Kitchen Nightmares

Kitchen Nightmares Recaps

• 'Kitchen Nightmares': The chef who quit during service

  Have you ever noticed that every week the announcer tells us that "this week on Kitchen Nightmares, Gordon faces his biggest challenge yet?" Well, the announcer does (or at least something to that effect). I wouldn't really have called this week a "challenge," just a bunch of semi-incompetents working at a restaurant together.

• 'Kitchen Nightmares': The nachos are burning!

  The more I watch Kitchen Nightmares the more convinced I am that I could own a restaurant. Okay, I probably couldn't, but I am convinced that I could do better than the people at the two restaurants we saw this evening. I don't know where the show finds these people, but it thrills me to watch the incompetence on display weekly.

• 'Kitchen Nightmares': So you bought a restaurant, now what?

  Running a restaurant might look like a really easy thing to do -- after all, you just hire a cook, get some local teens to wait tables and you're pretty much good to go, right? Yeah, not so much. However, in the cases of both restaurants tonight on Kitchen Nightmares it kind of looked like that's all the owners figured they had to do.

• 'Kitchen Nightmares' says a prayer

  As much as I like Kitchen Nightmares, it probably wasn't a good idea for me to watch the show with a bad case of heartburn, especially when the restaurant in question was an incredibly greasy greasy spoon. And yet, just for you, I did it.

• 'Kitchen Nightmares': A tale of two restaurants

  When I first realized that there would be two episodes of Kitchen Nightmares tonight, I was a little worried that the similarities between the two would be overwhelming. In actuality, watching back-to-back episodes served to illustrate how different the show can be. Sure, the restaurants were both disasters and the food was horrific at both places, but one restaurant had owners willing to change and the other not so much.

• 'Kitchen Nightmares': Gee, I would love some potato skins with my octopus salad

  The way I see it, there are two reasons to watch Kitchen Nightmares, to see Gordon Ramsay yell at people and to see the filthy kitchens. Tonight really didn't feature either. Oh, it featured some yelling, and Ramsay called people and dishes names and yelled a little, but he really did not go after anyone the way I would have liked. I guess you really can't always get what you want.