The Restaurant 2009

I understand what you are getting at, but by picking so many weak couples all they've succeeded in doing is alienating a significant percentage of The Restaurant's core, established audience, without offering anything in the change of format that would result in them picking up new viewers to compensate.
 
All they said in the first programme was "Picnic", and JJ waffled on about the potential of pork pies.

..... and then served their "signature dish" lumpy crumble thingy with an organic cider

.... IN A FREAKIN' COCKTAIL GLASS. :D

As I said earlier, plenty to critcise JJ and James about, but the idea that the concept changed is a total non starter IMO.
 
So would I - for now there's always James' twitterings.

At the moment, he's undergoing Sommelier training at David's Pied a Terre restaurant - last week serving Tony Blair! Enough oily charm there for a small Gulf state, I should think. Now that's something for a fly-on-the-wall documentary. :D
 
Actually, I thought the best couple were the 2 guys from the Army.

But they just quit after it seemed that one of them couldn't cope with the fact that he'd screwed up slightly by ordering the wrong size cups which, to me, seemed to be an extreme over-reaction.
 
I agree - I'm still watching and finding it pretty entertaining, but it lacks the finesse of the first two series. What's more, the budget cuts have only served to magnify how contrived and staged the whole thing is.

Supposedly, the restaurant lpcations were chosen at random by the couples picking labels. As if by magic, the two Sloaney blonde guys ended up with the restaurant in Sloaney Clifton, while Daisy and Nadine, who had the idea for an ethnic Nigerian menu, picked the restaurant in the ethnically diverse area of Stokes Croft. All very convenient :rolleyes:
 
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