What happened to the Seascape Inn after Kitchen Nightmares?

In this video I take a look into the fate of the Seascape Inn, a restaurant featured on Kitchen Nightmares. In the episode the restaurant had some serious problems and serious debt, so let's find out if they were able to take Gordon's advice and stay in business, or if they ultimately closed down due the insurmountable hurdles they faced.

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[rohitmenon]

Looking back at this, I feel so bad for Peter. Man lost his dad and even his own mom is blaming him for the restaurant failing. At least he was willing to change unlike a lot of owners on the show.

[RThyrring]

Doug once tried to get a racoon to taste his lunch, but the racoon answered: “I know what trash tastes like.”

[JoshF]

38 years of experience apparently, and in the space of a few hours Doug ensured that no respectable restaurant will employ him ever again

[reneebrady]

I used to go to the Seascape when I was younger, as a matter of fact, I had my 16th birthday there. It used to be great back in the day, somewhere to get dressed up for. I went back years later and, yep, there was a horrible raw sewage smell. Never went back and am saddened to see it gone for good.

[iielysiumx]

Imagine saying “Gordon being here is a slap in the face” while you’re microwaving frozen food in the back

[ericab]

Oh thank god. I call Seascape my “emotional support episode of Kitchen Nightmares”. So much going on from Peter’s poor self esteem (that Gordon helps him work out via boxing) to Doug excusing moldy pesto to the wonderful phrase “he just choked on ya motha’s cookie”. Top tier 2000s camp, 10/10

[kingofravens]

Fun fact:

The Town of Islip is named for a town in Northamptonshire, England, where Matthias Nicoll, the father of the patentee of eastern Islip William Nicoll was born.

[margarethmichelina]

I feel bad for Peter in this episode.
-His late father always berated him
-His mother always shouted at him and mostly angry at him. What kind of mother always tell him "Shut the fuck up" to their kids?
-The Head chef and the sous chef are lazy and don't care

He just needs a hug and support

[orionisx]

This unlocked a childhood memory. Grew up around the area and remember something about a "smelly fish restaurant " my family walked out of due to the smell alone... wonder if that's the same one lmao

[peterbellisario]

I worked there for a couple of months back in 2000. In my 40 years culinary career, this place was the absolute worst. At the time I was there, the town was repaving the road, and the owners said it was the constructions fault they had no business. That is where those construction signs at the door came from. From my 1st day, that sewage smell was on my body, clothes and car.

[ItsAaronsaccount]

Peter is like one of the six owners who didn't act in denial.

[waydeadu]

Peter has the best attitude on KN by a landslide. his entire perception was literally, "wow, THE Gordon Ramsey is going to talk sh*t about my food. it's an honor." more people need to have this attitude, so many owners just can't get over themselves to see how insane this opportunity is.

[skippythealien]

I remember watching these early episodes of Kitchen Nightmares like it was yesterday. Hard to believe that all of this took place like 16-17 years ago

[Wingsaber]

Mad respect to you for digging so deep into the history of the Seascape to the point of looking at articles from the last freaking century 😅

[rebeccabaggins]

Hey there!! I actually am a local to Islip and I have lived on Long Island my whole life thus far (unfortunately kinda lol) and live around 45 min from the location of this restaurant funnily enough. I actually also have eaten at the new restaurant that opened where Peter's (from the very first episode of the show) was located before closure back around the end of 2020 - it was a pretty good place but nothing to indicate Gordon ever stepped foot there sadly.

Regarding how you mention there is little to no information or reviews regarding this restaurant online, shockingly enough when you said that, it made sense to me. It didn't shock me to hear they didn't ever have anywhere to leave reviews - it's hard to explain but even to this day there are many restaurants (and other establishments as well) that have a very minimal, if any at all, digital footprint near where I am. It isn't uncommon for me to look up a restaurant, for example, and be met with not much more than a phone number and other basic info even currently, more or less at the minimum the early to late 2000's. I would be curious as well, though, to see what reviews would have been - I don't know anyone personally who has ever eaten there before they closed sadly.

Since I live where I do it's funny to see some episodes of KN and know the exact area where he is lol. I was too young to have appreciated it back when they were filming which makes me kinda sad (I love Gordon tons lol), but its cool now to see still. I haven't been to any other locations of restaurants near me (since they're closed now obviously). I actually was about to say that I have plans to visit Mama Maria's for the hell of it sometime soon, but was greeted by a search revealing a closure just this past month in February 2023. Anyway hopefully anything I have mentioned has been interesting at least to some extent, lol thanks for reading :-)

[sailormoon]

Apparently head chef Doug died of starvation not long after this episode hired as he tasted all the food in the world.

[paulblart]

Babe wake up, new MermaidGrove video just dropped.

[chupitrooper]

Gordon was BENEVOLENT to Doug regarding his sanitation and practices. Either the Seascape clientele has Fort Knox immune systems or Doug was immediately swarmed by OSHA members upon stepping off set a la To Catch a Predator.

Not to mention, class act on his behalf having his eyes and hands preoccupied whilst half-heartedly fessing up for his oversights.

[leonardobonino]

I remember going to this restaurant about 20 years ago before the episode aired. Back then the food was pretty good and the service was excellent. I didn’t even know there an episode of this restaurant.

[DesGardius-megf]

The fact that the head chef actually ate a sour ham illustrates how much lack of care he has for the health of the customers, or himself.