The Restaurant (UK TV Series)
The couples live together in a shared house during the eight-week series. Each week, Blanc sets a task, such as to make as much profit from selling cocktails or desserts. Challenges are set by Raymond Blanc, a successful French chef who owns a number of restaurants in the UK, most notably Le Manoir aux Quat Saisons.Blanc then names the three (or two in later episodes) poorest performing couples that will perform a further challenge. In the specific challenge, the three couples choose or get assigned helpers from amongst the other contestants. The programme concluded as Raymond Blanc chose to start a new restaurant with winners Michele English and Russell Clement.
A third series is scheduled for autumn 2009. In the US, the show has been retitled Last Restaurant Standing by BBC America. A third series of The Restaurant debuted on BBC2 and BBC HD on October 30 2009. .
Some music from the Amelie soundtrack is used the series. The series saw married couple Jeremy and Jane Hooper win the chance to set up their own restaurant, Eight at the Thatch, in the Oxfordshire town Thame, which opened in November 2007. After a period of maternity/paternity leave, Jeremy and Jane stepped down and left Eight at the Thatch, on 5 May. On January 28, 2008 the BBC confirmed the return of the programme for a second series, which began airing on 10 September 2008. The final episode of the second series was screened on October 29 2008, in which finalists Michele and Russell competed against James and Alasdair to provide a high class five-course meal to passengers on the Orient Express.
There is then a boardroom showdown whereby each couple is given individual feedback. All couples are then called in together and the Restaurant of the Week award is presented to the couple deemed to have performed the best during the task.
This did not return for the second series. The couple deemed to be the worst performing are eliminated by Blanc, with the line I m closing your restaurant . The Restaurant is shown twice a week; the first being the task in which all couples take part, and the second being the challenge and subsequent elimination of one couple. The theme music is written by Dru Masters, and other music used includes Waltz No.
The first series aired in spring 2008 and the second series in spring 2009. Nine couples with little or no restaurant experience compete in a series of challenges whilst running their own restaurants. Each couple s restaurant is visited by Blanc s inspectors – restaurant industry experts David Moore and Sarah Willingham - who report back to Blanc on the service, food and organisation of each.
The winning couple are given their own restaurant to run, in Oxfordshire, near to Blanc s own Le Manoir aux Quat Saisons. The first series aired on BBC Two in 2007 and a second series began airing in September 2008. The first series also had its own spin-off, The Restaurant: You re Fried! (a play on The Apprentice: You re Fired!) which aired on BBC Three after the main programme.
2 from Shostakovich s Jazz Suite and Showtime from the soundtrack to Magnolia composed by Jon Brion. Let s Groove Again by Gonzales was used as the music for the programme s promotional trailer. The BBC announced the production of The Restaurant in October 2006, with chef and restaurateur Raymond Blanc named as the star of the series. The first series began airing on August 29, 2007 and drew to a close on October 17, 2007.
The Restaurant is a British reality television series in which a group of couples compete for the chance to set up a restaurant financially backed and personally supported by French chef Raymond Blanc. They then compete again in tasks such as selling the most meals in a cafeteria.
