Having missed the first series of this culinary equivalent of The Apprentice, I am hooked on series 2 of The Restuarant currently showing on BBC2. Raymond Blanc, seen here, takes Alan Sugar's role as Big Cheese, and will open a restaurant with the winning couple. The couples,who have been given some very challenging tasks, including cooking dinner for some Oxford Colleges and running an outlet in a motorway service station, have been truly awful and most of the series so far as provided cringe worthy Gervais-esque comedy.
Alistair and James, how they are in the final three is beyond me. This Fawlty/Brent combo, (I think Ali has the hots for business partner, James, lots of homosexual undercurrents going on) bumble through each challenge, making shocking errors of judgement which have you laughing and screaming at the TV. In last night's episode, it was highly amusing to watch this passionate, successful French man talk about heart and passion, (concerning their cookbooks), becoming very animated and well, very French. The stiff, English lady replies, 'oh, I thought it was rather nice'. She later commented that she made an 'excellent number 2', the irony not being lost in translation for Raymond, or the viewer. Needless to say, she did get the boot in the end. The great thing about this programme, as well as with The Apprentice, you have no idea who is going to win. Personally, I have no favourites, they're all pretty weak!
And talking of weak businesses, put the word out that 8 Kings Road in Southsea, Portsmouth is crap. I haven't had a reply to my complaint, and I've since heard a number of times that people have had similar experiences. 8 Kings Road=Rubbish
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