Kitchen Nightmares
Kitchen Nightmaresaired for seven season from 2007 - 2014 , as thepotty - mouthed Chef Gordon Ramsaytraveled across the U.S. adjudicate to facilitate thresh eatery get out of debt , ameliorate service , and deform themselves around . He receive discord among staff , owner who did n’t know what they were doing ( or who had simply lost their cacoethes ) , people in over their heads , and carte that were lacking .
At times , he discovered so much more behind why these restaurants were n’t thrive . Some were dirty , not using fresh ingredients , had chef who did n’t know how to misrepresent , go out décor , or a 10000 of other things that impeded their chances of winner . But sometimes what Ramsay unearthed was vile , disgusting , and downright tummy - turning . Here are some of the most dread restaurants sport in the series .
Lela’s
It ’s never good when Gordon has to fret on something in the kitchen . What ’s worse is that Lela ’s had n’t even managed to keep their fridge on the correct temperature , post most of their green goods rotten .
Chef Ramsay was not impressed by the way the Californian eating place was run . From spelling mistakes on the card to a lack of kitchen knowledge , it ’s no surprisal that Lela ’s conclude due to ridiculously high debts .
Trobiano’s
It ’s difficult to determine what ’s worse . The fact the kitchen clearly had n’t been cleaned properly in old age , resulting in a buildup of grime and muck , or the fact that there were real rat dung in that very same place that nutrient is prepared .
When a relationship with the in - natural law is involved too , most argument are n’t exactly go to stop well . With personal feud , terrible food for thought hygiene , and mount debts , the restaurant was seized by the state for missing a whole host of taxation payments .
Seascape
While the New York restaurant had an interesting apparatus , being placed on an sure-enough ship , lamentably it just did not experience up to expectations . Once again the kitchen was a sodding mickle that desperately needed a proper clean .
With the smell of sewage coming into the restaurant , it was not a respectable signal of thing to come . Gordon was even swear out pesto that was already out of date and repelling ! Needless to say , the owners speedily sell the restaurant on to new direction .
Peter’s
Another restaurant that failed to understand how to work a freezer properly , Peter ’s New York Italian eating place was struggling to stay afloat after serve insecure solid food for many calendar month .
The fiscal struggles were so dire that a debt gatherer turns up in the middle of the installment , which quickly leads to a genuine fight . Eventually , the owners sold to new mass and there were rumors that Peter ’s actually had connection to the mob .
Burger Kitchen
The most repellant matter about Burger Kitchen was the owners . Despite a genuinely gifted chef , they completely ruined the food with their own conspiracies and awful direction , leading to a uncommon two - parter .
think that there was a plot against the eatery , the owner believed that Yelp was really conspiring against them . Fake coughs aside , the poor leadership mean that Burger Kitchen was quickly sell on . fan have their own conspiracies though that the episode was really staged .
Dillon’s
When Ramsay call this New York City restaurant , he encountered fly papers wholly covered with beat flies , a pot of some kind of enigma sauce with mold growing on it , Warren E. Burger that were mouldy , chicken that was gullible , and old potatoes . Oh , and did we remark that all of these food were in reality attend to to him ?
appear in the first time of year of the series right smart back in 2007 , Dillon ’s was rename Purnima , but terminate up closing in 2009 . The general manager at the time reportedlytried to litigate the showto prevent the installment from airing .
Casa Roma
waste veggie and sour essence are the everlasting combining for a vile and disgusting meal , which is what Ramsay found being served at this restaurant during an episode that publicize in time of year 3 in 2010 . situate in Lancaster , CA , none of the intellectual nourishment had any label ( do a smell test to see if it ’s still good , I guess ? ) , heart and soul was rock hard and soaking in its own blood , and a parma ham had been growing mold .
This is yet another kitchen that do Ramsay to physically hurl after he saw ( and smelled ) a three - month - old rack of ribs . The grossness stretch out to the bathroom , which had bodily fluids everywhere , as if it had n’t been pick in months . While the restaurant stay open for some clip , it finally close down in 2017 .
The Secret Garden
One word : maggots . Yes , this restaurant had maggot feasting on rotted produce in the refrigerator , which itself was filled with mould . It was so bad that Ramsay , who typically has a pretty stiff tum for these kinds of things , had to carry to the can to throw up .
Meanwhile , the ovens used to cook all of the presumably fresh and yummy meals were cake with filth and seriously dirty . This Moorpark , CA restaurant , which was the first time of year ’s finale episode , had been easy ameliorate in customer ratings after Ramsay and his team brush in to help turn thing around . But it end up closing in 2015 , as the business was sell .
Spanish Pavilion
Do you know what would make a tank of alive lobsters completely unappetizing ? A dead lobster floating around with them , pollute them with bacterium before they ’re pulled out to be boiled and serve . Ramsay headed to the walk - in where he base more dead lobster and slimy snails . And then there was that pigeon in the kitchen .
The episode about this Harrison , NJ restaurant kicked off the fourth seasonof the showin 2011 , and it ’s one of the few that appears to still be undefended . Its latest reviews are relatively positive , with travelers and local anesthetic praise the large luck , delicious food , and great service .
Fiesta Sunrise
Rife with rotten food at every corner , things take a really porcine turn at this West Nyack , NY restaurant when Ramsay caught a server taking chips that were leftover on a guest ’s plate and placing them back into a drawer to be re - served to someone else .
Along with vile , rotten , smelly fish and bad kernel pawn in its own descent , the eatery also had chicken so rancid that Ramsay in reality gagged when seeing and smelling it . Making things worse was that he set up cockroaches all over the kitchen . The restaurant closed before the sequence even air in time of year 2 , reportedly because they neglect to pay their back taxation .
