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| - "As filming [Kitchen Nightmares] comes to a close on the latest series of Kitchen Nightmares I've decided to stop making the show," Ramsay wrote on his website. "I've had a phenomenal 10 years making 123 episodes, 12 seasons, shot across 2 continents, watched by tens of millions of people and sold to over 150 countries. It's been a blast but it's time to call it a day."
DON'T STOP TOO SOON... you have one more restaurant to fix up... this one!
Worst Gordon Ramsay experience we've ever had (and the first bad experience so maybe that's why I'm taking it so hard).
1. Our experience started as the hostess walked us through a reasonably open restaurant: past the "patio", past the bar, past the really nice booths, and all the way to the very back of the "family room"... where one might imagine the staff eats. What's up with that; do we not fit your preferred demographic or is there some other reason why you did this to my family? I'm curious; really.
2. Waitress seems to have trained at the local Denny's. If you were here, Chef Ramsay you'd tell that 'fat cow" to EffOff. Ordered drinks and food. Food got delivered (shockingly fast), then the drinks. Not relaxing at all.
3. Fish and chips... let's talk about this please. I'm in no way qualified to tell you how to cook, but these fish and chips were fish and fries. I've had plenty of fish and chips in the UK, both in pubs and from small shops... and once from a place so small they didn't even have electric refrigeration. Really... fries pretending to be chips on a plate of fish and chips??? I've seen you rip people new a-holes for misrepresenting food like this. Oh... and we never tasted the mushy peas. The expeditor forgot them, the runner didn't notice that the expeditor forgot them, and the waitress... well she was out to pasture and didn't notice much of anything.
4. Shepard's Pie... let's chat some more. Served "bare naked" it was a disappointing sight from the moment it landed on the table. Mash was barely browned and no garnish at all. No visual appeal and no olfactory appeal either. As I ate all I could hear was you saying "season, season, season" as you prepare to send a MasterChef contestant home for serving bland food. Whoever the donkey is that cooked my pie... please ask him to return the apron and leave. Please. And those straight-sided dishes sure did make eating the mince and veg a frustrating experience.
5. Manager was finally summoned. I was unhappy. He was polite and kind but had an "excuse" for almost everything. Fries rather than chips: "you can order real chips on the appetizer menu" and when asked again "well, this is a Ramsay-twist; Las Vegas twist on a pub." WTF does that mean... that you can call chips fries because we're not in the UK? I think not. He did the best he could to make things right and comp'd a couple of desserts to make up for the missing mushy peas. But days later all I can remember is that we didn't have the kind of experience we should have had.
6. Oh, and let me not forget to mention... the table next to us was set for guests, but there were chips -- errr... fries, I mean -- on the floor, presumably from the last diner. EVERYONE walked past them, over them, and past them again. I had the pleasure of looking at squished fries on the floor as I ate my meal. I know, I know it is my own fault: I looked (and looked again). Manager verified that they were fries and not chips... then took 15 minutes to get them cleaned up. But cleaned up they were... eventually.
7. Now that I've vented my spleen let me compliment a few things: salmon was very good. The fish on the fish-and-fries was good too. Desserts were excellent.
Please forgive me, Chef, for having such an attitude but it is you who inspire me and you who keeps bleating "standards"... and I totally agree. Standards are everything and should be maintained at all times. I only wish they were maintained for me during our visit to your PUB.
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