‘Hell’s Kitchen’ comes to Westchester

July

In the wasteland that is summer network television, my one and only guilty pleasure has been the Gordon Ramsey show, “Hell’s Kitchen” on FOX. Actually, no, that’s not accurate: I’m not guilty about liking this show at all. It 100 percent kicks ass. If you’ve ever dined at a resturant and (A) waited an hour for appetizers, (B) gotten an entree that’s stone cold, or© wanted to bitch out the chef in the kitchen for totally, completely disappointing you, Ramsey’s rants are borderline poetic. Every time he screams at one of the incompetent contestants, you’ll feel like he’s blowing his top on your behalf. Or maybe not. But it’s still damn entertaining.

The reason I’m sharing all of this here is that over on my colleague Liz Johnson’s blog, Small Bites, she’s got news that a Ramsey protege, Neil Ferguson, is going to be taking over as the head chef at Monterverde at Oldstone Manor. Whether Ferguson will be having “Hell’s Kitchen”-caliber blow ups in Cortlandt Manor, I can’t say. But I do know this much: After watching the mind-blowingly bad crop of contestants on the TV show, whatever he serves at Monteverde will look good by comparison.

(Gordon Ramsey Photo: Kharen Hill/FOX)

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 19th, 2007 at 11:34 am by Ted Mann.
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