The Restaurant 2009

goddess_1 - thanks for joining us and for your comments.

One more question - as you have been reading this thread from the start you will know that some of us did not believe the opening of episode 3. We were told "The restaurants are randomly selected so the locations are a surprise". We saw you get your keys on the deck of the SS Great Britain and surprise, surprise, the couple with the Nigerian concept end up with the only restaurant in an ethnically mixed area and the winkers end up on the Whiteladies 'Strip' - the one location where people go as much as for the trendy drinks as for the food.

So the question is - Did you really pick up those keys at random?
 
I think you have summed it up nicely - what series format should BBC use, and who should have won the '09 series based on the old and new formats. The vast majority of this forum's posters prefer the old format, and feel betrayed by JJ etc winning. What I would like to know is what the contestants were told - I think the one who has posted here feels OK about it, but what of the others?
 
A variation on the old spam sketch:

"Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and goat; egg bacon and goat; egg bacon sausage and goat; goat bacon sausage and goat; goat egg goat goat bacon and goat; goat sausage goat goat bacon goat tomato and goat."
 
Well said.


The following is a letter sent to the little chef:


Dear M. Raymond Blanc

I want my Michelin stars back, you have tarnished my ratings system.

Yours sincerely,

Bibendum (AKA The Michelin Man)
 
As we all start preparing for Christmas and with the Restaurant series 3 having only a few hours left on iPlayer, this thread begins to wind down.

Having started it over 3,500 posts ago and with getting on for 300,000 views, thanks to all who have contributed and, with a few minor exceptions, kept it friendly. Thanks also to the 300 of you who clicked through to my photo album. It is set up so that each individual photo shows up if it was clicked on - unsurprisingly the most clicked photo was the Summer House menu!

I set up this thread in great expectation, having enjoyed last year's so much, only to be bitterly disappointed, like the majority here, by the poor selection of couples (the coconut women may have been entertaining but should never have been allowed on in the first place), the condensed format of one hour per week, and the undeclared (until the 'final hurdle') slew towarRAB 'concept and business' despite there being less of this shown than last year as the production team focussed more on what they considered to be 'entertainment'.

My new year wish is that if there is a fourth series, then it is made in the format of 1 & 2 or not at all.

I look forward to the T&G series in the New Year :D:D:D

Happy Christmas to all.
 
That's a point that has been hotly argued, but for me the important blurb was given out every week during the intro - intoning the "tough on the high street" message. By about week three, the penny dropped with me that the "ordinary" - or more accurately the dreamers the ditherers and the no-hopers (ie everyone except the Winkers and possibly the D-Soiree ladies) were non-starters in a pre-recorded show that the GBP had zero say in whom the judges were going to invest.

It never was X-factor or Big Brother.
 
I’m enjoying this programme.

It starts off with something simple that anyone could do – a chocolate mousse – and builRAB up to something really elaborate – a cup made from chocolate.
 
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