The Restaurant 2009

This is really the worst series of them all in more ways than one.

It's the finals and none of them can even prepare a decent meal let alone a restaurant style quality food good enough to charge customers....it should be the other way around & pay them.

Surely the business proposition by RB & partners inc the production co who made this series is non-existent because there's no way in hell these idiots are capable to be handed a restaurant to run!
 
I thought it was great..brilliant comedy, I laughed out loud several times. As I mentioned previously, I'm new to "The Restaurant"..have the contestants always been so hopeless ? I was expecting something closer to Masterchef..but it's still early days and maybe some of them shouldn't be judged on what we have seen so far.
Another little point..they were occasionally offering "free drinks". Surely everything was probably free on the day to the customers of those chains ?..they couldn't expect them to play some kind of Russian roulette, ordering meals from a bunch of (largely) incompetent amateurs ?

PS..Great post there Buck Tarbrush..I'm looking foward to the follow-up. :D
 
This is a local restaurant for local people, there's nothing for you here! *ahem*

Evening all! Actually not so impressed with their local sourcing in general. Also I see the twins can't even recognise a Pear.

Penzance might as well be Africa?? That'll go down well in Cornwall.
 
Or indeed forgetting that whilst Raymond Sarah and David may not be there, the cameras are - for heaven's sake he's been filmed giving the finger to one of his customers behind their back, once that happened and was shown on television there was no chance in hell that he and poor Chris would ever win this.
 
Those are the exact worRAB I came here to post. I feel cheated by the BBC, who dumbed down this series to moron level, and I'm aghast that RB agreed to it - but I wonder if the decision to do so was taken after they saw what a sorry bunch they had to work with this year.

I can see that the runners-up were not likely to create and maintain an inspiring restaurant - but there was no couple amongst the contestants who had any prospect of doing that, no matter how much training they received.

I hope that Chris's efforts result in doors opening for him.

parthena
 
I don't think the cooking is particularly bad this series. There were some terrible meals in previous series and the contestants misjudged their customers just as badly (eg the Oxford college dinner). Yes, the Winkers are a pair of annoying middle-class wide-boys but they see everything as a shollange and clearly enjoy it, whereas the teams who are more serious about cooking seem to hate every minute. It's hard work and some of the contestants clearly find it tough going working long hours under pressure.

It's not as thoughtful or gripping as past series but it's not plane-crash TV either. In fact, I bet that in every household watching last evening, people were discussing the best way to make a plane-shaped cake (I'd go for swiss roll). It still engages the audience better than most TV.
 
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