Secret Garden

Kitchen Nightmares

EP.	TITLE	AIR/PUB'L	GRADE	AUTHOR
1-10	Secret Garden Secret Garden - In the final episode of this first season, Ramsay tussles with a French chef with a man-sized frog in the dining room. Forget the "kitchen," welcome to my nightmares.	2007.12.11 2007.12.13	D+	Keckler
1-9	Campania Campania - Ramsay and Campania's chef work through meatballs, huge portions, and several irate customers to make a success of a New Jersey strip-mall restaurant.	2007.11.27 2007.11.29	D+	Keckler
1-8	Lela's Lela's - Maybe if her champagne tasted like cherry cola, she wouldn't have closed down.	2007.11.20 2007.11.22	F	Keckler
1-7	Finn McCool's Finn McCool's - A family by the name of Mazio owns an Irish restaurant in Westhampton and, oddly, they don't seem to have a very good grasp on shepherd's pie.	2007.11.13 2007.11.15	D-	Keckler
1-6	Sebastian's Sebastian's - Ramsay does his level best to wean a Burbank chef off frozen foods and a menu that requires more decisions than a San Francisco ballot, but fails.	2007.11.06 2007.11.08	C+	Keckler
1-5	Olde Stone Mill Olde Stone Mill - Ramsay morphs into a Gatorade commercial by badgering a self-conscious hot-head restaurateur about the lessons to be learned from failure. Thankfully, the episode's unspoken subtext -- dissolution of a marriage because of financial strife -- is overlooked by the producers.	2007.10.16 2007.10.18	C+	Michael N
1-4	Seascape Seascape - Ramsay helps a son with dead daddy issues clean and revamp his dead daddy's restaurant. And then the guy goes and sells the place. No more daddy issues!	2007.10.09 2007.10.11	C+	Keckler
1-3	The Mixing Bowl The Mixing Bowl - Slightly tamer than in the past few episodes, Ramsay goes back to Lon Guyland to rescue a dire place called The Mixing Bowl Eatery. And he wears minuscule shorts at some point.	2007.10.02 2007.10.04	B-	Keckler
1-2	Lord Of The Flies Dillons - Wanted: One Indian restaurant where the flies don't outnumber the guests.	2007.09.25 2007.09.27	C+	Keckler
1-1	Babylon Dive Peter's - Ramsay gets introduced to the Babylonian Mafia and goes down an inflatable slide.	2007.09.18 2007.09.20	A	Keckler
1-1	La Lanterna La Lanterna - Gordon Ramsay takes a useless chef with vanity plates, a penis-mobile, and a horrific palate for Italian food and transforms him to a chef with vanity plates, a penis-mobile, and an elevated palate for Italian food.	2007.09.13 2007.09.14	A	Keckler