Hell's Kitchen (U.S. season 9) Hell's Kitchen (U.S. season 9) Season 9 of the American competitive reality television series "Hell's Kitchen" premiered on July 18, 2011, on Fox and concluded on September 19, 2011, with a two-hour season finale. Jr. sous-chef Paul Niedermann won the season and was awarded a "head chef" position at BLT Steak in New York City, New York. Gordon Ramsay returned as head chef, as Scott Leibfried and Andi van Willigan remained as sous chefs, as did James Lukanik as the maître d'. The entire season took about six weeks to film. It also saw the show return to its original
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