What Happened to Mill Street Bistro? (And an Interview with someone who met Joe Nagy after the show) 

Doesn't care to mention where in Europe, with which chefs or which restaurants or even if he worked in restaurants there. Eh, seems legit.

Another persons opinion don’t make it the truth

@@octaviusroosevelt7355 saying "trained in europe" is like saying "trained in the us" lol, like east coast? west coast? texas?

he trained at Macdonalds Europe

He definitely molded his character and his speech to the different types of people he met. You could see that he wasn't rude or aggressive with owners who clearly had no clue but weren't arrogant, and those who displayed remorse and felt guilt for ruining their business into the ground. Take Rishi from Prohibition Grill and Akira from Sushi Ko for example. Rishi was as clueless as they come but she didn't mistreat her staff so the only thing Gordon reprimander her for was getting on a whim into a business she knew nothing about and not firing her chef who was clearly taking advantage of her, and he didn't reprimand Akira because he was obviously desperate, remorseful and showed signs of depression. But then you have Sebastian and also Alan and Gen from Burger Kitchen. They were both so far up their asses and so arrogant and abusive to their staff and/or family, that they deserved Gordon's critique of both their business way and shitty character. Same with the owners of Zeke's. Gordon isn't a tyrant, he just doesn't tolerate bullshit but also gives credit where it is due.

@@floraflowers Amy/Sammy, Pete from Yanni's, Grace from Luigi's D'Italia, Keith from Cafe Tavolini, Adele from Flamangos, and Moe from Oceana also belong in the abusive category.

Was honestly surprised Gordon got out of that alife 😂

The scene where Gordon asks the staff if they had a problem serving a 10 dollar burger, is incredible. Joe gets caught in a lie, after saying his staff has a problem serving burgers. After the staff looks confused & reassures they never claimed to be against serving burgers, Gordon turns to Joe, saying “whenever I smell bullshit, I’ll turn to you.” Joe, looking absolutely upset, asks “can I interject something?” Gordon simply replies “I’m busy.” So fucking good.

It was just such a beautiful moment

@@kittehsoup a lot of the american shows , aside the annoying editing.... so many of them makes you wish the program would have hade one little twist.. that if gordon smelled the kind of bs where its not the staff..its not the location..but the sole reason a place not is turning even ,is the 'owner'...so the show could arrange some sort of 'loan' without any of the borderline extortion racket lvls of interest many banks wants for the staff to each take on equal part of said loan and just buy out the place from idiotic , B-holes or delusional owners run it good and once the place payed back the loan decide if any of said staff wants to be 'bought out' using the place proffit but stay on as staff or if all just wants to keep running it as equal partners etc.... i mean so many of the places as audience you want gordon to help it ,but not for the owners sake ..only for the staff sake :/

@@Amoth_oth_ras_shash never even thought about it like that from this angle, but I absolutely agree!

meaning: I read and tried to follow some cookbooks.

Yeah man. Old school Europeans? He means Americans?

Sounds like a dog whistle for 3rd reich members.

‘That took a liking to me’ 🤣

@@DivusMagus Yes, it is a know fact membership in the NSDAP required one to know how to cook a large variety of traditional European dishes.

Honestly it happens so many times in the food service. Only difference most of the boss don't give a shit and won't stop yelling with customers walking in lol. Glad I'm out

It's not just in the food industry. I worked in retail where they would have team meetings in the back and management would talk badly at us saying we are responsible for low sales when really, we arent' the ones making prices or doing marketing, we just clean the shelves lol. And they always talk about how the customers are just there to fill a quota but then want to put a smile on their faces in front of customers and say they are part of the family. lol It's all fake.

@@dr6770 I hope you're not still there

@@g29000 No I did retail for about 4-5 years while I went to college. Right now I'm working from home as a software engineer making 7 times what I was making at working at Target lol I knew from the start that was just a temp job.

@@dr6770 bueno

“I NEVER FUCKING SAID THAT!” {clip of him literally saying that}

I can only guess that what he actually meant is that it wasn't formal training like an apprenticeship?

@@Christopher-md7tf if anyone else said that I’d assume that it’s an innocent but awkward phrasing just like that. But my man Joe avoided honesty and accountability like a vampire avoids sunlight lol.

his name is of hungarian origins, so maybe it means he saw his papa cook an egg?

@@andreanovaki8836 great reference lmao. apparently there’s no Hungarian phrase for “soft boiled egg” if his ancestry is reflected in his cooking though.

that statement defies the laws of physics lol

​@@beerguy177 On the zekes episode, one of the waitresses said fresh frozen and then said it was oxymoronic which I found amusing. she knew it was an oxymoron but still said it

He sure was delusional, but let's not pretend he out-delusioned Amy's Baking Company. That was a real nightmare.

@@TheDinis553 Part of me wants to see a "What Happened to..." episode on ABC. Just to see how quickly he loses his faith in humanity.

He ain't no amy

Count Amy, Sebastian, Alan and Gen from Burger Kitchen, Darryl and Ellen Cortello from Zeke's and "Dr. Morris" from Kingston Cafe. Dr. Morris basically said the infamous quote "I'm not in denial because... I'm not in denial"

@@floraflowers were Alan and jen the old couple who took their sons money without asking? They are the worst!

Agreed, unless he has some massive intensive farming facility somewhere. And you know the carrots are the only thing he's supplying bc of how defensive he got over a useless garnish lol. "they go to the white house." my ass.

Also, if he were to be using all this stuff from his own personal farm, wouldn't he need documents showing that they're all disease free or something?

Given the size of his clientele it's more than enough to supply his old bistro.

I was going to say this. Growing up, my dad had a farm probably 3x the size of his with more chickens, cows, and vegetables and that all went to feeding their family so there’s no way a “farm” that size could feed a restaurant, even one as small as that

@@anothermereapostleofjimpickens yeah, it's too small. This guy's is just so full of himself thinking he knows better than the professional chef Gordon Ramsay himself

Ngl, I've watched that episode at least 3 times 😹

@@AwkwardBlackGal613 only three times? 😅

WAKE UP!!! No YOU wake up!!!!

@@FeechLaMannas COME HERE AND HELP ME INSTEAD OF RUNNING YOUR JAW!

Agreed. One of my faves. It was also one of the few episodes that was TWO parts. The footage was that good they couldn't cut it down anymore lol

I live in Norwalk as well. This was a huge thing back then was even in the reflector. I saw Joe out and about several times. Mostly at IGA for some reason. He seemed like a true duck to me. As far as I know the building is still empty. I haven’t been that way in a long time though.

@@deborahchapman8896 There actually is another restaurant there now! It's a sports bar and grill. Pretty good little place and has some pretty good food as well!

I love this thread and you people for your insights

Dude that's awesome

@@metalheadderick so?

Yeah the food may taste bad but that’s a step above some other restaurants in this show that could literally poison you

His kitchen wasn't even that great. His freezers were full non-labeled, freezer burned and expired food.

@@FortunaFortesJuvat plus according to the woman who used to work there his meat was left to soak in blood

It’s true there wasn’t rodents or bugs or mold like it wasn’t great but it wasn’t something that made me want to puke

Gordon has great come backs. 😂

It's a distinct possibility that Joe Nagy knows a helluva lot about fucking elk. He seems twisted enough for it.

@@snooganslestat2030 "What's the difference between you and me?" "I can cook, Joe" is also a great comeback

Joe Mama needs to go somewhere else. Perhaps in outer space. Without a space suit.

@@alceratops6853 I do believe this is an among us reference

"He didn't kick me out of my kitchen. I walked out." Of course you walked. Are you supposed to fly out?

And Gordon threw the quesadilla at him

Followed immediately by a flashback of him being kicked out.

Yeah,no one talks about Sebastian’s but he was one of the most delusional people on the show

You forgot about Amy

@@Finallybianca Amy's in a category of her own.

@@mushrooms5601 bUt MuH cOnCePt MeNu.

@@Vic_Chaos_ sebastians around the world!

yeah lol I think its in the Amy's Baking Company episode where the editors insert flashbacks to every time the owners lie or contradict themselves

​@@rishisaaptacha I went homeless for a month after walking out of an abusive restaurant owner. I didn't need a luxury to lean on in order to make that decision. I got out and found something better. And my life is better for it. As OP said, don't stay in with an abusive owner.

I walked out on my second day at subway because the guy that was supposed to be training me kept rolling his eyes and acting exasperated that I had the nerve to ask for help. 🙄 I’m still not sorry I left him there alone. Can’t treat people like garbage and expect them to just take it.

He was taught by vampires. They don't remember what humans eat.

Ya retired or ran his rubdown to the ground what ever you want to say .. as a actual chef who has worked under an italian master chef I see how he could have retired or went out of business.. what ever tho dude is a fake wanna be chef who knows nothing about the business.. he should have stayed working for corporations instead of on his own obviously he can not run a business

@@ptravers9077 idk man it takes a true Iron Chef to slap a bland overcooked chunk of elk on a plate. I'd give that guy a Michelin star ⭐ lol

@@ptravers9077 you sound hella pressed my guy

@@jaquandrejones hella pressed because I think this guy is a joke .. ok bud u sound hella dumb for even thinking there was more than there is ..it doesn't take a genius to run a kitchen the right way nor make food it take a dedicated person I imagine that's something you dont know about .. it's cool tho

@@ptravers9077 you're gonna throw around calling someone else dumb when you use "..." in place of periods and commas because you know nothing about grammar? Bad look my guy. You might be able to cook, but I can read and write.

Which proves the Points of the sayings "There is a Place for everyone in this World to be succesful and satisfied, even for the worst Asshole" and "You can be an Asshole as much as you like as long as you do not bother others by beeing one".

Well. People can change after all so he could change perhaps but its unlikely lol

He really doesn’t deserve such a good ending, surprised he didn’t end up bankrupt

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@@astk5214 People like that rarely change, and why does a jerk who can’t learn deserve a happy outcome? But alright since you wanna compare crimes, he’s a saint

Quite the fine print loophole

Frost bitten meaynis not like fresh elk

Exactly.

just this. narcissists know how to fake being a nice person, it's why so many people disbelieve their victims when they talk about the abuse.

He always came across as a covert narcissist to me.

Tommy and Amy and Jenn (the 2 female servers) clearly acted like decent people

I live there this dude talks out of his Anus people are nice only Joe is a pos

I bet you ALL of them are boomers.

@@newyorkfan16 Uh, yeah? He already said "everyone over 40"

@@cashnelson2306 Hey jackass no need to sound patronizing. I know what the fuck he said.

hehehe

Hey, that hotel redeemed itself eventually. Joe never did.

It’s used by the Four Seasons Landscaping company.

Omg this comment is so iconic, I was literally thinking the same thing 😂

@@SharkyMcSnarkface yeah, it’s now a fairly well regarded dog friendly hotel

I mean if you straight up asked gordon if he knows he'll definitely be confused cause of how many Joe's he's come across with his whole life but he'll definitely know who Joe Nagy is considering he's probably the most arrogant owner other than Amy that he's encountered in the whole kitchen nightmares series

Might be compensating for something

​​@@amberhawksongalso he's got 2 small heads of lettuce on his micro carrot

They're average size I swear

Someone needs to tell him chef boyardee doesn't count.

Amy's Baking Company is a nice idea but honestly it's been covered so much Including what happened after they closed that honestly itd be hard to say what this channel could say on that dumpster fire

Yes Europe is so vague.. every country is different

@@Thomasmemoryscentral recently amy was in the youtube comments arguing with people on kitchen nightmares videos so that’s fun

@@AATCgal Yeah she honestly has been for like 8 years now xP

I wish he’d stop being stuck I missed one because they keep taking him down!!!

same i’m obsessed

Same

You can shoot crack?

@@TheWholeEntireCake I hope

Well, or you include others in it. Like he does with the Mini-Carrots he also delivers to the White House and the "European Chefs".

@@Rabijeel uhm, I think you misunderstood him there. He said the same carrots are delivered to the White House, he did not say he delivers them there. He just uses the same stuff the big boys use.

after Gordon's visit it shut down

After that: what happened to Darth Vader and the Death Star

After wonka killed a bunch on kids and enslaved a tribe of dwarves he retired and passed the company onto a dirt poor child, Charlie is currently been serving 4 years out of a 80 year sentence, Mr wonka has not been found yet

there’s a hole in the roof

Closed, and rightfully so

He just doesn't wanna get sued tbh man, Joe seems like a total narcissist. When he was speaking to them calmly, he still couldn't shut up about himself. A true altruist would ask about the other person. Also, retiring at 55? Confirms my theory that he's fed on his parents' money tbh. That's why he's got such an attitude to himself, raised being told he was a special boy

a nice person can BE an arsehole in x moment or situation, trust a weeb to have no social graces

@@dairychoco5603 Bro you literally have an entire YT channel full of videos of you drifting in Skylines to Eurodance, don't throw stones in glass houses weeb

@@jackeldridge1319 if you think initial D, cowboy bebop, or dragonball z is weeb you might have brain damage sorry about that

@@dairychoco5603 The definition of weeaboo is somebody who is fascinated or obsessed with Japanese culture. Take the L you're in denial

yeah, stellan skaarsgard

@@tvTwo1 Skarsgård

And he's the father of Eric Northman from True Blood, Floki from Viking and Pennywise from IT

I guess he didn't have the Internet wherever he posted this video to RU-vid from.

Yup. He was also in Dune recently, as well as Good will hunting, Pirates of the carribean dead man's chest and At World's end, the MCU thor movies and Avengers, and king arthur.

Okay, so don't claim your food is "farm to table" and don't charge your customers rip off prices. Simple.

Or just buy from a local butcher.

Isn’t all food ‘farm to table’? McDonald’s has tables and the Big Mac started out on a cow on a farm

@@timsplanet2 Ironically not elk and buffalo, which are two of Joe's favorites. Good luck farming those aggressive herbivores lol.

Sadly true - but wrong as hell. It depends on the local Farms and Restaurants Buisness Model. Around my Place in Germany, Farms had changed from the taditional Farming towards independent ecological Farming and also Energy Production (no joke, They produce Energy and Gas for the whole Region). Also, they changed back to the "medival" method of selling on Markets and on their Farms directly - and the Stuff they do not get sold they sell to the Discounters around. Same goes for Meat - they kill a Cow and then sell it to different Buyers freshly. The Butcher has his own Shop and works with several Farms - you can even order your own Cow at his place and choose how it is raised (Yes, you can order a Wagyu-Style Calf, it just takes some Time, but you get it for around 5k Euros, Bull will cost more). Many Farms work on Demand and plant what customers order aside their normal routine. This all led to a constantly supply of local, fresh and "Bio"-Grade food (Pesticide Free etc.) and nearly no demand for canned or frozen Food. The Farmers finally make Money again and Big Corp is benefitting from it as well as even the Discounters suddenly have astonishingly good Veggie and Meat for a Price the Big Corps can't compete with. And, if I can manage to live by 150€ a Month without the Farmers around going bankrupt, eating daily fresh Salad, Vegetables and Meats in a Country whoose Farmers struggle to survive everywhere else even with govermental Funding, I think this should be possible in other Places as well - especially in the US and GB where this Model is more common than in Germany. Of course, I have to go to the Market and shop the Discounters around the evening Time every second or third Day, but hey - as a Buisness, there are othe roptions as well as "freezing Meat" is out of the option for a Restaurant - not only because it ruins the flavour/texture when done not properly, rather than , if done properly, it takes too much effort and Time and thus is impractical compared to regulary buying less Meat instead of buying all at once and just storing it Low-Temp. The second Thing is the Buisness Model of the Restaurants - many of them bundle their Orders even when not associated otherwise. They order from one Farm this Cow, then pay the Butcher and the Guy who delivers it to them. This goes from "daily fresh" to "one to three Times a Week", depending on the Size of the Restaurant. Of course, we have "Restaurants" as well that choose the "frozen Goods"-Policy (called "Imbissbude" aka "Snack-Truck"), but they are not expensive, they go for "1st serve Fast, 2nd seve Cheap 3rd serve Quality"; opposite to Restaurants going Quality first. Also, you have to take a look at what you serve - you can try and have "Steak" on the Menue as well as "Fish", but if you do not sell what goes along this, it will be expensive and impractical. You gotta take a look on how to use the leftovers from the cooking to your advantage - every big Star Restaurant does (even more as the ingredients are usually way more expensive). You Menue has to fit when buying it as well as it has to fit to the Customers demands - it's idiotic to try to sell something that is neither wanted by the customer nor the recources are provided around and you gotta import them expensively. Every frigging Housewife knows how to do this this - you put on the Table what you can afford and what can get. Doing otherwise will end up in A) yourself having no Money before end of Month or b) again, running out of money before end of Month. All you gotta do now - and that is the struggle and the Art - is to make thoose End meet with the demands of the "Customers", your Family. And we all know how loveley, frugal and uncritical Families are, right?

True dude

Rules for thee, but not for me.

The thing is. That's not an entirely bad mindset. Don't beat yourself up kver it but always look to improve your work and fix your mistakes. The problem is, when you dont take your own medicine.

Absolutely horrific person, he can't let that waitress have her moment because it gets in the way of his ego. He puts people down to prop himself up, those are the worst kind of humans on earth.

Or, Joe had no redeeming qualities. Seemed like a textbook narcissist who needed serious therapy

@@adamgreenhill110 hey he knows a lot about elk! 😂

( @@smolaether ) Elk's gonna have a bite, it's gonna have a chew, it's characteristic from it, it's never gonna change.

@@adamgreenhill110 the restaurant had potential to succeed, but with somebody like Joe in charge it was bound to fail

@@dtxspeaks268 The restaurant did. Joe didn't.

Good for you !!!!!!!

W

Can we stop diagnosing random Mfs we don’t know with narcissism? It’s embarrassing to be an armchair therapist. No doubt Joe has the potential to be diagnosed, but claiming he 100% is with no license is tacky. We gotta stop doing that You wouldn’t do that with any other mental illness, don’t do it with narcissism

I need a video about the hotel owned by the old woman that looked like a witch who shat on the floor

the ferrari hotel lol where the chef collapses. What an episode.

There was a follow up, they reverted back and the owner and the chef left.

Or the hotel owner who is so stubborn, even one of his kids won't let him meet his grandkid, has an Asian wife (I think the wife is from Phillipines) and doesn't want the kids to go around the hotel while in fact, they just have the new ice cream samples for their ice cream stands! And kids love ice cream!

Monticello Hotel was also wild. The super alcoholic guy, Phillip, who dated the old lady Ginger. Phillip was literally drunk and slurring the whole time during filming.

lol that's hilarious yet sad.

I just got out of the military and had worked in kitchens from 14-18 years old. I worked at a restaurant at a very popular summer tourist destination….I kid you not, my whole shift was 2 hour ticket times….I was paid 8$ an hour

1 place couldn't cost a restaurant 8grand in 1 day. If they could then the place isn't possibly making 8 grand in a day. I think you're over exaggerating by probably 8,000x! Also if the GM knew then the assistant manager wouldn't waste her time to call an employee knowing her Bosses boss knew you called out.

@@MidgetPunter If a restaurant pulls in an average of $17,000 every Friday and Saturday and averages $5,000 per day on the other days of the week then the company nets about 3 million per year. That's just enough to remain in business between 2015-2018 the years I worked at this specific location. My story isn't fabricated you just don't understand business and or math.

At the minimum wage jobs I worked at a long time ago, like pizza places and fast food, there was always ALWAYS an arrogant teenager who thought they knew more than anyone else, and always saying how they were going to be promoted to management any day. In reality they were lazy and irresponsible.

"I can cook Cyrillus" :DDD

Definitely did some Jew cooking in good ol Germany

Does that old school European's name start with A and end with dolf Hitler? 🤔

Ja

@@user-njyzcip actually it was an Eastern European guy who was harassing staff in liberty city but his restaurant went quiet

Maybe it's a landscaping company

Joe clearly doesn't know the different between seasons, seas and oceans

@@Nukie144 🤣

Its like knockoff Adidas with 4! stripes.

The five seasons: spring, summer, autumn, winter, and elk.

how's prison life treating you, marvin?

Tbf Rico from Down City made the same comment yet he actually cared his restaurant and was nice to the staff, Gordan and even his crazy business partner (Abby).

How about Abbey from Providence? That bitch was super delusional.

Joe's last name, looks like a Hungarian common last name. "Nagy" it litteraly means big.

@@ozsolt05 Because his ancestors must be immigrants. He's a bit hungarian at some point.

@@ozsolt05 probably compensating for something lol

More like Joe Nagging

@@ozsolt05 Like his ego. Lol

Stellan has a whole lotta kids, and they’re all at or over 6’4” (sans daughter, but she’s 5’10”!). Giant family by both definitions of the word lol

Isn't Bill also his son? Most known as Pennywise on the most recent IT

@@kami_narisama Yes, Bill is also Stellan’s son. The youngest I think.

He was also the Russian captain that was hunting Sean Connery in Hunt For Red October

Yes, he is the guy who NO one wants to interact with. Hope his employees went on to much better things...and ANYTHING would be a step up.

Lol everyone is pronouncing his surname wrong lol

And he still sucks.

Are you telling the truth how do you know that

The only things that didn't make the kitchen quiet were Joe's nagging and Gordon Ramsay.

Perfectly said. Its scary that most people are blind to this

I know it's wrong to think of "guilty by association" and i don't know this mystery person's relationship with Joe, but REALLY it tells a lot about you with the company you keep

@L Lawliet i can understand that but, personally im gonna say what's up about someone regardless of the chance of making an enemy.

@deltarious dude the redditor's statement is going out to hundreds of thousands of people on youtube. This isn't just some cool anecdote you're telling a few people at a party one time. I think that's why the redditor was being so diplomatic and neutral. He's prolly concerned about potential defamation or other shit, if his statement were to go viral. It's also likely that he didn't wanna over-judge Joe given that they literally had only two conversations. Granted Joe still comes across as a tool. Also the redditor gives you all the facts to conclude using your own judgement how douchey you feel Joe is.

🤣🤣

LOL

It was a Quesadilla not Elk

Good point.

Agreed. It feels strange to compare original Hell’s Kitchen/Kitchen Nightmares Gordon to modern Gordon. Didn’t shock me hearing that Joe had calmed down a tad as he’d gotten a bit older.