La Galleria 33 Kitchen Nightmares Update – Still Open in 2023?

Episode Recap

La Galleria 33 was a Boston, Massachusetts restaurant featured on season 6 of Kitchen Nightmares.

Though the La Galleria 33 Kitchen Nightmares episode aired in October and November 2012, the actual visit from Gordon Ramsay happened earlier in the year in May 2012.

It was a two-part episode that spanned Kitchen Nightmares Season 6 Episode 1 and Episode 2.

In this episode of Kitchen Nightmares, Chef Gordon Ramsay takes us to family-owned, Italian restaurant, La Galleria 33.

It’s located in the North end of Boston, Massachusetts, where sisters Rita and Lisa have been running the show since they opened their doors in 2006.

That means the restaurant has been up and running for around six years at the time of the Kitchen Nightmares La Galleria 33 episode.

Gordon Ramsay quickly learns that the staff thinks Lisa and Rita are unprofessional, with Rita smoking too much and Lisa drinking in front of the customers.

However, Gordon learns from the sisters that they think the staff is the main issue as they have lost their passion for the restaurant.

Lisa and Rita claim to have tried everything to save the business, from lowering menu prices, changing the menu, and redecorating, but so far, nothing has worked and the restaurant is still struggling.

Gordon sits down to order food: seafood ravioli, gnocchi, meatballs, veal, and chicken marsala.

To Gordon’s disgust, the meatballs are bland and rubbery; the veal is gnarly, bland, overcooked and salty inside; the seafood ravioli is frozen and disgusting; and the chicken marsala is too sweet and bland.

Chef Ramsay then asks for a dessert menu, only to learn that the restaurant offers one option: tiramisu, which they are currently out of.

Gordon then meets the head chef, Doug, who not only hates Italian food, but he hates preparing it as well.

Chef Ramsay has Doug walk him through the kitchen during an evening rush on Saturday and is shocked to find that Doug has no stations set up in the kitchen.

How can you hope to deliver quality food on time if you aren’t organized inside the kitchen?

Doug then drops chicken on the floor and proceeds to place the dirty chicken in the pan to cook, causing an argument to break out between Gordon and Doug and resulting in Doug throwing the chicken away.

Complaints keep rolling in through the night with both Lisa and Rita shifting responsibility and arguing with irate customers.

Gordon inspects the walk-in and discovers rotten onions and dead mussels.

He then inspects the pantry and discovers frozen pasta and rotten food. Notice a bit of a trend?

The next day Gordon calls a staff meeting, the owners list off their complaints with the staff, resulting in Sara, their server of 2 years, walking out of the restaurant.

Gordon then tells the sisters that they too must change and Lisa agrees to not drink on the job and Rita promises to give up cigarettes.

With over 80 other Italian restaurants in Boston’s North end, Gordon knows that he needs something to make La Galleria 33 stand out from the rest.

Chef Ramsay then introduces a new Italian menu with homemade meatballs to help the La Galleria 33 Boston restaurant stand out.

Doug is hesitant at first, but Gordon hires Chef Michael to teach Doug how to cook the new menu items.

Gordon and his team then give the restaurant a modern makeover, making it brighter and much more pleasant for diners.

The night of relaunch, the restaurant experiences a computer malfunction, causing the staff to handwrite their tickets.

But once Doug and Mike receive tickets they get to work and food starts heading out the door for customers to enjoy.

Overall the night was a total success once they handled the technical issues.

So was the La Galleria 33 Kitchen Nightmares episode a success? Keep reading our update to learn what happened next and if this Boston restaurant is still open in 2023 and beyond.