Gordon Ramsay Refuses ‘Dangerous’ Food on “Kitchen Nightmares”, Says He Wants to Be There for Son’s 1st Birthday (Exclusive)

Kitchen Nightmares is back and scarier than ever.

On the new season of Gordon Ramsay’s culinary makeover show, the celebrity chef heads to New Orleans to help a restaurant ahead of Super Bowl LIX. The cookbook author sets out to turn around the season's first restaurant, Iberville Cuisine & Oyster Bar, before football fans fill the French Quarter in Kitchen Nightmares: Road to Super Bowl LIX, premiering on Fox this Tuesday, Jan. 7 at 8 p.m. But, a clip shared exclusively with PEOPLE ahead of the series premiere shows that the task is loftier than Ramsay expected.

In the video, Ramsay is served “Cajun fries” and the first of raw oysters on the menu.

“I have the rest of the different raw oysters coming out for you,” the server tells the father of six. “The oysters are local,” she says as Ramsay looks closer at it.

“It doesn’t look very fresh,” he replies, touching part of the shell and revealing a black sludge residue on his finger.

The server answers that she thinks the restaurant got the oysters two days prior and that “they didn’t clean them very well.”

“I mean, oysters are dangerous enough but honestly I just recently had my sixth kid, Jesse James. I’d love to be around to celebrate his 1st birthday so I’ll pass on that one.” he concludes, adding, “It’s got clay and s---.”

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As the server walks away with the uneaten oyster, Ramsay says, “God bless you, Jesse. Fingers crossed I’m coming home, kid.”

“How the f--- do you serve Gordon Ramsay a dirty oyster?” the server shouts to the staff as soon as she enters the kitchen. “It’s not even shucked! Like how the f--- do you serve him that?”

The first half of the new season is set in New Orleans so Ramsay can help out different restaurateurs ahead of the Big Game, which is taking place on Sunday, Feb. 9 at New Orleans' Caesars Superdome. Past and present NFL stars will pop into different episodes during the first part of the season before Ramsay heads to Austin and Houston to make over restaurants in Texas, according to a press release.

The Fox series returned to the network in 2023 after nearly a decade-long hiatus. Ramsay told Entertainment Weekly in 2018 that it was his idea to cancel the series, which originally ran from 2007 to 2014.

"I canceled my own show on Fox, Kitchen Nightmares. I woke up in the middle of the south of France after filming a week with a British guy I wouldn't trust to run my bath, let alone my restaurant," he told the outlet. "Because he was running a ski resort, he felt like he could take advantage of all those customers because there was nowhere else to eat. He was giving me s--- for telling him the truth and I thought, 'I'm done.'"

Kitchen Nightmares: Road to Super Bowl LIX premieres Tuesday, Jan. 7 at 8 p.m. ET on FOX.

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