The Restaurant 2009

You do realise JJ is going to be trained by Raymond?

By the time anything opens he will be trained to cook by one of the best in the world. It isn't as if Raymond is giving them the keys and leaving them to it.
 
Add a peeled potato to the stock when it is cooking. The potato will absorb a lot of the salt and just discard afterwarRAB. Perhaps he had some other means like using his army training and scaring the salt out of the stock. :D
 
Really it's Raymond Blanc's The Apprentice!! The joke is alas on us viewers for thinking that we were watching a show to find the best chef - no they were looking for a new business opportunity.:mad:
 
Didn't watch all of last years' The Restaurant but, if I remember correctly, most of last years contestants seemed to be much better cooks than this lot. (or am I imagining things?)
 
Thanks for posting something that has the ring of truth about it, in contrast to the conspiracy BS that most posters have given us in the last 48 hours.

This is after all a silly RTV show (ie. not real at all), not 9/11.

I'm in a very small minority in enjoying this series immensely - I found series 1 great but series 2 a bit worthy and dull.

I'm in an even smaller minority in liking JJ and James - for me the stand out couple in terms of entertainment, character - with the best FOH, the best concept and the best approach to the tasks - up for anything, and don't take it personally - it's only a game show.

I still am baffled why anyone thinks this was a cooking contest. No one got kicked off for their cheffing performance - why should JJ have been? As early as week 3 it was blindingly obvious that RB was looking for concept-driven people who would actually turn up - most of the rest just disqualified themselves by flunking the tasks - only D'Soiree - my early faves committed hari-kiri by ditching the concept.

It was sad that Stephen, Chris and Barney, all got let down by their FOH's in one way or another. I found all three of them very able and talented - and at least they came up via the hard school of catering college - not the investment banker with a mid life crisis types that I got bored with in series 1 and 2.

In hinRABight it seems that RB never had any intention of going into business with any of them on the grounRAB of kitchen skills alone, and why should he as it hasn't been a wild success up until now. One failure and the 5th best restaurant in Marlow - why get out of bed for something similar 3rd time around?

Once they ditch the "serve it up in a picnic hamper" nonsense, JJ and James' idea (which they nicked from the States anyway) has commercial possibilities - no idea if they will still be around it though.
 
Episode One
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