Product Details

• Actors: Lenny Henry, Roger Griffiths, Caroline Lee-Johnson, Claire Skinner, Gary Parker
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: BBC Warner
• VHS Release Date: July 19, 2000
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00004WG67
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #335,116 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unpasteurized cheese, freedom loving crayfish and Jamaica, December 5, 1998

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[e-mail] (Ft. Pierce, Fl) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chef: Second Helping [VHS] (VHS Tape)

If Chef was good, a second helping is better even. At Chateau Anglais, Chef Gareth and his crew continue to outrage, outcook and outspice anything broadcast today. Are there more videos in this series?. I want more more more!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Manic Chef, January 27, 2004

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takingadayoff "takingadayoff" (Las Vegas, Nevada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chef - A Second Helping [VHS] (VHS Tape)

If you are expecting subtle, understated British humor in Chef!, you are in for a noisy surprise. Chef Gareth Blackstock, played by Lenny Henry, is loud, insulting, blustering, conceited, and a genius in the kitchen.

This second video contains the 4th, 5th, and 6th episodes of the first series.
(4) Chef tries to find a supplier of illegal unpasteurized cheese for his restaurant, and gets in trouble with the law and with his wife.
(5) Now that Chef and his wife have bought Le Chateau Anglais, they need publicity. Chef must endure interviews with clueless journalists and pose nicely for cameramen. It doesn't go well.
(6) Chef's peripatetic father drops in for a visit and suggests a Caribbean menu. Although Chef knows nothing of Jamaican cuisine, he enlists the bumbling Everton to help.

These episodes are among the best of the first series. This sitcom peaked early and the later series are not as good.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Biting Humor with a Sarcastic Venom, October 30, 2001

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D. Bodenheimer (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chef - A Second Helping [VHS] (VHS Tape)

If you liked the irate and biting humor of Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers, you are going to absolutely love Chef Gareth Blackstock. Chef runs his kitchen with terror and venom, just as Basil ran his hotel... the problem is that his wife is actually running the show, and only lets Chef think he's in control.