The Restaurant (UK TV Series)

The Restaurant (UK TV Series)

The Restaurant was a British reality television series in which a group of couples competed for the chance to set up a restaurant financially backed and personally supported by French chef Raymond Blanc. The winning couple were given their own restaurant to run. For the winners of the first series the prize restaurant was in Oxfordshire, near to Blanc's own Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons. For the second series the prize restaurant was in Marlow, Buckinghamshire.

The first series aired on BBC Two in 2007 and a second series aired 2008. The first series also had its own spin-off, The Restaurant: You're Fried! (a play on The Apprentice: You're Fired!) which aired on BBC Three after the main programme. This did not return for either of the subsequent series. The third and final series was broadcast in the last months of 2009.

In the US, the show was retitled Last Restaurant Standing by BBC America. The first series aired in spring 2008, the second in spring 2009, and the third in winter 2010.

In July 2010 the BBC announced that the show has officially ended.