The Restaurant 2009

Sorry if it has been asked already, but what was the Asian restaurant where the Winkers were? I didn't catch it, and kept assuming it was Wagamama (never ate there myself).
 
tbh I think that's exactly what RB wants. If you look at the reviews for the Winkers' bar, JJ is the star of his own little world. JJ will be out of that kitchen within 5 minutes of it opening and shaking his mixer.

I'd have thought after the failure with the first winners, the last thing RB wants is another so-so chef livin' the dream. He'll put his own chef in there.
 
Ooh, I do love a good conspiracy theory. :D

But wouldn't it have been easier to fabricate an intro which ended "... and if all else goes wrong, serve a cocktail"?
 
I know what I expect from a good TV show and that wasn't it.

I also don't think you need to be an expert in any of those areas in order to have an opinion about this travesty.

I, along with many others have been keen fans of the series for the past few years, and as such, I think that our opinions are very valid. The premise of the show has always been to have a couple, one of whom can cook, and one of whom is front of house, and let them run a restaurant - along with various shallenges, to choose the one who would be best at running a restaurant.

The "concept" has always been there - the "art gallery" with Tatty and Gimp last year, for example, but, other things were also important. The winkers constantly failed on challenges, showed little business accumen (in the series), and (of course) couldn't cook.

If you want to give anyone some business advice, give it to Crazy Ray - his reputation has taken a severe nosedive in the last week.......
 
Thanks for that. I presume LRS also contained the preamble every week .... survive on the high street ... tough out there ... etc. Although it took me until week 3 to figure it out, Restaurant 3 was never about being a cooking competition (remember Chris's signature dish - a pork wellington naked to the world:D, Steven's cake from hell :D) - all the challenges were designed precisely for the epic fail - from what I saw it was the way the contestants survived that got them through, not what was on the plate.

We don't actually know what the Winkers' concept is, though if it turns out to be matching high profit margin cocktails (mixed by JJ), served by James - with fine food, cooked by an RB employee, then it may fly (unlike Steven's airplane cake).

Follow various ramblings of the winners and RB at:

http://twitter.com/Megalofobia/the-restaurant

where James is asking for ideas. :cool:
 
The answer to "Why Bristol" was apparently because Raymond Blanc was in the process of opening a new "Blanc Brasserie" in Bristol while the series was being filmed. The other possible factor is that they have probably exhausted the supply of restaurants willing to let the BBC use them for filming within an hour of Oxford (or whatever their requirements were for the first two series).

As for the two "spin-oRAB" - only the second is truly a spin-off.

Kitchen Secrets is simply another BBC cookery programme - which is where I think that RB shines far more than in The Restaurant - we're less than half way through at the moment, but from what I have seen so far I would definitely recommend watching it if you have the chance.

Overall I agree with your assessment of this series and I really do hope that they don't do a fourth series.
 
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