Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares

The foul-mouthed chef is back again in the third instalment of Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares. In each episode Gordon Ramsay visits a failing restaurant and attempts to help improve the establishment in just one week. With his passion for food and infamous lack of patience with sloppy standards in the kitchen, he spares no one in his pursuit of restaurant excellence.

What is amazing is the lack of common sense (mostly of hygiene) that the restaurateurs have when it comes to cooking and good service. It is beyond belief that such people are allowed to go near food, let alone serve it to the human population. It’s no surprise that Ramsey lets rip at the bunch of imbeciles.

The first episode featured La Parra, a failing restaurant in the Costa del Sol which had seventy-two dishes on the menu with only one cook, an average waiting time of one hour (if you were lucky), served raw meat which was cooked by torchlight and hanging kebabs which Ramsey remarked looked like “donkey’s dicks”.

The chef’s signature dishes included chicken stuffed with banana and prawns in garlic with a chocolate sauce. The thought is enough to turn your stomach. They even served leftover cooked meat the next day, most likely un-refrigerated. No wonder holiday makers come back with raging tummy aches and hospital inducing diarrhoea. And that is ignoring the sheer amount of grime in the kitchen and the frequent dog poo on the dining area. It was a sight that would have knocked even Kim and Aggie into comas.

There is a bit of verbal abuse on Ramsey’s part, as one may expect, but it is entertaining to see the restaurateurs finally getting their comeuppance, and his blunt and scathing attacks nearly reduced the male owner to tears. These people need some sense battered into them and he is definitely the man to do it. After all, he knows what he’s talking about - he is a multi-award winning chef and all of his restaurants hold Michelin stars, Europe’s highest and most coveted restaurant accolade.

Ramsey is like Marmite, you either love him or you hate him. But he makes for some entertaining television, especially with some of the tripe that is on nowadays. One can only dread what is yet to come as the series goes on.

Natasha Kundaiker