- 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...}
- Hell's Kitchen, Last Restaurant Standing, TV Show Reviews, Top Chef
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24 Apr 2008
Over the past two days, our favorite three food reality shows were on ... Hell's Kitchen, Last Restaurant Standing and Top Chef ... so let's check each one out and see what happened.
Hell's Kitchen
Took long enough to kill Craig! Whew, finally! Yeah, I noticed the over-tanning myself on last night's episode. That's what happens when you have a Brit in California. hehe
I do think Ben might be correct though. Seems Ramsay is out for him, and Ben is no better and no worse than most of the others. Matt on the other hand is definitely destined to go in the ... {More...}
- Hell's Kitchen, Iron Chef America, Last Restaurant Standing, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, Rocco Dispirito, TV Food Shows, Throwdown with Bobby Flay
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21 Mar 2008
Why do so many other people come up with much better food reality programs that the Food Network? Is it they're so close to the subject matter they can't see the forest from the trees? Or in this case the parsley leaves from the bushel? Aside from Bobby Flay's Throwdown and Dinner: Impossible, yeah FN does fine with it's dump-and-stir programming, but reality? Eh.
Let's face it FN to this day whines -- and I mean whines a non-stop pathetic blue streak -- that Bravo stole Top Chef from their Next Food Network Star. But ... {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...}
