- Last Restaurant Standing, Raymond Blanc, TV Show Reviews
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15 May 2008
When I saw BBC America's Last Restaurant Standing (LRS) (known in the UK as "The Restaurant") for the first time, the first thought was this is really different. In it's final several weeks it was in the identical time slot as the start of (the US version of) Hell's Kitchen (HK). As BBC repeated it's show later that night and Fox didn't repeat HK at all. HK won out the time slot for me, making me wait until midnight for the BBC repeat to catch LRS.
Wow! If I thought LRS was different the first time I ... {More...}
- British Chefs, Delia Smith, Emeril Lagasse, Feature, Gordon Ramsay, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Jamie Oliver, Raymond Blanc
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26 Mar 2008
Ok, so what exactly is going on there in England when it comes to cooking? Basically, as with cooking in other parts of the world, Canada, America, Australia, France ... The whole "organic" movement is taking root. Organic and artisan and free-range poultry and local veggies grown in a local farm or your back garden (we see this exemplified by television shows shown in the US such as Chef's Afield on Public Broadcasting or UK's own Jamie Oliver's Jamie at Home on the Food Network, or the show Manic Organic on one of the Discovery Channels, or this ... {More...}
- British Chefs, Last Restaurant Standing, Raymond Blanc, TV Show Reviews
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03 Mar 2008
©2008 Harry Kenney
Last Restaurant Standing (BBC America)
Not sure why, but having heard the premise I didn't think I would like this new reality competition food show. So much so it delayed my watching it, missing the first episode or two. I can report I was happily mistaken. Sometimes it's in the editing, the pace, the coverage. Whatever, this show has it. For one, the completing folks here (usually married couples, but there are two twin sisters) have a real restaurant. I thought they were going to jam these people in ... {More...}
