“Kitchen Nightmares” sets up shop in Clinton Hill

I got a tip that the Gordon Ramsay show Kitchen Nightmares – one of my favorites – is filming at Clinton Hill’s Mojito restaurant.  For those of you not familiar with the show, Gordon Ramsay – the much bleeped but brilliant chef/star of Hell’s Kitchen – descends upon troubled restaurants and attempts to turn them around.  Some of the restaurants just suffer from bad management or awkward menus.  But sometimes, they’re overrun with bugs or rodents, filled with rotting meat, or staffed by morons who drop food on the floor and put it back in the pan.  I have no idea which end of this spectrum Mojito falls on, but basically, if you’re doing well you’re not going to end up on this show.

I stopped by for a few minutes this afternoon to confirm that filming was indeed going on, and it was.  But I wasn’t able to see anything.

The production had most of their trucks and equipment set up inside and in front of Victor’s Garage, next to Mojito, thus minimizing the street space they needed.

Want to be on “Kitchen Nightmares”?

FIB reader Nathan sent me a link to a Myrtle Minutes post about the shoot, and it gives details on how to be a (paying) diner at Mojito this weekend during the shoot.  If anyone goes, I’d love a report (if that’s possible – I’m guessing they’ll make you sign something saying that you’ll stay quiet).

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Originally posted on Filming In Brooklyn

UPDATE: According to On Location Vacations, Lipstick Jungle is filming near Franklin and Kent in Williamsburg.  The NBC show was recently canceled, and this is reportedly the last episode being filmed.

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Here are Kelly Rutherford (Lily van der Woodsen) and Robert John Burke (Bart Bass).

You can see the rest of “Carrot’s” pictures here (today’s Gossip Girl pics start in the fourth row down).

Thanks Chris!

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McBrooklyn has some pictures of a shoot for a cookie company that took place in Cobble Hill last Wednesday.

And there was some misdirected rage at The Real World chronicled on NYShitty (according to the comments, the filming was actually for 50 Cent’s reality show).

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The Real World: Brooklyn was spotted working out again, this time at a Crunch Gym in Fort Greene.

It never ceases to amaze me how many people will read a post about something they claim they don’t care about, and then click on the post to leave a comment stating that they don’t care about it. Which is exactly what happened on Curbed on Friday.

It reminds me of that old quote from Yogi Berra: “Nobody goes there no more, it’s too crowded.”

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Commenter Nails The Real World Complainers [Filming In Brooklyn]

I make no claim to being the best parent in the world (in fact, I’m ignoring my kids right now to write this), but whenever I watch Supernanny I just want to scream at how long those parents have let their kids rule the house and get away with crap that I wouldn’t put up with for ten minutes. Ninety percent of their problems could have been solved if they had just read and implemented one parenting book. But thank God they haven’t, because then I wouldn’t get the pleasure of watching them on Supernanny and feeling superior!

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And, Now, Supernanny [Curbed]

These “I’m too sexy for anybody” types thatare [sic] complaining about the supposed interference from The Real World cast and crew at the gym will be the first ones to try to get in the shot in the background. Then months later, they will call everybody in their home city (from Indiana), all of their co-workers (IF they’re working), and even a “TIP” to curbed about how s/he will be in an episode of MTV’s The Real World and how “pissed” they are but in actuality they are so happy and will Tivo the episode and show for years later to their little rugrats about how cool their mom/dad was back in the day.

Sounds about right to me.

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A Brooklynian poster thinks she saw some Real World: Brooklyn cast members joining the Crunch gym on Flatbush in Prospect Heights.

And in more Real World: Brooklyn exercise news, NewYorkology got some pics of some cast members working out for the cameras on Pier 41 in Red Hook.

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Newyorkology recently caught some pictures of what just might be the Real World: Brooklyn cast out and about near Pier 41 in Red Hook.

And the internet series The Line, which we caught filming in Cobble Hill last month, has debuted online, according to Cobble Hill Blog.

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Originally posted on Filming In Brooklyn

George Weber reports on his blog about where The Real World: Brooklyn cast may be doing its drinking. We found this by way of Greenpointers.

And The New York Observer has two reality show reports: The first is on 50 Cent’s new Apprentice-type reality show, which is housing its contestants in Greenpoint, next to a place that slaughters live poultry. The second is on Top Chef filming in Williamsburg.

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And some Red Hook residents weigh in to The Brooklyn Paper on hosting The Real World: Brooklyn.

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