Unlike Hell's Kitchen, which seems just a sadistic exercise to embarrass its cheftestants, Gordon Ramsay's other show, Kitchen Nightmares is educational, enlightening, and sometimes, even feel-good. And what's more, his help seems to actually turn around failing restaurants.
I got a nice e-mail from one of the casting people recently, asking for suggestions on candidates for the next season of the show. I blanked. I couldn't think of any, which must mean that I've been lucky with only good restaurants so far…I guess.
So I'm asking you guys, our readers: Which restaurant in O.C. do you think needs Ramsay's tough-love, and most importantly, his help?
No needless bashing please. Only suggest places that you'd WANT to root for.
Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.