Season 2 · Episode 1 — La Lanterna
The venue is La Lanterna in Letchworth, Hertfordshire. Twenty-eight-year-old owner and head chef Alex offers modern Italian cuisine, a taste of Little Italy in England's first garden city. The restaurant is run by his best mate maitre d' Gavin, helped by his ex-air hostess girlfriend Emily. But Alex has no customers, cookers that don't work and an expensive menu that's about as authentically Italian as spag bol. He re-mortgaged his house to buy the business, it's losing £1,000 a week, he hasn't slept for months, but still runs around town in a flash car that's worth more than the restaurant. Running out of money, inspiration and energy, Alex is on the verge of losing everything. Gordon rolls up his sleeves and sets to work on the encrusted kitchen cookers and hapless front-of-house staff. Can a strict diet of brutal honesty, radical food surgery and undiluted energy turn things around, or is it only a matter of time before the lights go out at La Lanterna for good?
Season 2 episodes
E1The venue is La Lanterna in Letchworth, Hertfordshire. Twenty-eight-year-old owner and head chef Alex offers modern Italian cuisine, a tast…
E2Located in Chelmsford, Essex, D-Place is run by Mexican-born Israel and his English partner Tara. They've sunk £150,000 of their own money…
E3Momma Cherri's Soul Food Shack is an intimate forty-seater a stone's throw from Brighton's sea front. Big soul momma, owner Charita Jones,…
E4La Riviera is a fine dining restaurant in Inverness. Owned by multi-millionaire Barry Larson and costing £8,000 a week to run, the place bo…
E5Gordon revisits The Glass House Restaurant in Ambleside where some unexpected departures have taken place. So who is in charge of the kitch…
E6Ramsay revisits the Walnut Tree Inn, set in beautiful Welsh countryside. Last time it was struggling to survive and Gordon gave the owner,…
E7Gordon revisits Moore Place to see if his fast-track guide to restaurant success helped Nick and Richard transform their failing ex-Berni I…
E8Gordon revisits Bonapartes in Silsden to see if his potent recipe of passion, perfectionism and inspirational leadership continues.