Hell hath no fury like an angry chef, and no chef has a sharper temper than Gordon Ramsay when things go wrong in the kitchen. Now Gordon has taken Kitchen Nightmares across America, giving some of the worst restaurants Stateside a wake-up call they’ll never forget.

The venue for this weeks programme is The Mixing Bowl, a bijou diner in Bellmore, New York run by talented chef Billy with his wife Lisa and their Monty Python -esque manager, Mike. Despite Billy’s flair in the kitchen, the business is haemorrhaging money via Mike’s out-of-control marketing plans.

If he doesn’t stop spending, the restaurant faces imminent closure. Enter Gordon, whose recipe for reversing the diner’s disastrous finances sets him on a violent collision course with Mike. Can he force him to see sense, or will the restaurant close for good?

Wednesday 23 January 2008, Channel 4, 10PM