wannabe New Romantics on screen all the time. I'd be more impressed if they were able to sing tracks from Lexicon of Love.

I didn't like the Bristol-centric format of the shows I saw either, it seemed very cheap compared to other series which dotted around lots of different places.

To be honest, the mother and daughter sent home for stabbing the milk tin were the highlight of the series and it was downhill from there. At least I now know it's not just me. :p
 
Five minute goat meat? I must remember that the next time I need my brogues re-soled.
Winker boy obviously didn't choke on his first lie. The chutzpah of that boy is beyond belief.

JJ reminded me of the drummer boy from the first series (the one with the lovely American girlfriend). He also couldn't be @rsed to cook. Too busy setting up his drumkit.

Quote of the evening: "British Lager ... It's meant to be good". Really had me in stitches.

Tonight's episode made one thing very clear, the new format doesn't work for me. It all feels far too rushed. No chance to get to know the characters. We have to make do with "soundbites" so to speak.
Ah, well we have to make do with what we get. At least that's more than the poor customers in most restaurants got tonight.
 
Can't believe those two guys are in the final. Nathan & Chris, yes but not the other two. They have been so incredibly lucky to get far. If they win, I will eat my hat. I have always thought that Nathan & Chris were the ones who would get to the final.
 
I haven't heard anything about the result on radio 5Live or seen anything on BBC TV news so far this morning (but I can't be in 2 places at once ;) ) - and Googling brings up no press reports :confused:

parthena
 
put a bread roll in each giant soup cup with some cocktail sticks jabbed in the bottom of the roll to keep it above the soup. They will sell tons just for the novelty.
 
isn't Brazil a long way to go to escape the wrath of viewers and does M Blanc realise that there is now an extradition treaty between the UK and Brazil?
 
I do think the disappointment I felt (and the reason I stopped watched the week Badger and bodger went out) was that I thought the premise was the same as last year when it clearly wasn't. I do think calling it The Restaurent was a bit misleading though. It would be like tuning into Coronation Street and seeing a game show :eek:

As for the bit I highlighted...he should have made it clear to us, and the couples competing, that cooking was secondary to concept right from the start. That way I wouldn't have bothered watching at all.



Maybe it would help you to understand what we mean here if you watch the previous series. He took on couples who had a concept and where one could cook and the other do FoH and put them through a series of shallenges to find the best. Cooking didn't seem to figure much this time round
 
What a brilliant series. I knew as soon as they got away with the lightly bbqd shin of beef this had nothing to do with cooking.

Hilarious, and great that the real stars of the show actually won!!

:D:D:D
 
Something about Sarah Willingham really gets on my tits. I think it is the OTT facial expressions that she keeps pulling like she just had a lemon rammed up her ass.
 
Well, it looks like the scaled-down version we have this year continues to the end.

Series 1 took the contestants and crew over to France and took over a couple of restaurants there so that they could cook for Maman Blanc.

Series 2 hired the Orient Express to stage the final.

But times are hard - this time they've offered free grub to the owners of a stately pile in Devon in exchange for letting the cameras in and thereby giving publicity to the fact that they rent out rooms for private dining at
 
A point Sarah made each week and yet last night was seen praising them to the hilt!

I felt very sorry for Chris as you could see his desire to want it more, but did you see his face when he was told I thought he was going to floor RB.

I'm sure I'm not the first to mention this but I suspect RB is probably more interested in an investment in a London bar those two numpties run than any concept they decided to come up with.

A very disappointing outcome to what had previously been a great series. I doubt I'll be watching next year.
 
IMHO they were far better in last year's opening programme with the exception of the famous mango whiz - but at least they opened the tin safely!

You can judge for yourself - if you go here-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/restaurant/archive.shtml

you can click on each of the 9 contestants. At the bottom of each of their pages you can click on 'signature dish' and see a clip from the opening show.

Annette and Kashelle are the mango people.
Make sure you see James and Alasdair - they are the ones that everyone here refer to as 'Tatman and Gimp'. They came second and had a consolation prize of training at Le Manoir and have their own show starting in the new year.
 
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