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I was really surprised to see LaGalleria on Kitchen Nightmares. Whule I haven't been in awhile, I went often when they first opened. Rita's husband (ex) was not the head chef then. I found Rita to be quite personable and excited about her restaurant. It also wasn't unusual to see her mother come over to help so it seemed strange to me that given the support they had, the restaurant wasn't successful. It also was a huge risk for them to go on a show like this. I hope it works for them, and I would go back. She just needs to get a new chef. IMO, the dropped chicken was just for the camera or he was simply being arrogant.
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re: MC Slim JB
Good point. My thought was, with all the support they had, Rita and her sister would have been able to identify the issues and correct them.
Gordan Ramsey seemed a little tamer on this show. In May, DH and I went to the opening night of his steak house at the Paris Hotel in Vegas, and while it was amazing, you could feel the electricity (read tensions) in the room.
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The real shame of this show is that I found out their parents own L'Osteria, which is one of my favorite spots. I realize that's not fair to tie the two of them together, but that's what happens when you voluntarily go on national television and associate yourself with a restaurant that serves chicken from the floor and dead mussels... Maybe they're dumb enough to play it up to the cameras, but I don't know why anyone would ever eat there after watching that show.
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They aren't the only ones - Ramsey is filming at Barefoot Bob's in Hull until tomorrow:
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Science Chick
May 15, 2012 11:52 AM
I love the Wicked Local blurb that ends with "Barefoot Bob's award-winning chowder and lobster rolls", in an article about KN coming to rescue them!
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re: Scotpaulabear
Trumpetguy
May 16, 2012 10:02 AM
Cool! Drove past it yesterday and wondered what was up! I thought it was "Bar Rescue"... now I know :)
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MC Slim JB
May 12, 2012 10:20 AM
Has anyone been to Davide since the last time Ramsay was in town to "fix" a restaurant? Heard anything about it? I noticed they had offered a Groupon a few months back.
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MC Slim JB
May 14, 2012 05:30 AM
This is my point. From my December 2010 Devil's Dining Awards:
"Most Futile Hail-Mary Pass Award: to North End restaurant Davide for its pending appearance on Kitchen Nightmares. Fox’s restaurant-makeover show follows Gordon Ramsay, the talented but money-grubbing British chef, as he expresses disgust at a struggling restaurant's food, then profanely tongue-lashes the incompetent owners, cooks and waitstaff into submission. He then oversees a perfunctory menu and dining room face-lift before exiting triumphantly.
The show's dirty secret is that Chef Shouty McSpittlefleck never addresses the business management issues at the root of most restaurant failures. So Davide will likely suffer the same fate as most of Ramsay's Cinderellas: a brief bump in popularity after the episode airs, failure within a year or two anyway, and the eternal afterlife of its public humiliation on YouTube."
Based on a viewing of the Davide KN episode, it looks like it was further hobbled by profound family dysfunction among its owners. (I actually enjoyed that episode, as it told a moving if semi-tragic family story: normally I loathe that show, cannot abide watching it.)
Isn't La Galleria 33 also a family operation, owned by the L'Osteria folks across the street and run by one of their children?
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I've always had pretty decent meals at Galleria 33, I'm a little surprised. The service was a little tense, but I did not get the impression the restaurant was KN material. It makes me wonder what was going on behind the scenes? Restaurant was always packed too - never empty!
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