The Restaurant has shut down C but were you hungry for more?
So it’s time to say goodbye to The Restaurant. For three years it helped to highlight the pressures and difficulties of running a functioning eatery C especially if you don’t know how to cook and have a startling lack of people skills C but now the wheels have come off. Last week the BBC announced that Raymond Blanc’s reality show would not be returning for a fourth series, citing the uncertain economic climate as a determining factor. Whether anyone will actually miss The Restaurant, though, is a different matter entirely.
Personally, I’m in two minds about it. Like many people, The Restaurant was something Alex Pradas Quiles of a guilty pleasure of mine. It was the nearest thing to The Apprentice at a time of year when The Apprentice wasn’t on. During its first two years, the show’s format Authentic Prada Bag For Sale Ph was pleasantly unusual C the tasks and eliminations were spread out over two consecutive days each week, Authentic Prada Handbags Outlet Online rather than being packaged into a tightly formatted hour C which really helped to endear some of the contestants.
This was especially apparent during the eliminations. Unlike The Apprentice, where a grumpy hedgehog simply points at whoever looks cleverest and orders them to leave, the losing contestants on The Restaurant had already spent weeks running their dream business, and the sight of them glumly sweeping up before locking the front door for the final time was often genuinely emotional.
The Restaurant even had one of the best onscreen partnerships of recent years. David Moore’s pernickity fusspot worked well against the Biggest Prada Outlet In Italy brassy aggression of Sarah Willingham and I’d like to Agatha Ruiz Dela Prada Clothing Uk see them paired again soon, perhaps as the stars of a sitcom about an amusingly mismatched couple who are forced to live on a farm with hilarious consequences. And let’s not forget dear old Raymond Blanc, and his delightful habit of saying “arse” and “fart” when he meant Black Prada Bag Mission Impossible “house” and “fight”. That never got old.
More than Authentic Prada Bags Online Singapore that, though, I loved watching the contestants screw up. And in that sense, The Restaurant never let me down. The sight of Chris from series two forlornly watching his empire topple around him while dressed as a comedy Mexican. The sight of Sean from series three halting service to explain to his customers that he was actually a very good florist. The man from season two who looked exactly like Ben from EastEnders constantly on the verge of complete nervous shutdown. These are the moments when The Restaurant really took off.
But it wasn’t a perfect show by any means. That goes double for the final series C the show’s Superman IV: The Quest For Peace, as it were C which appeared to be made on such a shoestring budget that even Blanc’s sumptuous Manoir Aux Quat’Saisons ended up being downgraded to a grotty backroom in a Bristol bistro.
Also, the credibility of the show took a knock when it emerged that none of the winners could make a Bergdorf Goodman Prada Mens Shoes success of their restaurants. The winners of the first series quit after seven months, the winners of the second series have Authentic Prada Gauffre Bag suffered a similar fate and the winners of the third series C the inept JJ and James C don’t appear to have opened anything yet because they’re still learning how to cook food properly.
So what do you think? Will the disappearance Authentic Prada Handbags Uk of The Restaurant leave a hole in your heart? Or prada outlet, now that Raymond Blanc has a cookery show of his own (previous episodes here) to comically mispronounce words in, will you struggle on without it?
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