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Gordon Ramsay’s ‘Kitchen Nightmares’ featured several Massachusetts restaurants.Davide, La Galleria 33, and Barefoot Bob’s Beach Grill, all featured on the show, have since closed.The Olde Hitching Post Restaurant, also featured, remains open under different ownership.New restaurants now operate in the locations of the closed establishments.
Gordon Ramsay cannot stand poorly-run restaurants.
After over 20 years on television, the celebrity chef and television host is no stranger to coming into a restaurant or hotel and working with difficult restaurant owners to make their failing businesses a success.
In 2025, Ramsay is tackling bad restaurants from behind the cameras on “Secret Service,” where he surveys and critiques poor practices through hidden cameras and secret diners. His most famous culinary makeover show, “Kitchen Nightmares” saw eight seasons of arguments, tears, and, occasionally, triumph.
While watching this classic of reality television, one might wonder how many Massachusetts restaurants have been on the show and where do they stand now.
Here is a look at some local restaurants that have been on “Kitchen Nightmares” and where they at today.
Davide, Boston (CLOSED)
Where: 326 Commercial St., Boston
About: Located in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Davide was an Italian restaurant that Ramsay came to in a 2011 episode of “Kitchen Nightmare.” The episode saw the Scottish chef head into an emotional minefield with a pair of co-owning brothers, one of whom previously embezzled from the restaurant.
What happened: Davide closed in 2014, according to a Boston Restaurant Talk report. In 2025, a new Italian restaurant called The Red Fox has emerged where Davide once was. It has 4.1 stars on Google with 158 reviews. The Red Fox is located at 326 Commercial St. in Boston.
La Galleria 33, Boston (CLOSED)
Where: 125 Salem St., Boston
About: Like Davide, La Galleria 33 was an Italian restaurant in Boston’s North End neighborhood. Ramsay contended with two stressed-out sisters who owned the business. Add a stubborn head chef and disaffected waitstaff, you have a recipe for a spicy two-parter of “Kitchen Nightmares” that aired in 2012.
What happened: La Galleria closed in 2018, according to NBC 10 Boston reporting. The Italian restaurant known as Libertine now stands in its place, located at 125 Salem St. in Boston.
Barefoot Bob’s Beach Grill, Hull (CLOSED)
Where: 276 Nantasket Ave., Hull
About: Ramsay visted this South Shore seafood restaurant, Barefoot Bob’s Beach Grill, which had allegedly run out of money. The owners were a married couple of an over-worked chef at the back of the house and a seemingly apathetic and terminally absent co-owner at the front of the house. Ramsay also discovered abysmal food hygiene in the restaurant’s fridge during the 2012 episode.
What happened: NBC Boston reported the restaurant’s closure in 2017. As of 2025, a casual seafood joint called Tipsy Tuna resides at 276 Nantasket Ave. in Hull.
Olde Hitching Post Restaurant, Hanson
Where: 48 Spring St. in Hanson
About: In a 2013 episode, Ramsay came to Hanson’s Olde Hitching Post, a restaurant serving homestyle American food with some Greek dishes, to save the struggling business.
What happened: The Olde Hitching Post is still open. But the owners shown on the show are not the current owners. Andrea Garnavos and her husband bought the Olde Hitching Post one year after the episode aired. Then they sold the place in 2022, according to a Whitman-Hanson Express report. So the Olde Hitching Post Restaurant is still open, just under different ownership.
Rin Velasco is a trending reporter. She can be reached at rvelasco@gannett.com.
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