Hell's Kitchen (U.S. season 5) Hell's Kitchen (U.S. season 5) Season 5 of the American competitive reality television series "Hell's Kitchen" began airing on the Fox Network starting on January 29, 2009. The season concluded on May 14, 2009. Gordon Ramsay returned as head chef, as well as sous chefs Scott Leibfried and Gloria Felix and maître d' Jean-Philippe Susilovic. Executive Chef Danny Veltri won the series and was awarded a sous chef position under Stephen Kalt at Italian restaurant "Fornelletto" at the Borgata in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Danny also received $250,000 in prize money from the show. This season also featured a high
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares 30 January 2009 as part of 'The Great British Food Fight', a two-week series of food-related programming. In the program, Ramsay campaigned for viewers to start supporting local restaurants, especially in a bad economy. In June 2006, Ramsay won a High Court case against the "Evening Standard", which had alleged that scenes and the general condition of the restaurant had been faked for the first episode of "Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares". These allegations followed reports from the previous owner of Bonapartes, Sue Ray. Ramsay was awarded £75,000 plus costs. Ramsay said at the time: "I won't let people write anything they