Has anyone been to a restaurant bad enough to appear on Ramsays Kitchen Nightmares?

Question

I was just wondering because I don't think I've ever been to a restaurant that bad and I want to know where he finds them.

Answer 1

thankfully no

Answer 2

Mc D's?????

Answer 3

We went to Rubys in Brighton which has been featured in the show. We thought the food was very good, but we did not choose the sea food platter or the mussels.

We went again after and had another great meal.

The waiting staff have alot to do with its success, the atmosphere is excellent.

Answer 4

Yes, Wetherspoons in Dorchester is dreadful and the staff are rude if you complain.  They have tarted it up so it is not very full and the standards have gone down hill all the way.

Answer 5

I went to a place recently that has had a major refurbishment so it looks really smart but when my friend asked if the mashed potato was real she was told it was packet Smash.

Answer 6

yeah i did. when i travelled in india, i have been to a restaurant, suggested by one of my friend, as the most delicious and "exclusive"  restaurant around the town,Rishikesh. Atmosphere was authentic, service was great, food was also not so bad. Just before i leave the place, i saw the kitchen. Even rats would run away from there, that filthy it was. I got food poisoning and couldn't get well for 3 days. A year on, I still don't get close to indian cuisine.

Answer 7

as far as I know, they call him up themselves.

I went to some fancy place once but the manager decided to give one of his staff a good talking to in the dining area, I was so put off I left. That kind of behaviour is very primitive and humiliating no matter what the waiter did wrong, you don't talk to staff like that in front of guests.

Answer 8

The Family House Buffet in Breezewood, PA.

Answer 9

yes

Applebees has bad service and bad food

sometimes

Answer 10

PROBABLY,

but then we don't see what goes on in the kitchen?

Answer 11

I would nominate "John's Hot Stew" in Indianapolis, IN.  The food is delicious but the atmosphere could use a lot of help.

Answer 12

Yes, I have.

He doesn't find them. They nominate themselves. If you look at the Channel 4 web site you'll find instructions on how to do it.

I was in the Granary (Hampshire) restaurant on the evening that they recorded the scene with the large party in the biggest of the dining rooms.

At the time the booking was made nobody knew that Gordon Ramsay was going to be there.

The service really was absoluteley appalling. We were waiting for up to an hour between courses and the food was often cold when it arrived. Some people had to send it back. Our meal took between 7pm and 11:30pm to be fully served, and there was no coffee/tea offered either.

The waitress said that she thought Ramsay was the reason why it was so bad but, now I've seen the broadcast and the behind-the-scenes shots, I reckon that it would have been poor even without his presence.

What amazes me is that the owner still refuses to accept that he had been given the advice of one of the worlds best chefs and successful restraunteers. The owner of the Granary has done nothing but winge in the local press and on C4 web site ever since the Ramsay visit. He's been wingeing even though his restaurant has been doing a roaring trade ever since the broadcast.

Because Ramsay overdoes the swearing it tends to dimish the fact that his advice is very good. He offers it almost free of charge too (the only price to pay is that the restaurant managers must look like dickheads on television) and they get a fortune's worth of free publicity.

Answer 13

yes

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