ManicMammy’s Blog

Forget “Hell’s Kitchen USA” and the “F word”, this is the only series in which to watch Gordon Ramsay. You can see why he has become such a successful chef and restaurant owner. His passion for food and for people who are willing to give their all in running a restaurant as a business very apparant.

Last week’s episode typified his drive. By god, he did his best to instil some sort of enthusiasm and “get up and go” in Rachel. She was originally from Scotland, but now trying to run a vegetarian restaurant in Paris, which was failing and bleeding money from her father who was keeping it going financially. By the end of the episide, you just wanted to give her a good shake and get her to cop on.

She was running the restaurant for a laugh by the look of things, not taking anything seriously, not willing to put in any work and then wondering why it was all going wrong for her. One of those people who always believes its someone elses fault and that they’re hard done by and misunderstood.

Ramsay began by getting rid of her chef, a Brazilian guy who was for the birds, totally unreliable who served brutal food. Then her friend who was the waitress left. No loss really.

However, then things began to improve. A new young chef, India,  from her native Scotland arrived.  This woman could cook, was eager to learn, and was efficient in running a kitchen.

One of the best scenes of this episode was Gordon Ramsay running a lunch service single handedly. Taking orders, cooking the dishes and serving them to the customers. Ok, it was just a basic soup and sandwich, but it looked great, cost only €6 so was great value for money and the customers enthused about it tasting delicious. After taking in a few hundred euro over one lunch service, he proved that she should quit being so lazy and get in to open up for lunch, despite her earlier protests that it wasn’t worthwhile financially. 

India began to get into her stride, and the restaurant began to serve up decent, tasty vegetarian food. The customers began arriving and leaving very happy. Things were looking good. All happy?

No, it turns out that when India went home for a short while to sort herself out for a permanent move to Paris, Rachel decided it was all too much hassle. India arrived back to Paris to find the restaurant shut.

Arggh, Rachel was shown to be a spoilt, lazy woman. India was employed in one of Ramsay’s London restaurants.

Great tv as it was so obvious what enables a person to achieve success or to face failure. A “couldn’t be bothered” attitude versus a “let’s get on with it” and learn something enthusiasm.

I’ll definitely be watching the rest of the series. 

Rated 4/5 on Nov 12 2007 by ManicMammy
Review Tags: food, gordon ramsay, reality, series, tv, tv series
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