La Galleria 33 is an Italian family restaurant opened in 2006 by sisters Rita and Lisa. The sisters were looking to draw on the success of their father’s successful restaurant called L’Osteria. They opened the La Galleria 33 just under a hundred feet away from their father’s restaurant and expected immediate success.

Though La Galleria 33 was initially successful after Kitchen Nightmares, it eventually closed in November 2018. We’re not sure why as the owners didn’t post any public messages, but there were a couple of one star Yelp reviews that suggest there were some issues.

In October 2012 Gordon Ramsay and Kitchen Nightmares visited La Galleria 33 in Boston’s North End district. The Italian restaurant was owned by two sisters with plenty of experience of the restaurant industry, but they were losing money and didn’t know why. Older sister Rita smoked too much, and Lisa was always drinking, even in front of customers.

La Galleria 33 was a Boston, Massachusetts restaurant featured on season 6 of Kitchen Nightmares. The episode was filmed in May 2012 and aired as a two-part episode in October and November 2012.

Where is La Galleria 33?

In this Kitchen Nightmares episode, Chef Gordon Ramsay visits La Galleria 33 in the North end of Boston, Massachusetts. La Galleria 33 is an Italian family restaurant opened in 2006 by sisters Rita and Lisa. The sisters were looking to draw on the success of their father’s successful restaurant called L’Osteria.

La Galleria Part 2. Lisa comes back into the restaurant but goes straight up to the bar for a drink. Gordon call s her aside and tells her he feels the pain and wants to help but she has to step up. She bursts into tears as the night was humiliating and overwhelming for her.

Rita smokes too much and Lisa drinks in front of the customers. Rita believes one of the problem the restaurant is facing is the staff and claims they are beginning to lose their passion for the business. They claim to have tried everything to try and increase business.

Gordon goes into the kitchen to see how the mussels are stored and finds a bowl of dirty, open and dead mussels in the fridge. Gordon decides it is time to inspect the walk in, he discovers rotten onions, dead mussels and orders them to be thrown away.

Where was La Galleria before Kitchen Nightmares?

La Galleria Before Kitchen Nightmares. In October 2012 Gordon Ramsay and Kitchen Nightmares visited La Galleria 33 in Boston’s North End district. The Italian restaurant was owned by two sisters with plenty of experience of the restaurant industry, but they were losing money and didn’t know why. Older sister Rita smoked too much, …

He learns that Lisa likes to drink wine during business hours, and also that …

She’s hitting the wine but Gordon speaks to her, explaining that he feels her pain, but things are out of control and have to be fixed. He holds a staff meeting where Rita lays the new regime on the line.

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The final stage in the relaunching of the restaurant is an overnight makeover, with the mismatched walls and dreary décor replaced with a fresh modern look, complete with modern lighting and a far lighter, more contemporary feel. All of the staff love the new working environment, and even Doug manages to crack a smile for the first time. Lisa and Rita finally begin to see things in a far more positive light and everyone is looking forward to the relaunch of La Galleria later that night.

Later that night Gordon inspects the storeroom and discovers a horde of rotten onions, dirty mussels hiding in fridges and a pile of month-old frozen cannelloni. He confronts Lisa and Rita about the generally disorganized state of the stores, but they’re both in denial. Lisa, in particular, can’t cope with Gordon’s ranting and leaves the restaurant announcing she’s sick of Gordon, but he chases her outside and tells her if she goes, he goes too. Lisa insists on leaving and part one ends with both of them leaving the restaurant in separate directions.

The success rate of businesses featured on the show stands at just 25%, with 79 out of 105 restaurants being closed to date, but La Galleria is I’m happy to report one of the exceptions, and it’s doing more than just surviving, it’s actually managed to turn a nightmare into a fairly pleasant experience for most of its customers.

Doug agrees to try harder and Gordon then brings in Mike, a speciality Italian chef who will stay at La Galleria for a month to help Doug learn better presentation skills, and also to teach him how to make Gordon’s new menu items, a range of classic Italian dishes served in small portions, something that none of the competing restaurants in the area are doing.

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