Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares: 2x4

La Riviera

What’s the BEST RECIPE for a successful restaurant? Top French chefs, the finest ingredients, food fit for a king…

Fine dining restaurant La Riviera in Inverness has it all and more.

All except one teeny weeny thing… CUSTOMERS. Without them, you don’t stand a CHANCE.

And La Riviera is running out of TIME and MONEY.

La Riviera is on a MISSION: to bring sophisticated French cuisine to the home of haggis, tatties and deep-fried Mars bars. So it’s the BEST of everything. It boasts a real DREAM COOKING TEAM: top French chef Loic Lefebvre who’s worked in some of the best restaurants in the world and an impeccably-trained kitchen staff with Michelin star-studded backgrounds. The produce is ultra-fresh and top quality – the veg is flown in from France. Even the equipment is top of the league. So far, so good.

But delivering the very best costs… BIG TIME. Multi-millionaire owner Barry Larson is tearing his hair out as La Riviera is costing him a cool £8,000 a week to run – and that’s on t