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Lanterna

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May 23, 2005

The venue for tonight’s 1st program is La Lanterna in Letchworth, Hertfordshire. Alex has no customers, cookers that don’t work, and an expensive menu that’s about as authentically Italian as a spagbol. Can Gordon's honesty help turn things around?

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Season 2, 8 episodes

The venue for tonight’s 1st program is La Lanterna in Letchworth, Hertfordshire. Alex has no customers, cookers that don’t work, and an expensive menu that’s about as authentically Italian as a spagbol. Can Gordon's honesty help turn things around?

48m May 23, 2005

Tonight’s venue is D-Place, Chelmsford. The plastic food is dire and bounces back from the dining room as soon as it’s cooked. Faced with dysfunctional staff and a disastrous menu, Gordon is about to face the longest week of his professional life.

48m May 30, 2005

The venue for tonight’s programme is Momma Cherri’s Soul Food Shack. The food’s hard to fault but the punters are nowhere to be seen, and despite working a seven-day week owner Charita’s got an empty restaurant and a £65,000 debt.

49m Jun 6, 2005

Tonight's venue is La Riviera, a fine dining restaurant in Inverness. There's a sharp smell of déjà vu in the air for Gordon whose own venture in Scotland - Amaryllis - had to close, and he wants to save La Riviera from the same fate.

48m Jun 13, 2005

The venue for tonight's program is Clubway 41, despite being voted Blackpool Tourist Board Restaurant of the Year, the place is in dire straits and is a prime example of how NOT to run a restaurant. Gordon faces a hellish week!

48m Mar 6, 2006

Tonight's program sees Gordon Ramsay in Oscars, Nantwich. On the surface this place seems idyllic, an Irish family run restaurant in the heart of beautiful countryside, but it proves to be Gordon's toughest challenge yet.

48m Feb 20, 2006

In tonight's program, Gordon Ramsay travels to the seaside to help ailing hotel and restaurant, THE SANDGATE. Eccentric, overstaffed, and on the point of collapse can Gordon bring this real-life Fawlty Towers back from the edge?

48m Feb 27, 2006

This week Gordon is at La Gondola, in Derby. Stuck in a time warp with naff 70s cuisine, net curtains, and no customers. Head chef Steve is one of the worst Gordons ever met, and would rather open a tin of tuna or use a packet than create a proper meal.

47m Mar 13, 2006