“Nightmare in the kitchen”: targeted by an avalanche of insults, this Albigensian restaurant has closed its doors

The intervention of Philippe Etchebest will not have been enough … Therefore, placed in receivership just a few days after the broadcast of the showcase in the kitchen. For example, the Albigensian restaurant The Garden of the Four Seasons has definitively closed its doors.

The Albi Commercial Court said this week the judicial liquidation of the company of Alexandre Bravi. Similarly, the restaurateur who called the famous chef at La Récousse. Furthermore, A bitter end for an adventure that had everything to succeed.

This emblematic establishment has been beating the hearts of Albigensian gastronomes for almost 40 years. Nevertheless, In October 2022. Alexandre Bravi, former apprentice who became the right arm of the historic chief, had decided to resume the adventure. Before everything goes through in 2024 …

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“This difficult. painful decision, marks the end of “nightmare kitchen”: targeted avalanche insults, an adventure that I led with passion, commitment and sincerity, explains Alexandre Bravi. I put all my heart in this project, surrounded by a great team, without whom nothing would have been possible. Together, we have known ups and downs, but always with the desire to do well.”

“Hate messages. unfair judgments and harassment acts” – "nightmare kitchen": targeted avalanche insults,

Increase in loads, crowds in free fall… To avoid sinking, Alexandre Bravi had played his last card in early 2025: calling on Philippe Etchebest and nightmare cameras in the kitchen.

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The show, broadcast last April, had exposed to millions of viewers the faults of an in suffering restaurant: uncertain service, aging decoration, unattractive menu … before an ephemeral takeover. If Alexandre Bravi has fond memories of the shooting. “nightmare kitchen”: targeted avalanche insults, his meeting with the chief, the post-diafusion leaves him a bitter taste.

He who hoped for a salutary spotlight had to face a difficult human element to live: “After the broadcast of the show. many hatred messages, unjust judgments and acts of harassment were directed against me and the restaurant, he relates in a thank you letter to his customers, partners and friends. These free, often violent attacks, have deeply reached my motivation and my morale. To people, with their weaknesses and their sincerity. “

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“Son of P ***”. “Big disgusting”, “Dirty liar”, “stupid”, “ungrateful” … Alexandre Bravi explains that he faces insults in cascade after the show. He who had assured that he had lost 12. 000 euros in turnover during the 15 “nightmare kitchen”: targeted avalanche insults, days of closing that followed the shooting, had not measured the reach of his words and did not think of such a “bad buzz”.

“I’m leaving my head high”

“The constant increase in the price of raw materials. the increasingly heavy fixed charges, and especially a very high rent with an annual increase planned, have constituted a financial weight that the restaurant could no longer absorb”, justifies the one who also had a caterer activity.

“Faced with all these elements united. I had to make this decision, death in the soul, but with lucidity, continues the Albigensian chief. I leave my head high, with the “nightmare kitchen”: targeted avalanche insults, feeling of having given everything.”

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Alexandre Bravi had separated from his server shortly before the broadcast of the show … He was alone in an officer in his restaurant located in an unreported street in the Madeleine district. a location that suffered from its distance from the city center.

With the liquidation pronounced, there remains the sale of the property of the company to try to mop the debts. For the restaurateur. it is a page that turns – suddenly, but definitely – on a dream that has become too heavy to wear.