Kitchen Nightmares 2024 Update: Peter's Italian Restaurant: Babylon New York: S1E1
Peter's Italian restaurant in Babylon New York was featured on the tv show Kitchen Nightmares in 2007. It was the first episode of the series and followed siblings Tina and Peter. The restaurant was so in debt that collectors were interrupting filming. Find out what happened to this restaurant and an update on the owners by the end of this video!
Transcript
00:00Today we take a look at Season 1, Episode 1 of Kitchen Nightmares starring Chef Gordon Ramsey
00:05as he visits Peter's Italian Restaurant in Babylon, New York.
00:14Debt collectors were showing up at the restaurant during filming,
00:17something that was probably a normal occurrence.
00:19When Gordon was in the middle of showing them the new menu,
00:21one of the collectors made an appearance and Peter made it into a spectacle.
00:25Well, you are interfering, that's what I'm saying. Go out of the way.
00:28Hey, would you mind-
00:28I'm not interfering, I gotta wait two minutes, I gotta talk.
00:31Get out of the way.
00:32What?
00:32Why don't you go out of the way so we can go on?
00:34Gordon's polite request to get out of the way didn't do it,
00:37so Peter steps in to try to defuse the situation, but that's not his specialty.
00:44Watch how he shoves Gordon and grabs his sister's arm.
00:47Relax, relax.
00:47Get the f*** out of here.
00:48Who do you think you're scaring for f***ing?
00:49Who the f*** are you?
00:50Relax, relax.
00:51Oh, s***.
00:54Once outside, their father Yogi takes a hard tumble on the sidewalk.
00:57You son of a b****, my father!
01:01And this sets Peter off.
01:02While the debt collector is helping him up,
01:04Peter hits the guy and continues to challenge him to a fight.
01:07You can see the head chef trying to hold Peter back, who is twice his size.
01:11The debt collector made what could have been a fatal mistake.
01:14He parallel parked in front of the restaurant.
01:16For some reason, he didn't predict Peter going off and not calmly giving him his money.
01:20As we can see, he boxed himself in, making his getaway less than smooth.
01:24You're embarrassing me.
01:25That's an understatement.
01:27F*** this guy!
01:28Get inside.
01:29Get in, tough guy!
01:32Get in!
01:34Right now!
01:36Right now!
01:38Come on, big boy.
01:38Take it easy.
01:39Come in here.
01:39Come in, come in.
01:41Peter is ready to sick his friends on the guy.
01:43I'm sending five guys to his house right now.
01:45Jeremy and guys are on their way right now.
01:46These are my two best friends, Jerry and Jerry.
01:48Jerry and Jerry.
01:50The whole situation has Peter seeking nourishment.
01:53Give me a salad!
01:54Give me a salad!
01:55With the meat tenderizer in hand,
01:57Peter is still raging from the interruption, a little too close to Gordon.
02:01You're getting f***ing hot-headed every night.
02:02What? You see my father on the phone?
02:04I know!
02:05So what do you mean I'm getting hot-headed?
02:06I'm saying relax.
02:07Gordon assures Peter he tried to tell the guy to go away,
02:10then checks in with Yogi, who isn't phased by the situation.
02:14Calm down, calm down, calm down.
02:15Hey, I told him to get out.
02:17Are you okay?
02:18They fight a lot.
02:20You know, these things happen.
02:21Peter's restaurant is located at 132 Montauk Highway in Babylon, New York.
02:26It's owned by siblings Tina and Peter.
02:29I want to cry or commit bloody murder.
02:31Instead of buying a stove, I bought a suit, you know?
02:33My appearance, my car, my clothes.
02:36Why got sauce on my suit?
02:37I take care of myself and it shows.
02:39You know what I mean?
02:41Moron!
02:42Their father Yogi helps out when he can.
02:44I'm the only son that's made.
02:46Their head chef is Robert,
02:47who works with what he can in the area they call the kitchen.
02:50And you're the head chef?
02:51I'm the head chef.
02:52Excellent.
02:52The shouting from the kitchen seems to be a normal thing to hear in the dining room
02:56if they can't keep it together while Gordon is there.
03:01Let's take a look at some of the dishes Gordon chose from the current menu.
03:05They are homemade, yes.
03:06Enjoy.
03:09Looks terrible, the salad.
03:10And cold in the middle.
03:11And that's not fresh crab meat.
03:13Gross.
03:15That's not even lobster.
03:16That's just like baby food inside gunk.
03:19It's never good when Gordon inspects their food storage.
03:22For some reason, maybe not to be biased,
03:25he eats their food before inspecting the back, which is always bad.
03:29Let's take a look at some of the things he found in this restaurant.
03:32That is sour and has to be four weeks old.
03:35Just, just, just smell that for me.
03:37I just got it off.
03:38Yeah, okay.
03:39Just, just smell it though, Tina.
03:43Oh, that's right.
03:44Would we really serve that?
03:46No.
03:46Wait, does it just fall under the chef's job?
03:48Gordon likes to be dramatic.
03:50This is one of those times.
03:51You become famous in the next 24 hours for fucking poisoning half of Babylon.
03:55Part of the show is renovating the restaurant, investing money in some way.
03:58Usually they redecorate the dining room or buy new equipment,
04:02which is a surprise to the owner.
04:03Peter was operating and serving food from a kitchen that could barely be called that.
04:08The broiler doesn't work proper.
04:10This oven does not work.
04:11We use it as storage.
04:13We keep our towels and stuff in here.
04:15When was the last time a new piece of equipment was bought in this kitchen?
04:18They never put a nickel into this.
04:20Chef Ramsay puts Peter and Yogi in the kitchen to see if they can cook anything,
04:24since Peter thought it was a good idea to buy a suit instead of a stove.
04:28Why is this burner don't go lower?
04:30Welcome to my world.
04:32What the fuck is that?
04:33This is a clusterfuck.
04:35The show renovated the kitchen, giving it the update it truly needed.
04:39Your new kingdom.
04:40This is really a good thing.
04:42Now I can really have a real kitchen.
04:44The new menu was created with fresh homemade dishes,
04:47mostly pasta, with family servings in mind.
04:50Peter's was shut down at the end of 2008.
04:52Their episode aired at the end of 2007.
04:55Tina has been active on social media and she seems to be doing well.
04:59She continued to work in the restaurant industry,
05:01moving to Connecticut for a job in 2012.
05:04It's been said that she went into real estate and is doing well.
05:07Peter isn't hiding, or so it seems, because there's no trace of him on the internet.
05:12It's said that he had connections with the mob, so who knows where he could be.
05:16Yogi died sometime before 2012.
05:18The bar beside the restaurant, called The Post Office,
05:21opened since 1978, bought the restaurant with a fancy new kitchen,
05:25and is still operating today.
05:26I hope you enjoyed this video.
05:28And if you did, make sure to subscribe.
05:30Thanks for watching.