Kitchen Nightmares visits West Nyack
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- February
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Some of you may have noticed camera crews and trailers on Route 303 in West Nyack about a week or so ago. It turns out Fiesta Sunrise, a Mexican restaurant, is going to be featured on Kitchen Nightmares, a reality television show on FOX, where a chef and his team help failing restaurants get back on their feet. It’s not just any chef though  it’s Gordon Ramsay, the guy who gained notoriety on Hell’s Kitchen (another reality television show) for making people cry.
The crew was at Fiesta Sunrise for six days and helped restaurant owner Patricia Zaldivar redo the decor, the menu and the way food was prepared. Zaldivar said she put her life’s savings “and more” into the restaurant and that she was elated when she was chosen to be on the show, even if it meant displaying her life’s problems for all to see. “I just felt like that was my last resort,” she said. “I think it needed a big change.”
A spokeswoman at FOX said she doesn’t know yet when the show will air but we will definitely do a story on it beforehand to let you know.
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We just got back from this restaurant, and we both feel ill. Horrible service, horrible food.
Would love to go and run that place. They need someone who knows how to cook, and how to run a sopt like that. Poor manager is the key to the failed Mexican restaurant. If anyone knows how to get in contact with the owner, can you get them to e-mail me. Thanks
Chef Milmore
Canada
shane_milmore@yahoo.ca
I feel sorry for the daughter Patti and her husband. The manager is a moron and even Gordon Ramsey can not turn around someone that stupid…
Chef Milmore who just posted must also be an idiot – why don’t you look it up and just call the place and ask for Patti, the owner.
Besides, they had the top Mexican chef and restaurateur from Manhattan, Juliette Baliesteros try to help them – what are you going to do?
Chef Milmore is a typical Canadian. They are too busy telling Americans how to run their lives. Physician, heal theyself!
I found that this place was shutdown for failure to pay taxes in Sept.’08. This must have been filmed before that??? The new look must have brought too much attention. Also…Chef Milmore…WTF???
I’m watching the episode now. He fixed the resturaunt, and I just heard that it was shutdown. WHAT A WASTE OF TIME!!
They should’ve fired the cooks and got new ones… They had no idea how to cook.
it shut down? if i did i feel bad for the guy who payed for the restaurant
Damn it!!! I was thinking about driving up there! What a waste of time. I guess the show should have been aired sooner.
Immigration should have rated that place
If Gordon had killed Vic the manager they might’ve stood a chance.
Zagat’s probably, not Immigration, should “rate” their place. Maybe Immigration could “Raid” the place. You spell like they cook.
anyone ever eaten there
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according to the state taxation she actually paid her taxes the day after she was closed.
http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080924/NEWS03/809240347/1211/NEWS0301
If this one is shut down, that makes 2 now from this season’s KN. The seafood place with that “the great Gordon Ramsay is wrong” manager also closed down.
From what I understand, these episodes were actually supposed to have aired a few months ago – I think like early summer – but for some reason FOX put them off until now. I don’t know how much, if any, difference it would have made in their fates, but had the shows run as initially scheduled – and IF the restaurants had kept up with all the changes GR made – the publicity might have helped them out a bit.
I have to admit, though, I’d be kinda scared to go to one of the restaurants on the show, just because I don’t know how much faith I’d have in their ability to keep up the changes. They were able to let it get that bad in the first place.
Is this place open or not??
I’ve eaten there and never will again. Since they reopened, they’ve had several fights and a stabbing.
Marlon, the school board should have ‘rated’ your horrible spelling.
It’s ‘raided’, you idiot.
I feel bad for VIC, i know the family personally and they made him seem as the bad guy. Vic and Yolanda are the owners and Vic is their open to close. Yolanda and Patty are never their.. I feel bad for them….The cooks should get fired. I know a great mexican restaurant, Zapata in Palisades they are great and really nice
Has Mayor John Shields been back lately since Gordon is not there to oversee everything? What about the Rockland Health Inspector…. that slimy meat, stiff seafood and roaches made my skin crawl.
Gliddy glab glooby, nibby nabby nooby, na na no no.
I don’t see why not that many images of West Nyack were shown other than the Palisades Center. There were images from neighboring Nyack and Tappan. West Nyack is more than just the Palisades Center, which was partially built over an African American Cemetery for war veterans. There are so many locations of historical significance that I can’t see why neighboring Nyack and Tappan were shown at all.
Also, John Shields is the Mayor of Nyack. West Nyack is a hamlet in the Town of Clarkstown. Nyack is a village in the Town of Orangetown. John Shields has absolutely no authority over West Nyack. West Nyack does not have a mayor.
All I know is I have to get me one of those Mega Margarita Machines he had in the doorway!
Hi, I am Vic, I should fire myself. I am pathetic restaurant man. My staff stupid. Can’t make Nachos. Don’t even know how it’s possible to burn it. It was made yesterday. No, it was made last Friday. No, they don’t even speak the English. I feel like small man. My step-son-in-law want to kill me. I so sad man.
My husband & I ate there on Saturday night. It was open. The restaurant looked beautiful on the inside. The food was actually good, the staff was nice, and they had a guy that sings at your table. Give it a try.
Hello all,
I see many people posting bad reviews simply because they have seen the first part of the TV show “Kitchen Nightmares.” Gordon Ramsey made a great attempt to turn it around on the show, and I wanted to come and check it out some 8 months after the show was taped to check it out!
I went for lunch today on 11-18-08.
I ordered a $9.95 lunch special which included soda, soup, and a main dish.
I chose the Chicken soup. It was very nice and flavorful, with good chunks of chicken, nicely seasoned and it was garnished with fresh cilantro. This mexican version of chicken soup was very nice and delicious!
Next came the entree. I ordered the Beef Burrito. I was pleasantly suprised! The sauce over it was light and very flavorful! The meat was very fork tender! The Rice was perfectly cooked The vegetables on the plate were fresh.
The diet coke tasted fine and was perfectly carbonated.
I don’t think I’ve ever had a better mexican lunch for $9.95! It really is a great place with great food and Karaoke is now advertised to be starting on Wednesday nights at 7PM the day before Thankgiving!
Hi, I would go there to give Vic a hand for free for a few months. Me and my staff are after taking two different restaurant out of debt, and now they are doing well. Thoes saying wtf to me, how many restaurants do you own?
I’m not saying im the best, or my shit don’t stink. But a place like this just needs a little help, you can see the place is beautiful and no reason they should be going down hill. Closecover, if us canadians don’t help you Americans, who will we know how to run our lives. I did call and no answer. I would help them for free. Thats what i would do.
Hi, i kinda agree with each persons comment. Chef Milmore, I gave your contact info to Vic, He said he will call you. I see where your coming from, a guy like that may need a little help, but he also needs cooks who know how to cook. I hope your true to your word and do help him.
Cheers!
Grant
i read all your comments and find them amusing and informative. we have let 2 cooks go and employed new ones. chef julieta gave us free cooking lessons for 1 month not one day.A gift from chef Ramsey. she brought in an assistant who stayed with us for 3 months after that- Miss u Victor. We had to let him go because he wanted a salary increase, We have cleaned up our kitchen and improved our food. I hope you will give us a second chance. thank u!!
the show filmed early february of this year.10 months later we are still hanging in there.
I just watched the episode it was very entertaining. You have to think Fox puts a little spin on the situations to make it more interesting. They did a great job of making Vic the super villain but everyone should be accountable. Great to hear they’re still plugging along, best of luck.
Well, well…
I took my girlfriend to this place. I told her that I saw this place in Kitchens Nightmares and she was kinda worry. then I decided to show her the K.N. in my iphone. Her face was priceless. Anyway, I ordered a bunch of food and so did my girl. Let me tell you guys THAT MEXICAN FOOD WAS AWESOME!
You have to try it!
I am still trying to figure out what Patty’s wife did for a living…..Also, it didn’t seem like Vic was too interested in paying back those loans if he was willing to insult the guy to his face in the restaurant….
Did I miss something?
Sorry meant to say Patty’s husband!
My mistake and I apologize to Don.
Hi.
Is this restaurant located where the ol’ Moby Dick (AKA “Moldy Prick”) restaurant used to be?
Wanko
Ate there when in NY for Thanksgiving week. Had not heard about the Chef Ramsay thing before going. Decor was nice and food was good.
Fiesta Sunrise was seized by the state yet again! These idiots rent the place from the owner (formerly grill303). Since they have been renting, they are back many months on rent, owe back taxes, let the place turn to crap. They have had stabbings, they break in and steal from the inside after the state shuts them down, and they have been warned several times by the owner but the owner’s hands are tied b/c he can’t legally throw them out…so he has to watch his place tuen into a shithole. Then the owner is stuck paying for its facelift and malfunctioning things in the end.
The owners broke in and stole the stuff?
If anyone looks at the wikipedia sites of kitchen nightmares, at times it has said that the restaurant was seized by the state for failing to pay taxes. Then someone goes and edits the information. Right now, there are no notes for the restaurant. Now I’ve found out that they usually won’t allow notes about a restaurant if there isn’t an article up about it somewhere. Is there a way to get it on wikipedia so that it will say restaurant was either seized or closed?
I took my sister from Ireland to this restaurant when she visited a couple of years ago and the food wasnt great. She called me today to tell me that she saw it featured on Dave Ramseys KMs over there and was horrified by what Dave found in the kitchen. I personally believe that you cannot teach an old dog new tricks, so I wont be going back there again if its still open for business.
I’ve never been to Fiesta Sunrise and probably never will. If it was Gordon’s restaurant he would have fired the manager and the entire kitchen staff. However they were making a TV show for entertainment purposes where the whole point is to turn the restaurant’s fortunes around without firing the entire staff. Compared to other episodes i think Gordon realised that this ship was too big (and the crew too stupid) for him to turn around and that’s when he hired in Juliette. Normally he manages to turn the place around by himself but this one was too big and with such liabilities on the payroll ultimately doomed.
Actually, that place- Fiesta Sunrise- opposite the Pallisade (take a look next time you drive by) is just a very clever cover for an CIA operational basis. Ramsay and FOX were stupid enough to fall for it but the reason the kitchen staff couldn’t cook was that they are actually skilled agents, previously mainly used by the DEA for raids in Columbia. How convenient Patty (“we had to let Vic go”)- I actually did some time with him after an undercover mission went foul and we found ourself in a county jail in Venezuela. He was lucky enough to have the government bail him out. Best thing at the restaurant is actually the trap-door in the fridge leading to a secret basement. Its full with satellite equipment and that stuff. Why else would they pretend to “shut the place down” if not to have a time window to install all that sophistcated stuff- how gullible can you be?!
Hola,
My name Rodrigo, me work as one of chef in Fiesta Sunrise, me was chef who burn nachos, me excusa for that mistake. Vic find me in Guadalajara, he say u come work for me, i pay u good, u sleep in kitchen. Me and amigos go to west nyak, work as cook, sleep in kitchen with ratta and cockroch with blanket and work 14 hour a day. I say too much, Vic get mad, he hit us, stick his finger in my anus. My anus become red. He put guacamole on my anus and lick it. Mi dispiace Yolanda, but your husband a faggoto. I now got sack by Patty, i miss her titties very much, me a lonely hombre
watching this program from GB. It’s strange that ‘Patty’ finds these comments amusing! Where and how do people who know nothing about restaurants get the money from. If as stated this business was $800,000 in debt, it appeared that this was money Patty had put in, i.e. not suppliers, or landlord, or bank. Patty and her family must be extremely wealthy be take such a ‘couldn’t care less attitude’ How do stupid people become rich. Many of the comments have stated that other restaurants with similar names are owned by members of this family, are they in a similarly bad state?
Vic Patty and Yolanda seem to know no shame, and why did you think advertising the disgusting state of your ‘restaurant’ ,airing your personal family difficulties and financial state was a good idea? ‘we spend so much time looking out the window, looking at each other’!!!!!!!!!!! get up off your arses and sort it out! Ramsey’s program is entertainment, this appeared to be your life, sort it out. Or is there more to this than appears?
So it’s just airing now in February 2010?? Geez, Gordon, why the delay?? Two years out??
Not sure how this episode shows how Mexican food is any better or worse than always. Everybody knows, eat Mexican and you take your chances, unless its a Mexican dish from Denny’s.
jerry-d this program was aired before 2010 it a rerun but if i live in newyork i would try it is it still open i read on the internet it closed
Wow just watched the episode. That was disgusting. The best Mexican Resturants are in LongIsland NY. They are called Viva Loca and Don Juan. Look it up.
Is everyone that reads or writes on this forum illiterate? Seriously! What’s going on in Nyack? Maybe they should focus a bit less on Mexican’t food and try focusing on education.
Well, this week’s episode of KN, was entertaining and frustrating. I think all were to blame, but from a cultural perspective, it is also sadly completely understandable. Female subservience to the male, the male’s lack of mental and emotional maturity etc.
It is sad that the place closed downe…it did right? or did it start up again somewhere else?
I am sure ALL knew the state of that kitchen and its goings-on.
Where does the money come from to start a third time?
What DID Don (woof!!!) do for a living, it was evaded by him on the program.
Listen, if no one ever teaches you to wipe your ass, than you don’t wipe your ass. This is obviously the way these people
(that work in and own the restaurant) live. You can have GR come there and try to teach them the right way to do things. But when he leaves, they’re
going to go right back and do it the same way they always have.I’m sorry but if you work in or own a restaurant, you know if there’s cocka roches and bad food in the kitchen. Yes this guy Vic is a real tool but they are all to blame. Its funny how they (GR) never goes to these peoples homes. I bet its just as filthy as the restaurant.
Vic needs to be fired. I would be surprised if the restuarant is still open today. It seems like Vic is stuck in his ways and the place would fall back to it’s old ways following Gordon’s visit.
wait so is this restaurant still open? i called the phone number and its disconnected
Based on the comments here, the restaurant is closed for financial reasons.
I, too, thought Vic was gay. Poor Yolanda, Not only did she get taken in by a swindler but he’s gay, to boot!
The State of New York must have someone who saw this show and will crack down on the health inspectors for that area. Who runs that area? Is it in a city or county? Regardless, I would never eat anywhere near West Nyack, New York for fear to food poisoning. The show was fun to watch and we had a lot of laughs, especially reading this blog, but it confirms our belief that it is always best to order a drink and little else at most of these restaurants. Honest to God, NY State officials should hunt down that family and deport them regardless of where they are from or their resident status. Seriously, what the hell was that all about, illegals in the kitchen (don’t even try to tell me that Jose, Jose, Jose, and Carlos) and as far at the cockroaches, well, it’s Mexican food isn’t it. The fact that there was no disclaimer at the end of the show that said the place went under and Vic is on the run was wrong. Lastly, whoever brought up Bobby the Bouncer not disclosing what he does for work, well, that got us thinking. Can you spell MOB? Follow the money (pecos).
I called a friend at a local FOX station and she said that KN was delayed because lawyers for one of the places threatened to sue so all the shows will be about places that closed. Anyone able to confirm this?
i just moved from this area actually lived right up the street and as far as i knew they close garibaldi because the wife got divorced and then vic came in and tried to run it with her its actually right down the street from fiesta sunrise. So as sfor fiesta sunrise its closed, and rumors say that wife left vic and they reopened another mexican resturant in stony point a few towns away named las magueritas along with patti(the daughter) the new location was old home to fiesta cancun which was an awesooooooome mexican rest popular great food but their bar was the business n they lost their liquor license frequently for underage drinkin so they ended up closing. but las magueritas is open.hopefully they arent screwing it up,,, and i feel for pattis husband its terrible
Go Tiger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Vic da man for getting not 1, but 2, beeeeothes to lay down for him. He da playa!!!!!!!!! Don’t be hatin on a playa.
The lawsuit went to arbitration. I believe it is not an issue any more.
TW
Thanks for contributing nothing to the dialogue.
Tw,
You are obviously A highly educated person and your thoughts on this matter I’m sure are going to be highly respected here on this issue. If this family opens another
restaurant I think you should contact them for a job.You
sound just like the type of person that they would have working in the kitchen…. On second thought…..You’re
a dumb-ass.(And the word beeeotches. Not beeeothes Professor)F#@$en moron.
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I don’t understand how Ramsey didn’t see the cockroaches til halfway through the episode!!!!
Valerie: It is called “Jump Cut Editing”
It’s the build up to the story…
I heard a rumor that Vic was in jail, anyone know what the deal is?
thanks!
Not only is this restaurant featured in Kitchen Nightmares, look for it in the classic italian grindhouse thriller “Gates of Hell” (aka City of the Living Dead/aka Paura nella città dei morti viventi). During the Scene where Christopher George and Catronia MacCol are heading up to Dunwich, they pass The Moldy Prick, er. The Moby Dick as they drive up 303. You can see it in the background.
truth of the matter is the husband doesnt work and lives off pattis real dad and so does yolanda this isnt the first time they been in business and lost there business do to poor service i know the family very well and there is a long story behind all this but they suck at owning anything they are good at spending money and shopping and they dont care about anything else
It’s “Is everyone WHO reads or writes….....” Dumbass
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Frank wrote:
February 12th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
“Is everyone that reads or writes on this forum illiterate? Seriously! What’s going on in Nyack? Maybe they should focus a bit less on Mexican’t food and try focusing on education.”
Chef Ramsay certainly had his work cut out for him on this episode. Unfortunately you just can’t fix stupid.
Shame the cooks spoke no English. Were they born here?
what a bunch of worthless disgusting pigs. filthy. vic should be murdered and so should the rest of the spoiled ugly family. what a bunch of fucking retards. too bad these kind of filthy bastards live all over the place here in america. fucking embarrassing and disgusting, not just the restaurant but the people running it and working in it. i can’t believe some of you actually feel sorry for this vic guy. he’s a lazy fat ugly piece of shit. i wish death upon him and the rest of his ugly lazy stupid family.