On Mar 5, 2:45 pm, "Default User" > wrote:
> Lin wrote:
> > Top Chef is on Bravo. Earlier in the season I saw Bravo's mother
> > ship, NBC, airing episodes of Top Chef. Now they have a new series
> > based on BBC's "Last Restaurant Standing" airing in the next week.
>
> I think the latter is sort of a mixture of LRS and Hell's Kitchen. If I
> remember correctly, there are couples, but they're still in a team
> situation with only two restaurants, rather than individual ones.
>
> That was a feature I liked about LRS (aka "The Restaurant"), in that
> each couple was on its own, at least in the initial challenge. The ones
> up for elimination often had help from the "safe" ones in the final
> challenge.
>
> Brian
>
> --
> Day 30 of the "no grouchy usenet posts" project

They started out this current series with chef Raymond Blanc, and I
think 9 couples or so - father/daughter, *** men pair, married pairs,
etc. Each week (after the initial one or two), 2 or 3 of the pairs
are brought together for a final challenge to see which one gets their
restaurant "closed." Each pair has their own restaurant. The final
couple has the "Last Restaurant Standing," and purportedly goes into
business with Blanc. I'm finding him kind of insufferable this go-
round, I don't know why.

What you're thinking of - only two restaurants - sounds like
"restaurant wars" episodes on Top Chef.

I don't find any "Hell's Kitchen" flavor to LRS - Blanc is critical,
as are his two minions, but they don't scream and yell like Ramsey,
and all the professionals appear to be interested in each couple
putting forth the best effort/best food possible for the patrons of
their individual restaurants.

N.