Raymond Blanc THE RESTAURANT new series

[RTKangaMummy]

We went to one of them and it was really deffo brill

I am not allowed to say which one though or say what happened

BBC2

Wednesday

MAGGS - Same here with everything!

Missed it last night...

Cheese melts & StAgur, bottle of red, DS in bed, DH on work trip......sorted!

could be goodbye to the lads - Alistair not doing too well

Mike really winds me up....

pmsl at Sir Walter Riley that famous Irish explorer!

My dd is in bed and dh out too. Oh and the wine is open. Nice to know I have some company!

Mike annoys me too - he has totally the wrong personality for this job

And Mike breaks his record for being the most offensive *anker ever..

Finally, she got Raleigh correct!

Poor Mike's daughter.

oh dear, Harriet has over cooked the lot!

Alistair is a nervous wreck

Has he ever not been?

.... drum roll .......

.... drum roll .......

am glad they've gone.

I like Alistair. But I think James is an arogant t.

watched it with a friend (who has never seen it - but did train as a chef) and he said Alistair is all 'me, me, me' and that he doesn't understand front of house. Interesting comment from Raymond that he left the 150 meals to the woman and only did the top table......they will go.....And then the smug 'I got offered a job'....

It was almost Car Crash TV! Was so embarassed - Arriet's dad - SO RUDE to the people trying to tell him what the traditions are - i was cringing whenever he opened his mouth!

Then James ringing up Ali on mobile - WHY DID ALI ANSWER? that was plain rude. Think couple from Nel's dead embarassed. They obv felt sorry for Ali (who doesn't have a clue - but it's not helped when James totally leaves him out of all decision making - the overspend on food was stunning).

And as for the snuff! But to be fair to them, they did really enter into the spirit of things - they're just a bit young and niaive in my opinion.
Don't think either of the "saved" couples will last long.

One comment tho - Arriet & Dad's exit was blamed on Dad's doing it for Arriet not for himself. Think it should have been blamed on Dad's rudeness/arrogance/complete crapness at front of house.

Am so so glad that Arriet's Awful Dad has gone! I s'pose he'll just buy her one now, will he?

I'd love to know exactly what business 'Arriet's dad is in...it's hard to imagine him succeeding in anything, he is so defensive, arrogant, ignorant and rude!
Poor wee lass, do you think she will ever forgive him?
Ad do we imagine that childhod friends ali and james will remain friends?

Arriet's dad - charmless and rude - so no, can't think what business he could be in ?!

blackduck you mean james? Alistair is the one doing front of house and James is the chef.

I do think that Alistair doesn't have a clue, but I like him - don't know why.

he'll snap one day and deck the control freak that is James

on the website it says that Arriet's dad (57) runs 2 recruitment businesses ( so he works with people !?!) and that Arriet is his only child and they are very close.

whoops - sorry meant the other way round....(hangs head)
You do think with ALi and James it probably is the end of a beautiful friendship....

On snuff thing I didn't really get why they had a go? These are adults (over 18) - they drink for gods sake, they didn't HAVE to try the snuff....

you've gotta wonder, if James has worked as a chef in the past and it is his passion, why is he now working as a bouncer?

And if James and Ali ran a pub together and brought it up from failing to success, why are they no longer working together running said successful pub?

James as a bouncer