Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares: Season 2

NPR calls Gordon Ramsay "the world's greatest TV chef" (he's won 16 Michelin stars) and "the Dr. House of sick restaurants." This International Emmy®-winning reality series gives him one week to bring failing restaurants back from the brink of collapse. Full of Ramsay's passion for food and his famously peppery language, it's "compulsive viewing"-Observer (UK). SDH subtitles; Series 2 is 10 episodes; approx. 481 min. on 3 DVDs. For mature audiences.

Disc 1
Episode 1
Lanterna (Letchworth, Hertfordshire)
A British chef who calls himself "Alessandro" claims to offer authentic Italian food, provoking Gordon to use another F-word: fake.

Episode 2
D-place (Chelmsford, Essex)
Offering fusion confusion on its menu and full-scale screaming matches between the head chef and maitre d', D-place is a real disaster.

Episode 3
Momma Cherri's Soul Food Shack (Brighton, East Sussex)
The owner has personality to spare, and the head chef has talent. So why doesn't this tourist-town eatery make money?

Episode 4
Momma Cherri's Soul Food Shack/Big House Revisited
Two years after his first visit, Gordon finds that the bighearted momma has moved to the Big House-with big problems.

Disc 2
Episode 5
La Riviera (Inverness, Scotland)
Despite the finest resources, an ambitious, superbly trained chef has failed to win over local folks with his too fancy French cuisine.

Episode 6
La Riviera/Abstract Revisited
With a spin-off brasserie going like gangbusters, La Riviera-newly rechristened as Abstract-falls back to Frankensteinian rather than Franco-Scottish creations.

Episode 7
The Sandgate (Kent)
With four restaurants serving 168 dishes, the Sandgate suffers from lack of focus in its kitchen and too little discipline among its staff.

Disc 3
Episode 8
Clubway 41 (Blackpool, Lancashire)
This dysfunctional enterprise in a resort town provides Gordon the perfect place to detail his nine rules for how not to run a restaurant.

Episode 9
Oscar's (Nantwich, Cheshire)
Named for the Irish writer Oscar Wilde, this seemingly friendly restaurant has serious family problems bubbling below the surface.

Episode 10
La Gondola (Derby, East Midlands)
Still stuck in the past, this once lively dining-and-dancing establishment has fallen far from its heyday in the '70s-but the owner doesn't seem to notice.

"Amazingly impressive and intuitive when it comes to knowing just how exactly to make a restaurant work"-Film Intuition

"A real gem"-Quick Stop Entertainment

"A brilliant, and entertaining, restructuring of the TV cooking show format"-DVD Talk

"Leave it to the British to make a reality TV show that works"-Fulvue-DriveIn

"It's terrific fun and highly engrossing"-Film Intuition

International Emmy Award Winner for Non-Scripted Entertainment (UK) (2006)

BAFTA TV Award Nomination for Best Features (2006)

BAFTA TV Award Nomination for Best Features (2005)

National Television Award (UK) Nomination for Most Popular Factual Programme (2008)

National Television Award (UK) Nomination for Most Popular TV Expert (Gordon Ramsay, 2005)

National Television Award (UK) Nomination for Most Popular Factual Programme (2004)