Restaurant In Our Living Room coming to Virgin1
Virgin1 unveils hot new series Restaurant In Our Living Room this September, a programme truly designed to tickle your tastebuds. This new concept in competitive dining sees culinary couples going head-to-head to create the ultimate dining experience in their own homes.
However, this is no intimate dinner party – this is dining out credit-crunch style. Couples will be opening their homes to complete strangers but will they decide to cater for 60 diners or just a table of 2? All contestants know is that they have a strict budget and just three days to transform their homes into a fully-functioning restaurant, and it’s really not as easy as it looks! This is dining out with a difference, guests only have to pay what they think the meal is worth and the winning couple is the one which takes the most on the night.
In each episode two pairs of food fanatics are pitted against each other to create the best Restaurant In Our Living Room. The series is inspired by real underground restaurants, or supper clubs, where disillusioned foodies, fed up with over-priced, over-hyped restaurants, are fighting the recession by opening their kitchens to paying customers. Even celebrities are tucking in, with Jo Wood creating her own home restaurant this summer serving customers organic fare straight from her Richmond garden.
It’s up to each couple what they serve, and the pressure of catering in their own home leads contestants to draw upon a range of innovative tactics to win. Viewers will see everything from outrageous themed nights and seven course gastronomy to the ruthlessly practical. From pet hairs in the wine and tongue-reading at an organic health themed night to a drive-thru diner with a chuck-wagon, a Bollywood evening and an Italian feast complete with opera singers, whatever is on the menu these couples will go to almost any lengths to get diners opening their wallets.
Everything is at stake as guests take everything from service, entertainment and restaurant design into account when paying their bill. Was the food more greasy spoon than Michelin star? Or the service closer to Fawlty Towers than Oxo Tower? It’s up to the diners to decide.
When service closes, the two couples meet to share their experiences from the heat of the kitchen. Once takings have been counted the winning restaurant and ultimate foodie prize are revealed – a meal anywhere in the world at one of the globe’s finest restaurants.
Do you fancy starting your own restaurant or enjoying a meal with a difference? Check out the restaurant map here.
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where do we sign up for the next series brilliant idea
Myself and my Husband, were one of the (Essex)couples on the show, and we loved every minute of it! It was such a great experience and we are looking to now open up our own restaurant! We are so glad we entered this programme!! Cant wait to watch it on tv!!!!
I can only hope that the other couples attempts are better than the one I went to last night in Harlesdon.Out in a cold garden without a single patio heater. The food was nothing out of the ordinary.
Hi, who is the right person at Virgin 1 to talk re licensing the show format in other countries?
Best regards
Oh god i attended one of these evenings with my pal, we were very shocked to find that our meal consisted of a pork roll for dinner and a bowl of fruit for desert, all eaten off the napkins we had on our laps in the back of a car…..YES thats right, we ate our meal in the back of a car, i have never felt sooo humiliated but it will be a laugh to see me and my friend on tv
Well me and a friend had a great laugh during the show and cant wait to see it!
we were at the same restaurant as Donna and everything she says is spot on. The experience was priceless, but our stomaches were still hungry after leaving. Great night though! thanks!
Hi, This shows sounds wicked and i can’t wait for it to be aired i went on come dine with me and that was great, how do i get on this, please contact me!!!!
Myself and my boyfried were also on this programme and we too had the most fantastic time. It was great to have restaurant quality food, but in someones living room. We met some really nice people as well and had such a laugh. Looking forward to seeing the episode, hopefully I didn’t make too much of a fool of myself!
I watched the very first episode of the series last night and thoroughly enjoyed it. Really entertaining.
Hi there, my husband and I love this show and would love to be contestants, what do we have to do?
i enjoy this programe but i have to state that your program is giving men, a bad name.
i have brought up five children onw my own, and in full time emploment. i have had alot of family to feed on many occasions,ie x-mas etc.
i wish to challenge on your program a single mother with her family against my family.
its the guys versus the girls
Did anybody notice, in the first episode of “Restaurant in our living room” that one of the couples had a “vegetarian” option of SALMON on their menu? Why wasn’t that part cut out? Why the crew didn’t tell them that SALMON is not a vegetarian option!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A vegetarian option of SALMON??????? I’m a bit shocked that nobody told them and that in a program of cooking, nobody knows that that is no vegetarian food!!!!
how do i apply to this show …I would love to do it ..
Erm Simona i looked at your commnt and some vegetarians DO eat fish
How can I sign up to be on the show? I absolutely love it and would love to be part of it…
Molly: Salmon is not a vegetarian option!!! The fact that some “vegetarians” eat salmon, does not mean that they are vegetarian or that the salmon is vegetarian food!!! If you consider yourself vegetarian, you shouldn’t eat any meat at all.
If you fancy being a contestant on the show, send me a paragraph about yourself, what your theme might be, and who you would compete with and someone will be in touch. Send to – glen@rainmedia.co.uk