The Restaurant

The Restaurant is a reality T.V styled show mid-way through its third series and currently being aired on BBC2. For those who have not caught it- think The Apprentice but with Raymond Blanc instead of Sir Alan Sugar. Nick and Margret, Sir Alan's aides, are here replaced by restauranters in their own right Sarah Willingham and David Moore, who cast a beady eye over nine couples each competing to run their own business in partnership with Raymond Blanc. Each week, another couple is removed from the competition until the chosen finallists are left to go head-to-head against each other. This year's series has sen subtle changes from the previous two in that all ...  Read the complete review

I am writing a review of the current (third) series, as I didn't see all of Series 2, or any of Series 1, so don't feel that I can properly comment upon them. I really enjoy this show. It's on TV on Thursdays on BBC2. The series began with 9 couples auditioning in front of Raymond Blanc and his business partners. Each couple had to prepare a dish at the audition, and present it to Raymond, explaining why it represented what the concept for their future restaurant was all about. 2 couples were knocked out at this stage, which I am a little confused about. Did the BBC only have 7 restaurants in the first place, so Raymond was always told to get rid of 2, or did ...  Read the complete review

The Restaurant is a TV programme shown on BBC 2 on Thursday nights! The show is a reality TV show and is similar to something like the Apprentice but a food version. This show is obviously based on the concept and success of many other TV shows like the Apprentice, food shows like Masterchef and all the other shows like Dragon`s Den, X Factor e.t.c The idea of the show is for world famous chef Raymond Blanc to find a couple to help him run a restaurant and the couples are gradually knocked out week by week until they have the winning couple. It is in its third season and seems to have got a bit worse. I still enjoy it but felt it used to be more ...  Read the complete review

The restaurant is a TV programme showing at the moment on BBC2 fronted by Raymond Blanc it is an upmarket reality TV show. The premise Raymond is looking for a couple top to join him in running a restaurant and the selection process starts with about 10 couples who are wittled down one by one until the couple are picked. The show is in its third season and has been tweaked with a couple of times before its present format, in my opinion the tweaking has detracted from the show rather than added. The first two seasons featured all the couples living in Raymods huge house/restaurant and each had a restaurant somewhere in the South ...  Read the complete review

This will be my very first review of a TV programme - I watch rather a lot of TV but worry I'll give too much away if I review them before the series is out! With this show it is rather different as the ending is already a forgone conclusion, one couple will win the chance to open a restaurant with Raymond Blanc (more on the 'chance' to open bit later). The show is onto its third series and is screened on BBC2 (Wednesday for us in Scotland) Thursday for the rest of the UK. The concept was clearly developed to take advantage of the publics love of reality tv shows and is a combination of the Apprentice, Masterchef and in parts Dragons Den with a sprig of Come ...  Read the complete review