Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Season 5 (UK).

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Gordon's back on the road

Gordon Ramsay is back, bringing his trademark tough talking to more failing restaurants in a new series of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. From a vegetarian eatery in Paris to a meat carvery in Sussex, Gordon’s approach is more radical than ever. Emotions run high as Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares takes viewers to the heart of the harsh reality of running a restaurant.

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Ramsay targets culinary makeover for entire town
22/10/2007 - 18:34:32

He has sorted out kitchen nightmares one by one - now Gordon Ramsay wants to tackle an entire town. The fiery TV chef is on the lookout for the town or city with the worst restaurants, and he already has an inkling of where it will be. He has just finished filming the new series of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares for Channel 4, and told the Radio Times: "I now want to expand the whole idea and try and sort out not just individual restaurants, but a whole town."

Asked if he was serious about such a huge undertaking, he replied: "Totally. I want people to nominate the worst eating-out town in Britain, and I'll go and sort it out. It shouldn't be hard to find - there are plenty of them! "Personally, I wouldn't be surprised if it's a seaside town, somewhere like Bognor or Skegness. We'll see."

Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares begins next week and features an Indian restaurant. Having once worked as a dishwasher in a curry house in Stratford-upon-Avon, Ramsay said he knew how to spot a bad one. "If I see a bowl of mints by the front door, I walk straight out again," he said. "I mean, what does it say about the food? That the minute you've finished eating, you should want to wash the taste away with a ball of hardened Listerine?"

Lengthy menus in Indian restaurants also make him cringe, especially when "encased in laminated plastic so that it can be wiped clean of dribble from the p****d f**ts who stagger in from the pub at closing time on a Friday night". He explained: "What it means is that they've got a massive vat of all-purpose curry bubbling away, into which they drop a bit of powder at the last moment to create the sauce flavour ordered. The maximum number of sauces a kitchen could create in one night is six, not 60."

The Indian restaurant getting the Ramsay treatment in the new series is the Curry Lounge in Nottingham. Ramsay said: "The place was terrible."

Ramsay's comment about Skegness provoked a strong defence of the town's culinary delights by its first citizen. Mayor Ken Milner said: "He's a cheeky sod. I don't think that's right at all. We have got a good mixture of different restaurants. "I had a beautiful Sunday lunch on Sunday. And you can go and get the best fish and chips on the east coast here. If he wants to come up and have a look for himself, it would be a pleasure to have him."