Kitchen Nightmares Kitchen Nightmares Kitchen Nightmares is an American reality television series formerly broadcast on the Fox network, in which chef Gordon Ramsay is invited by the owners to spend a week with a failing restaurant in an attempt to revive the business. It is based on the British show "Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares". The show premiered Wednesday September 19, 2007. On June 23, 2014, Ramsay announced he was ending the series. In June 2018, "Gordon Ramsay's 24 Hours to Hell and Back", a new series with a premise much like "Kitchen Nightmares" but a shorter timeline, premiered on Fox. The show was
Michael Hutchings (chef) Michael Hutchings (chef) Michael Hutchings (born 1949) is a professional chef who is best known as the chef/owner of Michael's Waterside in Santa Barbara, California. He appears with Julia Child on the PBS cooking program "Dinner at Julia's" and on Cox Television with Jeanne Berg's "Cooking Local" program. Since 2015, he has appeared as the Chef Host of the Santa Barbara ABC-Affiliate cooking program "The Inn Crowd". Michael Hutchings first worked at a restaurant in college. His first major job was in the kitchen of the private Club 33 at Disneyland. Michael Hutchings eventually became executive chef of Club 33,