The Restaurant 2009

No way I'd wait that long, I'd be gone. 40 minutes and I'd want it free or at least very heavily discounted. No way I'd wait an hour.
 
I think you're giving JJ too much credit.
Did he actually make the scotch egg from scratch?
Did he actually make the shashliks? Something we always leave to the kiRAB, as they love to assemble them.
We only saw him working butter into flour, or something like that. And that was a superb demonstration of total lack of skills.
JJ told Raymond he did do the cooking (of course), but we all know he didn't choke on his first lie.
In earlier epsiodes we saw the sous doing all the cooking. Last night there was a suspicious absence of sous footage.
I think it was done deliberately to make JJ look a bit better.
After all the winkers are the favourites to win.

Next week he will no doubt weasle his way out of cooking lessings by doing cocktail recipes. Olives, cherries and cocktail onions are after all food. :):).
 
That was my initial reaction, but this is not just about cooking, it is about running a restaurant. I think RB learned his lesson from the father and daughter last year. However good her cooking, he let her down front-of-house. Likewise this year, however good the mother's cooking, RB decided that son would be a disaster running the restaurant. Having watched it again, he actually says that it is not about the cooking:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b00npjr3/?t=56m19s
 
Surely this show has got to be the world's longest most elaborate practical joke? If it wasn't for him being dead, it wouldn't surprise me to see Jeremy Beadle popping up at the end of next week's episode.
 
It has got to the point where it's not even funny or entertaining to watch. I roll my eyes and cringe whenever they appear on screen. My brother who sat down to watch his first ever episode yesterday was shocked at how rubbish they are. Total chancers and blaggers! Raymond has gone bonkers putting them 2 in the final!!
 
If he hadn't cocked up the rostto I suspect he would have put it in too early and it would have been as tough as old boots. He definately got lucky on the beef .. but then again all he had to do was throw it in the oven with a bit of seasoning. Unlike the souffl
 
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