Restaurant: Impossible

The Restaurant

The Restaurant is a reality television series that aired on NBC in 2003, with a second season broadcasting in 2004. The series had encore presentations on CNBC and Bravo. Celebrity chef Rocco DiSpirito opened the Gramercy Park, New York City, restaurant Union Pacific in August, 1997. The NBC series, it was announced, would follow DiSpirito as he launched and operated a new Manhattan restaurant. The first season revolved around the construction and opening of Rocco's on 22nd, scheduled to open in five weeks. Some 7.5 million viewers tuned in for the July 20, 2003 premiere focusing on the search for a location and construction work for the new restaurant. Among the 2000 people who showed up hoping to be hired were various actors, models and show business hopefuls. In addition to Rocco's mother, Nicolina DiSpirito, known for her famous meatballs, the show's on-camera personnel included David Miller, Alex Corrado, Domiziano Arcangeli, Heather Kristin, Natalie Norman, Topher Goodman, Lisa Wurzel, Brian Allen, Gideon Horowitz, Heather Snell, Amanda Congdon, Pete Giovine, Uzay Tumer, Emily Shaw, Lonn Coward, Carrie Keranen, Colleen Fitzgerald, Caroline Matler, Brian Petruzzell, Lola Belle, Susanna Hari, Tony Acinapura, John Charlesworth, Laurent Saillard, Perry Pollaci, Matt DiBarro and Tim Donoho.

Chopped 420

Rising stars of cannabis cuisine tackle mystery ingredients and prepare upscale and refined cannabis dishes. With access to a special 420 Greenhouse of cannabis products, the chefs compete to see who can best integrate THC and CBD in their dishes.

Kitchen Nightmares

Chef Gordon Ramsay hits the road to help struggling restaurants all over the United States turn their luck around. Ramsay examines the problems each establishment faces, from unsanitary refrigerators to lazy or inexperienced staff, and searches for resolutions. With help from his team, Ramsay redecorates each eatery to give it a fresh new look and updates the menu as needed. Ramsay's ultimate goal is to make the restaurants he visits popular and profitable, but it's up to the restaurateurs to take his advice and turn their business nightmare into the American dream.

Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares

Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares is a television programme featuring British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay. The BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning programme debuted on Channel 4 in 2004. In each episode, Ramsay visits a failing restaurant and acts as a troubleshooter to help improve the establishment in just one week. Ramsay revisits the restaurant a few months later to see how business has fared in his absence. Episodes from series one and two have been re-edited with additional new material as Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Revisited; they featured Ramsay checking up on restaurants a year or more after he attended to them. In October 2009 Ramsay announced that after his four-year contract expired in 2011 he would not continue with Kitchen Nightmares and would instead work on his other shows.

Wahlburgers

The youngest of nine siblings, Mark and Donnie are no strangers to being in the spotlight, but now it's older brother Paul's turn to shine as he takes on the challenges of running a burger joint that touts the family name.

Grilled

Grilled is an English reality cooking show aired on Fox Life. India's next big food business idea! This is what this series is about. Riyaaz Amlani, Sarah Todd and Vishal Dadlani evaluate 12 contestants for the right mix of great food idea and the smarts to run a restaurant.

Vanderpump Rules

Follow the passionate, volatile and hot-and-bothered-staff at Lisa Vanderpump’s West Hollywood mainstay SUR. Lisa balances her motherly instincts and shrewd business sense to keep control over this wild group of employees as they pursue their dreams and each other while working at her “Sexy, Unique Restaurant.”

Broken Bread

Broken Bread showcases inspiring people who are making a difference in their communities through food. Restaurant entrepreneur, social activist and acclaimed chef Roy Choi takes viewers on a journey through his hometown, the city of Los Angeles, exploring complex social justice issues while meeting inspiring individuals and organizations who use food as a platform for activism as well as a catalyst for change.

Restaurant Startup

Restaurateur & TV personality Joe Bastianich and chef/restaurateur Tim Love vie against each other to invest their own money in food concepts they believe will make millions. Each week, two teams will compete for a shot at making their dreams come true.

Alex Polizzi: Chefs on Trial

Alex Polizzi takes on the difficult challenge of finding head chefs for restaurants that have a desperate need to fill a vacancy.

American Diner Revival

With the help of friends and family, Ty Pennington and Amanda Freitag cook up a scheme to get beloved local diner owners out of town. Once gone, everyone comes together to renovate, update and revive meaningful and nostalgic small-town diners.

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives

Host Guy Fieri takes a cross-country road trip to visit some of America's classic "greasy spoon" restaurants — diners, drive-ins and dives — that have been doing it right for decades.

De Bogaartjes

They run seventeen restaurants, have six adult children, four grandchildren, a full-fledged petting zoo, and sixteen dogs: meet the flamboyant Bogaart family. This successful hospitality family, known from the NPO program "Where Do They Live From?", opens its doors and takes viewers into their turbulent lives every week, where entrepreneurship, chaos, love, and alpacas alternate at breakneck speed.

Ristorante Coreano

Preawpak Check

Seaside Band

Girls with music genes formed the band, and in 21 days, came to start a music restaurant. They will do all the work in the restaurant and heal the guests each night with their music. And all of their living expenses will come from the income of the restaurant. In addition to laughing, they will present a gentle and powerful comeback against all the difficulties.

Million Dollar Critic

Star Plates

Celebrities sign up for a culinary crash course when they step into the kitchens of their favorite restaurants, cooking side by side with famous chefs.

Pesadelo na Cozinha

A Brazilian reality television series in which chef Érick Jacquin is invited by the owners to spend a week with a failing restaurant in an attempt to revive the business.

Worth It

Steven Lim of BuzzFeed travels to three different restaurants to try the same foods from cheap to expensive prices. After trying them all, the one that is the most worth it is determined.