Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares is a television programme featuring British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay first broadcast on Channel 4 in 2004. In each episode, Ramsay visits a failing restaurant and acts as a troubleshooter to help improve the establishment in just one week. Ramsay revisits the restaurant a few months later to see how business has fared in his absence. Episodes from series one and two have been re-edited with additional new material as "Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited"; they featured Ramsay checking up on restaurants a year or more after he attended to them. An American adaptation of
Jun Tanaka (chef) Room" as a sous chef under Marco Pierre White, before moving to "The Square" as junior sous chef under Philip Howard and onto "Chavot" under Eric Chavot as sous chef. In 2004, Tanaka became the executive head chef of the Renaissance London Chancery Court Hotel's "Pearl" Restaurant and Bar, a fine dining establishment that specialises in French cuisine. In addition to his job as "Pearl" executive chef, Tanaka partnered with Notting Hill Brassierie's head chef Mark Jankel in 2009 to set up a venture using a street catering van, "Street Kitchen", to produce and sell gourmet lunches, using 100% British