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Season: 1
Year: 2005  |  2006

Season 1

"Kitchen Confidential" (2005): Season 1: Episode 1 -- Fallen hot-shot chef Jack Bourdain gets a second chance to make his mark in the culinary world when the owner of Nolita hires him as head chef, giving him 48 hours to assemble his motley crew of cooks.

Season 1, Episode 1: Exile on Main Street

Original Air Date—19 September 2005
Once the hottest chef in New York City, Jack Bourdain's bouts with womanizing, brawling, and drug and alcohol abuse have landed him in the kitchen of an embarrassing family eatery. Salvation comes when he's hired as the head chef of Nolita, a trendy new haute cuisine restaurant, and he must quickly assemble his staff of degenerate chefs, deal with a scheming head waitress, and impress New York's top food critic, who happens to be his ex-girlfriend.
"Kitchen Confidential" (2005): Season 1: Episode 2 -- Jack is exhausted from running Nolita; he orders Steven to stop stealing/dealing in the restaurant, and Steven gets angry; Mimi begins overseeing the waitstaff; Jack runs into an old flame, Audrey; and a group of bankers runs out on a check.

Season 1, Episode 2: Aftermath

Original Air Date—26 September 2005
With Nolita's becoming a smashing success, Jack must find a way to reconcile his promise to Primo to run a by-the-book kitchen with his need for Steven's less-than-legal tactics that keep the kitchen running smoothly. Meanwhile, newly-promoted floor captain Mimi's decision to stop pooling tips leads to a feud between waiters Cameron and Donna, and Jack gets a second chance with ex-girlfriend Audrey.
"Kitchen Confidential" (2005): Season 1: Episode 3 -- Jack's old culinary-school mentor asks Jack to kill him with unhealthy food; Jim insults a tough dishwasher who won't stop harassing him; and a hot dog vendor sets up shop outside Nolita.

Season 1, Episode 3: Dinner Date with Death

Original Air Date—3 October 2005
Jack's intimidating cooking instructor announces that, because he is suffering from heart disease, he is going to eat at Nolita's every night until he dies, prompting the kitchen staff to go to great lengths to concoct potentially fatal entrées, while Jack is conflicted over his food killing somebody. Meanwhile, a hot dog vendor sets up shop on the sidewalk outside the restaurant to cash in on Nolita's overflow crowds.
"Kitchen Confidential" (2005): Season 1: Episode 4 -- When another chef steals a recipe from Jack, war erupts between their two restaurants; Mimi finds herself sleeping with the enemy, and Jim becomes a casualty.

Season 1, Episode 4: French Fight

Original Air Date—5 December 2005
Michel an arrogant, womanizing French chef steals from Jack's menu and seduces Mimi, his head waitress, sparking a brutal feud between Nolita and a rival French bistro.
"Kitchen Confidential" (2005): Season 1: Episode 5 -- Pino orders Jack to spend time in the dining room schmoozing with customers; Jack hires an old cooking school friend to cover for him in the kitchen, but gets jealous when she does well; and Seth and Teddy bet over whose specialty is more popular.

Season 1, Episode 5: You Lose, I Win

Original Air Date—12 December 2005
After an article on page Six claims that Jack snubbed a famous actress at Nolita, Jack's boss realizes that part of the success of the restaurant includes the chef spending time with Nolita's patrons. Not wanting to leave a hole in his very busy kitchen, Jack hires a female chef he knows and trusts. At first, the boys resent a woman in their midst, but Becky quickly wins the crew over - and the more Becky fits in, the less space there is for Jack.
"Kitchen Confidential" (2005): Season 1: Episode 6 -- When the rabbit meat Jack ordered is delivered in the form of live rabbits, no one wants to kill them; Jack dates a vegan patron he meets at Nolita, and hooks the woman on meat.

Season 1, Episode 6: Rabbit Test

Original Air Date—19 December 2005
Shameless flirts Steven and Becky bring passion to the job- by rivaling in sizzling seduction, showing skin on pictures and making virgin Jim blush and bulge. Jack hates vegetarians as befits a chef, but sets that aside for carnal contact with Julia, who ends up getting seduced by more meat then his manly sex-machine. Jim fails to refuse signing for a delivery of rabbits- they're live bunnies, and putting them on the chopping-block is beyond the macho men or more then their relationships may be worth.
"Kitchen Confidential" (2005): Season 1: Episode 7 -- Becky asks Jack to start serving brunch at Nolita and to let her run it; smitten Jack can't say no, though he wants to; the staff is furious, especially when they find out that Jack and Becky are having sex; and Mimi wants to move in with Becky.

Season 1, Episode 7: Let's Do Brunch

Original Air Date—2006
Jack beaks his own 'no-sex-with-colleagues' rule with Becky, who convinces him (in bed) to put her in charge of a commercially attractive, gastronomically inferior novelty: brunch. The staff finds the experience backbreaking and murder on their private lives, Seth discovering how Becky manipulated his friend. Meanwhile next-door chocolates specialist Albert got the blame, and so Steven bombards his car with eggs, causing enough harm to accidentally run over pastry chef Seth.
"Kitchen Confidential" (2005): Season 1: Episode 8 -- When Jack takes credit for Teddy's scrumptious fish dish, Teddy gets angry and quits; Jack hires a replacement, and Teddy gets a new job; but things at Nolita go wrong without Teddy there, and the staff schemes to bring him back.

Season 1, Episode 8: Teddy Takes Off

Original Air Date—2006
Teddy quits when Jack gets credit for one of his recipes in a national magazine, prompting Jack to replace him with Chet, new "fish guy" who annoys Steven and Seth. While they torture Chet in an attempt to get him to quit, Jack realizes he can't reproduce the now-famous fish dish without Teddy, right when it's the only thing all of Nolita's customers want to order.
"Kitchen Confidential" (2005): Season 1: Episode 9 -- With Nolita doing well, Jack is convinced that his bad luck is behind him for good; but when the restaurant is robbed, and business drops off completely, Jack believes he jinxed his good luck by reveling in it; and Seth makes a fortune betting on horses.

Season 1, Episode 9: The Robbery

Original Air Date—2006
After a gang of masked robbers gets restaurant Nolita undeserved bad publicity, suddenly all bookings are canceled. Seth is on a roll gambling on the horses, but can his luck last and his bookie pay off? After Jim happened to save Teddy's life, he promises Jim everything, even what he meant to exclude: teaching him to cook blowfish, illegal in the US. Jack calls a critic guaranteed to give him a good review after a free meal and some horny slapping of his backside. The restaurant tries a 'models night', but even that has a catch. Jack finds himself on the pavement next to a hot dog-vendor.
"Kitchen Confidential" (2005): Season 1: Episode 10 -- Jack sleeps with a girl he meets at Nolita, only to learn that she ranks all the chefs she's had sex with, and posts it on a website.

Season 1, Episode 10: Praise Be Praise

Original Air Date—2006
Jack gets frustrated when a foxy food critic has sex with him and then writes a mean review about him. So he takes his frustration out on the whole Nolita staff, especially poor Jim: the more he tries to please everyone the more hassle he gets. At last Jack gathers the courage to go over and demand 'seconds' with the critic, and convinces her, at least between the sheets.
"Kitchen Confidential" (2005): Season 1: Episode 11 -- Jack has sex with Gia, the woman living in the apartment over Nolita, only to discover she's Pino's mistress; Pino throws a party at Nolita for his wife and Gia shows up threatening to tell all.

Season 1, Episode 11: An Affair to Remember

Original Air Date—12 May 2006
Jack sleeps with Pino's mistress who lives above the restaurant. Everything then goes awry when Pino throws his wife a party and his mistress arrives threatening to tell all.
"Kitchen Confidential" (2005): Season 1: Episode 12 -- When Mimi inherits Nolita, Jack assumes he'll be able to walk all over her and run the restaurant his way, but Mimi asserts herself and tries to win over the staff.

Season 1, Episode 12: Power Play

Original Air Date—2006
Mimi is the new owner of Nolita, and Jack goes through a power-struggle with her for control of the restaurant. Also, Jim deals with Tanya's kiss, and trying to keep it secret from Seth who has a history of crazy jealousy.
"Kitchen Confidential" (2005): Season 1: Episode 13 -- Nolita is a finalist for the prestigious James Beard Award, which Mimi and Jack are determined to win; then Becky reappears in Jack's life, and he learns that her restaurant is up for the same award; and Seth finds out that Jim is involved with Tanya.

Season 1, Episode 13: And the Award Goes to...

Original Air Date—23 January 2006
Nolita has been nominated for New York's culinary Epicure prize, for which Steven finds an exclusive pre-season Portuguese eel. Jim is distracted because he's now Tanya's lover. Jack allows himself to get distracted by sex with Becky, before he learns she's now the chef in the Pino's restaurant, an Epicure final competitor. The Latino busboys seeing the Holy Virgin in a lobster proves a mixed blessing.

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