Kitchen Nightmares: Season 1
  • Network: FOX
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 19, 2007
  • Season #: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
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Metascore
66 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critics What's this?

User Score
7.5 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 31 Ratings

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  • Summary: Chefs may have escaped from his version of hell, but Gordon Ramsay haunts Fox with his American adaptation of his UK show of the same name.
  • Genre(s): Reality, Game Show, Food & Cooking

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 12
  3. Negative: 2 out of 12
  1. Kansas City Star
    Reviewed by: Aaron Barnhart
    90
    Since CBS doesn’t want us to see "Kid Nation" in advance, I guess I’ll just have to declare Kitchen Nightmares the best new reality show of the fall.
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Phil Gallo
    80
    Kitchen Nightmares is shockingly good storytelling and hilarious. This may be the most compelling show of the new season
  3. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Ray Richmond
    50
    Kitchen Nightmares pushes all of the proper emotional buttons to draw we viewers in. But we're never for a moment able to suspend the notion that we, the audience, are being played.
  4. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Maureen Ryan
    30
    Leave it to Fox to take something the Brits did pretty well and muck it up.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 20
  3. Negative: 1 out of 20
  1. RS
    10
    This is a great show. Yes he can be rough and mean and almost done right hateful, but I would be to with dealing with some of these bone heads he deals with. I live in the kitchen myself and to see some of these places makes me sick.… Collapse
  2. EricE
    8
    I just can't get enough of Ramsey. He is rude, brash, brazen and insulting, but I love it. Some of the stuff these restaurants do really make you wonder when you go into someplace to eat. I almost want to tell the hostess I have to tour their kitchen first after watching this show.… Expand
  3. MarkD
    7
    As others have said, it all seems a bit contrived especially when you compare it to the British version which had less of the melodrama and screaming and showed a bit more of the real Ramsay. This is still entertaining in it's own silly way though.… Expand
  4. KW
    4
    BBC version was great. Showed a depth to Ramsay I didn't know. He showed that he really cared about the restaurant owners. Fox shows that they like their Brits obnoxious and nasty. Something tells me that Simon is probably nicer in the UK version of "Idol."… Expand

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