Kitchen Nightmares

Found in Moorpark, California, The Secret Garden is a romantic French restaurant owned by Chef Michel Bardavid that is on the brink of bankruptcy. Chef Ramsay puts up with the resistant owner as he suggests changing the odious décor, the complicated menu and the filthy kitchen.

Located in Pomona, California, Lela's is an upscale restaurant in desperate need of clientele. When Chef Ramsay gets in the kitchen and starts criticizing the menu items, the executive chef is less than thrilled, leading to a showdown in front of the entire staff.

Chef Ramsay must turn a pizzeria in Burbank, California into a place people want to eat at. Sebastian's prepares frozen food from a complicated menu and the wait staff is more concerned about auditioning for their next big roles than serving meals.

Chef Ramsay visits the family-run Finn McCool's in Westhampton, New York and faces an obnoxious head chef who happens to be the owner's son.

Located in Bellmore, New York, The Mixing Bowl is on its last legs. The eatery faces an influx of competition and has virtually no customers. Chef Ramsay faces a tough challenge as he strives to correct problems with the restaurant's appearance and menu, as well as its staffing problems.

Located in Islip, New York and owned by a mother and her son, Seascape has seen better days. Ramsay must work with a hard-headed chef and the inexperienced owners to make some changes and bring back customers.

Chef Ramsay heads to Fair Lawn, New Jersey to find a lackadaisical wait staff hurting the Italian restaurant Campania's.

Chef Ramsay visits Peter's, a family-run Italian restaurant in Babylon, New York. He discovers that the eatery is sinking because of its brash manager and co-owner.

Chef Ramsay travels to The Olde Stone Mill in Tuckahoe, New York. Although the front has been renovated, the kitchen still serves less-than-stellar food.

Chef Ramsay is in the Big Apple to try and revamp Dillon's, an Indian restaurant just two blocks away from his own thriving eatery. Owner Mohammed loses approximately $25,000-$50,000 a month, and his monetary slide continues by the day. Although he refuses to see the error of his ways, Mohammed admits that he cannot continue down this path much longer.

Chef Ramsay visits Mount Sinai, New York to help spruce up Bill and Carolyn LeRoy's Handlebar restaurant and lounge, which looks like its stuck in the 1980s.

Chef Ramsay heads to Great Neck, New York to whip the Italian restaurant Trobiano's back into shape. The problem is that it's swimming in nearly a half-million dollars of debt. To add further insult to injury, when Ramsay confronts the owner about the cleanliness of the kitchen and the tastiness of the food, tensions rise.

Chef Ramsay travels to West Nyack, New York to help out a family-run Mexican restaurant called Fiesta Sunrise. The joint is not only in deep financial trouble, but it is also extremely dirty. Can Ramsay get the family on the path to success?

Chef Ramsay heads to Cranbury, New Jersey and visits a French bistro called Hannah and Mason's. Owned by two friends who lack business skills and motivation, the restaurant administers bounced checks to the staff. But that's nothing compared to the item Ramsay finds in the walk-in cooler that causes him to shut the joint down on Valentine's Day.

Journeying to Stamford, Connecticut, Chef Ramsay visits Sabatiello's, finding a hot-headed owner who is a million dollars in debt. Mutiny is in the air and the owner's staff turn against him; he gets so angry at his employees and Ramsay's criticism that he shuts down the eatery himself.

Chef Ramsay visits Black Pearl, a seafood restaurant located in New York City that has three owners, each running the kitchen in a different manner. This leads to a confused staff and variable quality in food. And on top of all this, one of the owners resists changing his ways.

Located in South Bend, Indiana, J. Willy's Bar and Grille is $1.2 million in debt. When Chef Ramsay arrives in the Hoosier town, he challenges the owners to use fresh ingredients, but the inexperienced chefs get overwhelmed, driving one customer to tears.

In the season finale, Chef Ramsay drops by Café 36, a French-American eatery in La Grange, Illinois. The couple who own the place are sorely lacking in business skills. They need Ramsay's expertise to teach them how to manage the head chef and how to draw customers in.

Chef Ramsay makes his way to Macomb Township, Michigan to inspect Giuseppe's, a family-run Italian restaurant afflicted with a bickering father-son duo and a shortage of customers.

Chef Ramsay spends a week at Jack's Waterfront in St. Clair Shores, Michigan. The restaurant suffers from a lack of fresh seafood and inattentive management. Ramsay's goal is to make the eatery prosperous year-round, but the general manager's excessive socializing with patrons may stand in the way of his plan. Will Ramsay save the place before it sinks?

Chef Ramsay travels to Los Angeles, California to inspect Sante La Brea. He discovers a financially strapped restaurant owner who isn't respected by his staff. Spoiled ingredients and a shortage of customers plague the restaurant. And an incident that occurs in the eatery results in a visit from the police.

When Chef Ramsay returns to Finn McCool's, The Olde Stone Mill, The Mixing Bowl, Dillon's, Campania's and Peter's, he finds restaurants saved from the brink of disaster.