In tonight’s second programme Gordon tackles a pub for the first time, getting to grips with The Fenwick Arms in rural Lancashire. The pub is run by landlord Brian who, after thirty years in the business and a quadruple heart-bypass, still puts in 120 hours a week and insists on laying down the law in the kitchen. Despite their best endeavours Brian and his partner Elaine are £250k in debt, losing £1500 a week and facing bankruptcy within three months unless there’s a drastic reversal in their fortunes.

This is a pub with ideas way above its station: the tables in the restaurant are set as if the Queen is about to arrive for lunch, and the complex menu boasts ostentatious dishes galore, all coated with Brian’s cloying signature sauces, or gravy only fit for filling potholes in the pub car park. In the cramped kitchen, stuffed full of Brian’s world-class collection of novelty dinner plates and appliances bought from eBay, the head chef is only allowed to dress the food. There’s an urgent need to get back to basics, galvanize the staff and produce great, simple food to bring the punters back before it’s too late. Can Gordon get Brian out of the kitchen for long enough to allow his Campaign for Real Gravy to turn things around? Or will a curmudgeonly Brian call time on Gordon’s attempts to save his business?

Multi Michelin-starred chef Gordon Ramsay is sharpening his knives – and his tongue – for another assault on some of the country’s scariest restaurant kitchens in a fourth season of Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares.

In the new series Ramsay unleashes his trademark mix of abrasive tell-it-like-it-is straight talking on four more restaurants in crisis. He coaxes and crow-bars their owners, chefs and kitchen brigades into adopting a radical new approach he’s confident will turn round the fortunes of each restaurant in just one week.

Also in this series Gordon goes back to two restaurants he helped in the past to find out whether they’ve been following his advice and are on the path to success, or have slipped back into their old ways and started sliding back towards bankruptcy.

The first episode we will see Gordon, for the first time ever on Kitchen Nightmares, take on a nightmare restaurant abroad. La Parra de Burriana is an ex-pat restaurant in Nerja on Spain’s Costa del Sol. Nestling among the cafes lining the seafront offering all-day English breakfast and chips, La Parra is the brainchild of twenty-six-year-old ex-nightclub manager Laurence.

Laurence’s menu boasts seventy-two options including his unforgettable signature dish, prawns in garlic with chocolate sauce. The Mediterranean menu has a special twist – no-one wants to eat it. The kebabs are raw, Alex has over-booked the place (and failed to clear up the dog mess that litters the dining room) and the punters that are still turning up face an interminable wait for their food. Unsurprisingly Laurence lost £22k last year but still resists Gordon’s attempts to introduce a simple menu that will bring customers back. Will Laurence survive the summer and Gordon’s efforts to get him to learn bullfighting? Can La Parra be saved, or will the sun set forever on Laurence’s Mediterranean dream?