Kitchen Nightmares

Chef Gordon Ramsay is hitting the big city in an attempt to revamp Indian restaurant Dillons and make it one of the hottest venues in town. Only steps away from Ramsay's own New York restaurant, he quickly changes things inside and out, in preparation for a grand reopening celebration.

Le chef Gordon Ramsay a sillonné les États-Unis pour porter secours à des restaurants en péril. Un an après, il revient pour faire le bilan. Que sont devenus les établissements auxquels il était venu prêter main forte ? Le « Dillon's », à Manhattan, était une véritable catastrophe : carte déroutante, cuisine épouvantable et hygiène désastreuse. Joe, le propriétaire du « Campania », croulait sous les dettes et n'appréciait pas les remarques de Gordon. Et au « Peter's », un restaurant italien géré par un tyran, l'ambiance était explosive !

Chef Gordon Ramsay visits Trobiano's, an Italian restaurant that is a half-million dollars in debt; during a confrontation with the owner about the cleanliness of the kitchen and the quality of the food, chef Ramsay walks out.

Black Pearl, a struggling seafood restaurant with three different owners running the kitchen, has come to chef Gordon Ramsay for help; one of the owners is resistant to change and questions every move Gordon makes.

Chef Ramsay heads to Cranbury, N.J., to help two friends who bought a French Bistro they used to work in; a disgusting discovery in a kitchen cooler forces Ramsay to shut the restaurant down on the busiest night of the year.

Chef Ramsay visits a restaurant that is going under due to imitation seafood and a lack of management; problems arise when the general manager seems more interested in socializing with clientele than keeping the restaurant in business.