We're going to steak night, we're gonna eat it right. Steak is such a treat,
it is the world's best meat!
like always, Gordon manages to find the most hellish forms of any food we love,
and apparently steak can be pretty odious too.
"Tough" Steak with a Twist of Tragedy A chef with a disproportionate degree of
self-confidence and a restaurant owner who has a
day-long load of alcohol in his system might not
be the best recipe for steak, but it sure is a
guaranteed recipe for a GR-level disaster.
Joe, the owner doesn't have as much confidence
as his bigger-than-life chef though.
He admits that his knowledge of running a restaurant doesn't
amount to much, and if he's right about one thing,
we're sure that this is it.
Chef Eric, on the other hand, thinks that people go to the
restaurant just for him, and he's probably honest about that, if by "people" he meant
FDA agents.
But the real nasty thing about P.J.'s Steakhouse is not the steak per se.
It's the family tragedy that comes with it.
A drunken owner, a frustrated wife/partner, and two
million bucks flushed down the toilet.
And we're not sure what ticked Gordon off more about
the food: the piece of plastic he found inside
it or the coolie sauce the crab cake was attached
to when he got it.
And yes, we mean ATTACHED.
It looks like it wouldn't have let the crab cake
off the hook if it had made infinite flips in
the air.
All this and we didn't even mention what was in store at P.J.'s, like in their
actual storage room.
All that needs to be said is that the tomatoes and the lettuce Gordon
pulled out were not just simply rotten, they looked actually dead inside-out.
It must take a really nasty experience to get a food critic
to hit the street with a camcorder surveying
random bywalkers about their experience with P.J.'s
Steakhouse and then having the entire crew from
the steakhouse watch the survey at a movie theater.
One of the people surveyed said that he BOYCOTTED the restaurant.
That's a pretty big statement.
Charcoal on a plate For a head chef who supposedly "grew up cooking
steak" and who calls himself a "master of the
grill," the steak at Mike and Nellie's does not
give itself off as such at first sight.
For a moment there, Gordon thought he was served
charcoal on a plate, and it certainly did look
like it.
It's generally not a good thing seeing a food critic spit out the food served to
him.
If it's so unpalatable as to put off a food critic like that, we don't want to know what
it was that he chewed into.
We can't blame Gordon!
When someone orders a barbecued steak, they usually want the coal to stay in the back,
not make its way to their plate.
To head Chef Mike, though, this steak qualifies as "prime" steak.
He generally gave his cooking a 9 out of 10 rating.
We guess that 1 point he took away should be his humbleness score.
The chef's daughter was definitely relieved to have Gordon
give it to him about his "soggy" and "bland" food.
If that's what he serves to customers, god knows what she has to put up with when he
decides to make any home experiments.
Half-alive Stuffed Fillet There's undercooked meat, then there's flesh
that was just freshly cut off a living body.
That's what Gordon got when he ordered the Italian stuffed filet mignon at Levanti's.
It was stuffed with LIFE.
He ordered it medium-rare, but apparently what the chef
got from that was "bring it in moving on the plate."
It's one of the nastiest scenes EVER seeing Gordon poke his knife into that red, raw flesh.
According to the chef it was frozen steak, but
maybe, just maybe, that steak was frozen alive.
Such dread can only be served among breadcrumbs and hairballs, and that's exactly what Gordon
found when he slid his finger across one of the
seats.
We have to give it to them, the crew at Levanti's are definitely masters at wrapping
up their food experience with a comprehensive
grim package, including the Carletta sauce that
the head chef got from one of his dreams, along
with olive oil that definitely wasn't nose-friendly.
To top all this, dessert was a two-weeks-old Tiramisu BRICK.
Gordon was literally using it to knock on the plate.
It was all so shocking that even the manager was not really able to process
it all.
Lecithin-Sprayed Steak This restaurant was full of antiques, but
not in the good lavish way that you might imagine.
The chairs were around two decades old, but when
they're not cleaned for over two years, things start to die inside their gaps.
What Gordon found in there was definitely a good
introduction to the fat slices of pure nastiness that were the steaks.
But wait… inside the benches, Gordon actually found old shoes and
combs.
It's not just the grossness of the place now - there are questions that need to be
asked.
What could have possibly led a shoe inside a
steakhouse's bench?
Another antique was the 33-year-old stove standing in a drained kitchen.
Ugly is an understatement, or more like a compliment in this case.
If you're someone who enjoys some rust on their food, you totally
should pay this place a visit.
As for the steak, it was sprayed with a thick white layer of
canned coating to keep it from sticking, and after we did some research, we found out that
this spray contains lecithin, which is a type of
fat that is used for treating dementia and Alzheimer's.
Pretty therapeutical, isn't it?
The only sensical words Gordon got at that
restaurant was from the owner’s son, who said
that his mother had lost her standards over the
last 15 years running the restaurant.
She definitely did lose them all.
Refrigerated Horror Here’s what happens when restaurants don't
have the slightest clue about what compartments
are.
When Gordon went digging into the fridges, it
was just everything on top of everything, and we
mean EVERYTHING.
The stench was obviously frightening, the lamb chops were in decay,
and the steak did not spend a couple of seconds
near Gordon's nose before he threw it back on the
shelf in horror.
And oh, the lamb chops were kept in a tray filled with dirty water, and
for Gordon to be that horrified that they were
the same chops he had eaten from a few minutes
ago, they must have had a really bad stink to them.
Of course, that situation only needed some roaches roaming around the food to be a
full-fledged disaster, and there was a pretty rich supply of that.
Gordon definitely had too many awful experiences inside the kitchens
he has visited to have any degree of hope when
entering a new one, so, when he says something is TEN THOUSAND times worse than he expected,
we must be facing true horror.
Stacked inside a Bloodbath This Irish restaurant was so disastrously
nasty that Gordon obviously took it personally to
the point that he was embarrassed by the food
served in this place.
He was disgusted by the food he had, and so he had to see for himself
what was happening in the kitchen that resulted in this catastrophic lunch he had just eaten.
What he found was perfectly fitting.
The fried chicken was frozen, the pieces were stuck
together, and according to the smiling chef, they were to be refried when ordered.
Inside the fridge the steak stood, the raw meat was
disgustingly laying over cooked meat that was
laying over salami with blood splattered all over it.
Sounds more like a murder scene than a restaurant's fridge.
And the mozzarella sticks - here comes the real nastiness - they were
topped with blood that came from the raw steak stacked right next to them.
Even the restaurant's very owner wanted to throw up
looking at that bloodbath inside her kitchen.
Roof Tile Steak Have you ever ordered a fillet mignon and
a few minutes later found the waiter walking in
with your steak lying over a roof tile?
That's how Gordon got his steak at this restaurant.
The "Flying Tsunami" was served to Gordon on a
roof tile and the butter was poured on it so as
to drip down from the tile.
That certainly doesn't look so pleasant.
The owner was pretty proud of the tile thing though.
He served it himself on a trolley.
Gordon was surprised by the whole thing, but his surprise was magnified by the
chewiness of the steak.
Look, Gordon has had more than his fair share of nasty undercooked,
overcooked, and as you have seen earlier, completely raw meat.
When he says it's the toughest, chewiest filet mignon he has ever
tasted in his entire life, you should take his
word for it.
Eating this piece of rubber off a roof tile definitely qualifies as nasty.
Fried Giraffe’s Tongue This time the nasty steak was not beef, it
was chicken, but still as nasty as it could be.
When Chef Ramsay paid Zeke's restaurant a visit
on a Kitchen Nightmares episode, this fried chicken steak was in the specials, and god
was it a true nightmare.
The bland taste, the dryness, and the lack of any type of seasoning
on the steak made for an awful combination, but
that doesn't make it the nightmare that it looked like.
The real nastiness was all in the display.
That piece of chicken steak looked pretty ugly, and if we had spent a week trying
to describe it we wouldn't have gotten it as
right as Gordon did when he said it looked like
a fried giraffe's tongue.
We must applaud the chef for his accuracy.
Ironically, though, the head chef at the restaurant thought it was
a perfectly "good product."
We guess that chef's degree of self-awareness is as little as his
seasoning.
A Beat-Up Fillet On one of his Kitchen Nightmares expeditions,
Gordon ordered the Steak and Lobster Rocket.
But aside from the poor, funny-looking lobster he got, Gordon was pretty offended by the
steak cut.
If you know anything about Gordon Ramsay, you would know that violating steak laws is
among his list of unforgivable sins.
The man is a passionate steak aficionado.
When the waiter told him that the chef cuts the steak and
then pounds it thin he almost kept himself from
flipping out at him.
(At 13: 25, Gordon says: “He beats the crap out of a filet to tenderize
it when it is the most stunning cut?”)
You know when Gordon is truly pissed off by what he
got when he makes the waiter taste it as a
punishment.
That’s what he did with that Steak Lobster Rocket.
He was appalled to know that the dish cost 36.95 before even tasting it.
We bet that after chewing on that beef and
lobster-flavoured gum, he wanted to burn the place down.
Unchewable Elk In another episode of Kitchen Nightmares,
Gordon heads to the countryside where the meat
is fresh, and the cooking is done the nice old
fashioned way.
Unfortunately for him, he didn't get even one decent bite of steak from that
trip.
When he got there, after a queue of saddening, bland plates, Gordon finally got
his Elk Medallions medium-rare as he likes them.
He literally didn't get past the first bite before
he realized how jaw-breaking it might be to try
and empty out that plate.
The meat was not edible.
He even asked the waitress to give him his feedback, and even she couldn't hide the
fact that it cannot be chewed.
When she went to the chef with Gordon's feedback, he did not
take that lightly.
Not only did he think the elk was fine.
He actually thought it was TENDER, and that the chewiness was an essential
characteristic of elk.
He said that this is how it's done, and he challenged Gordon to give
him a taste of his elk so he can see if it can
get any tender.
That's a man who is pretty proud of his elk.
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