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The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
Before long, every profession under the sun will have been subjected to a reality-TV contest that both celebrates and debases its practice. Just like the restaurant business (Raymond Blanc), the music business (Simon Cowell), the design business (Philippe Starck) and the business business (Lord Sugar), it was probably only a matter of time before the biggest swinging dick in the art...
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A Curious Girl's Guide to Life (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
I very much enjoyed the first two series of The Restaurant on BBC2, where Raymond Blanc coaches aspiring restrauteurs who are put through tasks each week and eliminated.But this year's show is a travesty.Not only is it many miles away from Raymond's wonderful Le Manoir, and set in Bristol on a shoestring, the couples are so hopeless that I am questioning Monsieur Blanc's...
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The Sagely Wisdom of a British Eccentric (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
This is another of those reality TV shows, fronted by Raymond Blanc, the famous chef, who perhaps wisely, almost never appears. The premise of the show is tha teams of two compete to set up a resturant under Raymond's aegis by fulfilling a series of tasks. This series seems to be infested by a complete bunch of knobheads. Just watching tonights episode (3rd December 2009)there...
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UK Food Bloggers Association (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Alexander Wood replied to Shirley Isaacs's discussion ' The Restaurant - Raymond Blanc ' All I can hope is that there is a get out clause for the judges because I could not even think of investing time in these people let alone any cash, I am sure they are lovely folk (being all PC and that) but I have to agree with the editorial in t...
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The Guardian - TV & Radio blog (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
... behind BBC2's The Restaurant, until the episode where the couple who resembled Wham! convinced Raymond Blanc that a bistro serving mainly Scotch eggs wasn't lunacy, but then Blanc and co joined the "recorded" pile too. Luckily, I find the concept of "outdoors" vastly overrated. I envied George the Blue Peter tortoise enormously every time they placed him...
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mancon news feed (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... much, much more of which later.Anyone who’s been watching The Restaurant on BBC Two will have seen Raymond Blanc doing his best Alan Sugar-with-a-French-accent impression while dangling the carrot of business partnership before a selection of hungry, hapless and often pretty hideous couples. Two episodes in, he had them all sweating at three famous chains: Pizza Express, Yo Sushi...
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Falmouth Packet | News (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... Broadcasting House in London. He was chosen by a panel of judges headed by chef and restaurateur Raymond Blanc, alongside Blur bassist and cheese maker Alex James and Jeanette Orrey, a former dinner lady who worked with TV chef Jamie Oliver on a TV programme and became a campaigner for good school food. John, who has been at the school since October 2007, impressed the judges with...
