The Restaurant 2009

Oh Buck... after a skiddy journey to the office for what what will be an even more skiddy journey to the snowy wastelanRAB where my mother is for Chrimble, I am sat in the office helplessly giggling (much to the bemusement of the cleaners) at the thought of you missing a little bit of Crazy Ray's ramblings, having thrown the cat at the TV. That has cheered me up no end and I will continue to just chuckle to myself all day. Your round ups are just. Hil.Ar.!
 
I agree that the programme felt as though it was over before it had even begun. Definitely should have kept it over two nights I think.

Almost wishing now that Janet and Sean had been kept in just because it would have been car crash tv at its best watching them not cope!!!
 
If I had my money on the line and had to open a restaurant with one of those couples I would have picked JJ and James as well. They are serious and businessnesslike and know what the public want.

Chris seemed like a really lovely bloke and was pretty whizzy in the kitchen but he didn't have a very distinctive concept and he was a partnered with an absolute stinker of a front of house man. Even though he made a lot of improvements during the series, I would be quite wary of working with Nathan.

JJ and James formed a great partnership and worked very well together. They supported each other well and both seemed to believe in their concept. I thought they were the obvious choice of the two couples left in the final.
 
Look, the title of this show is "The Resturant", not "Master Chef" or "Perfect Chef" or whatever.

The entire principle behind this series was that the three of them wanted to open a restaurant that had a unique theme, run by two people who had the most potential to turn a profit. Cooking is just one part of that process. There are other parts:

- Concept
- Front of House service
- Determination
- Team Work

Yes JJ can't cook, but he will be trained by Raymond personally. And Raymond wouldn't agree to train someone whom he didn't feel could be trained. The winkers excelled on all other four items.

R&R however were only good at the cooking. Yes they had a concept, but it wasn't the strongest one. And as for front of house, determination and team work.. well that all came down to what mood Nathan was in and if he could be arsed or not.

If you take cooking out of the equation and remember Raymond will take care of that side of things with training, the winkers were clearly the best team on the other catagories.

If you're watching this show to see the best cook get a restaurant then you perhaps are watching the wrong show. They went for potential over perfection.
 
It was all the son's fault, there's no way he'd be able to deal with front of house, he had no idea what he wanted to do and what he was doing there.

So, are they not getting their own restaurants this year?

Also did I blink and miss it or did the two blond girls not get an intro VT ... I swear I didn't see one ...
 
Does anyone know if Series 1 & 2 are repeated anywhere? This is the first series I have watched and I have really enjoyed it. The highlight has to be the stupid woman trying to open a tin with a knife in the first show.
 
When it showed the clib of Mr and Mrs Gravalax cooking in their home, the food looked fabulous, maybe they know that she can actually cook and kept her in because of that, just guessing though.
 
Finding this very entertaining viewing, if only to dream of more elaborately insulting ways of describing my feelings of revulsion for the winkers. Mind you, the plane cake was a classic.

Think Raymond's contract includes a get-out? Clearly none of the contestants have a hope in hell of making their 'business' ideas work.
 
Set up as a business deal. right from the start.

The penny started dropping, but tonight it finally fell and I was one sucker who loved this series from the beginning.

Maybe I was taken for a fool right from the start.

The deal between three on one side and two on the other, no doubt is an exchange.

We will expand your food and know how. You will get us three old fogies in to the groove regarding cocktails. the way to go.

We, in a Sarah Gillingham voice, breathlessly. "I had no idea how big cocktails, could be. This could be a serious enterprise.

All I can say to this prog is fo and stfu.
 
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