Kitchen Confidential - The Complete Series

A real chef tv show. Any real chef can relate and yes this is our lives and how we live them.

In Kitchen Confidential, Bradley Cooper stars as Jack Bourdain, a NYC chef who is working at picking up the pieces of his lackluster career after years of drinking and drugging. In the first episode, Jack is working as a chef at a Chuck E. Cheese-esque kid's Italian restaurant and living with his girlfriend--also the restaurant's manager. When he's offered the position of head chef at hip bistro Nolita, Jack sees his chance to rebuild his name as a great chef, and get out of the rut he's in.He assembles his kitchen staff from his old coworkers including: Steven, a British thug who's been known to cause plenty of mischief and will serve as Jack's sous-chef; Seth, a pastry chef with a crush on the hostess and a penchant for wearing bandannas as neckties; Teddy, an Asian seafood genius who has a volatile relationship with Jack; and Jim, the nerdy newbie who Jack inherits from the old chef. Together, the team creates an inspiring menu and helps put Nolita on the map as one of the new hip NYC restaurants.Kitchen Confidential takes all of the best parts of Anthony Bourdain's memoir and twists it just enough to make it entertaining fiction rather than verbatim retelling. Bradley Cooper plays the part of Jack Bourdain with just enough wit and candor to remind viewers of Anthony, but with enough of his individual style to make the role his own. The supporting cast are nothing if not hilarious, and the stories of life inside a kitchen will provide fans of shows like Top Chef and Hell's Kitchen with a little fictional fuel for the culinary interest fire. As always, Fox cancelled the show after only 4 episodes aired, but hopefully with the success of the DVD sales (a la Family Guy) viewers might be in store for more Kitchen Confidential in the future.

I feel weird about writing a content review when Amazon is just providing the media but here it goes! The DVD and packaging arrived in nice condition. I hate that I have to buy physical media but at the moment, Kitchen Confidential isn't streaming on any platform I can find. For a cheap price, I bought instead of pirated. Kitchen Confidential itself is fabulous. It was one of those shows that was ahead of its time by a few years and I believe it would have been super successful if it had come out after the celebrity chef/cooking show boom.

What's with all the red on white? It happens on the very first episode. Chop! and a chef's finger tip gets cut off, with blood splattering and squirting over a clean white uniform. Oy vey! or should we say, "Mamma Mia"! Then, the waiters have to search for the finger tip in someone's food platter, which is somewhere among all the other food platters in the dining room. I guess that's what happens with too many chefs in the kitchen with sharp knives and bad, arrogant tempers and big, fat mouths.OK, I don't recall any more gore in the other 12 episodes. There is a lot of witty banter, exaggerated flirtations, physical humor, lewdness, jealousies, weirdness, over-the-top humor, craziness, betrayals, drunkeness, infidelity, uncomfortable situations, situations that are "too comfortable" ... Well, you get the point. This would be called adult humor, although, it is not as explicit, (in some cases), as one would expect from my descriptions; this was a Fox TV show (with 13 episodes total) and it was within TV guidelines.In the state where I live, I think the expression would be that the episodes were "wicked funny". I'll just call the show fast, frenetic and funny and comedically crazy and absurd.Oh, don't forget the food: lobster, Portuguese eels, animal organs, rabbit meat, pastries, and so on; and there was even a little furry critter crawling about the storeroom in the episode with the food inspector.Quite enjoyable, though sometimes over the top, comedy that will make you laugh and sometimes cringe.

KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL is as funny and as bracing as it needs to be, and everything people say about it is right as rain. I watched all 13 episodes back to back and was crushed when it sank in, there's not going to be any more.That said, I can see why people didn't pick up on it at first. Yes, we're dumb animals who don't know what to make of satire, but the KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL satire was pretty lame. The real trouble was the writers relying on the same basic plot in every episode, which gets tiresome--the plot in question, a challenge to Jack Bourdain's kitchen superiority and consequently his manhood. This pattern lasted well behind the first four episodes, and who knows, would probably still be the master narrative of the show had it not been taken off the air.While many of the men were perfectly cast--and we loved seeing Nicholas Brendon from Buffy and little John Francis Daley now all grown up, though he'll always be Sam Weir to me, the little boy on FREAKS AND GEEKS--Bradley Cooper is maybe a little too lightweight to play the macho, womanizing, hard-living Bourdain character.The women's roles were more problematic. They never did figure out what to do with Bonnie Somerville, what a waste, and while Jaime King was cute and appealing throughout, she never got to play anything but the dumb dingbat--really the Gracie Allen role, but tricked and manipulated into objectification by all the guys on the show. Only Erinn Hayes, as a rival chef, got to play a more three dimensional character, but even she was sometimes hard to take with her constant, abrasive, ambition and her crass sense of humor.But in general, the show was brilliant on many levels and it will be sorely missed. Maybe it's good it went out when it did, for how many shows suffered from sophomore slump and never cough LOST ever cough HEROES got back on track again?

This show got axed for all the wrong reasons

Amazing show, to bad it only went one season. It was to be based on Anthony bourdain and is experience in kitchens

Il s'agit d'un DVD zone 1, donc pas lisible par tous les lecteurs.En plus, il n'y a ni français audio, ni français sous titrage.Même si je parle un peu anglais, c'est pas assez pour tout comprendre, alors je n'ai pas regardé le DVD. Achat dans le vide !!!!

Ofertan la copia de Reino Unido y envían la americana, no coincide ni los idiomas, ni lo más importante, la zona de DVD.

Absolutely brilliant. Fans of Anthony Bourdain will recognise many of the autobiographical anecdotes that appear in his books and even the hero has the same name as the main character in some of his novels. Transferred to a sitcom series it works very well. There are a couple of outstanding episodes among a series that is consistently funny, well acted with great scripts that convey the mayhem of a professional kitchen and the restaurant business within the boundaries of good taste and the political correctness that is the scourge of the modern world. This is a must for Anthony Bourdain fans and a sound investment that will guarantee amusing watching for others. Probably the best comedy series based around the restaurant business, albeit American, I have seen.

A hidden gem! I can't believe this series only lasted one season, my first copy was stolen so after a few years I had to order another one. Just as funny the second time around.