Kitchen Nightmares

Secret Garden

Secret Garden - In the final episode of this first season, Ramsay tussles with a French chef with a man-sized frog in the dining room. Forget the "kitchen," welcome to my nightmares.

Campania

Campania - Ramsay and Campania's chef work through meatballs, huge portions, and several irate customers to make a success of a New Jersey strip-mall restaurant.

Lela's

Lela's - Maybe if her champagne tasted like cherry cola, she wouldn't have closed down.

Finn McCool's

Finn McCool's - A family by the name of Mazio owns an Irish restaurant in Westhampton and, oddly, they don't seem to have a very good grasp on shepherd's pie.

Sebastian's

Sebastian's - Ramsay does his level best to wean a Burbank chef off frozen foods and a menu that requires more decisions than a San Francisco ballot, but fails.

Olde Stone Mill

Olde Stone Mill - Ramsay morphs into a Gatorade commercial by badgering a self-conscious hot-head restaurateur about the lessons to be learned from failure. Thankfully, the episode's unspoken subtext -- dissolution of a marriage because of financial strife -- is overlooked by the producers.

Seascape

Seascape - Ramsay helps a son with dead daddy issues clean and revamp his dead daddy's restaurant. And then the guy goes and sells the place. No more daddy issues!

The Mixing Bowl

The Mixing Bowl - Slightly tamer than in the past few episodes, Ramsay goes back to Lon Guyland to rescue a dire place called The Mixing Bowl Eatery. And he wears minuscule shorts at some point.

Lord Of The Flies

Dillons - Wanted: One Indian restaurant where the flies don't outnumber the guests.

Babylon Dive

Peter's - Ramsay gets introduced to the Babylonian Mafia and goes down an inflatable slide.

1-2: "Dillons" 2007.09.26

1-1: "Peter's" 2007.09.19

1-6: "Sebastian's" 2007.11.07

1-4: "Seascape" 2007.10.10

1-5: "Olde Stone Mill" 2007.10.17

1-7: "Finn McCool's" 2007.11.14

Kitchen Nightmares in the Media

1-8: "Lela's" 2007.11.21

1-3: "Mixing Bowl" 2007.10.03

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