Gourmet Night is the fifth episode in the first series of the BBC TV
sitcom Fawlty Towers.Basil Fawlty is having trouble with his Austin
1100 car. Despite Sybil's insistence that he take the car to a garage
for repairs, miserly Basil tries to fix the car himself.Meanwhile,
Fawlty Towers has a new Greek chef named Kurt who has been found for
them by André, Kurt's culinary trainer and a friend of the Fawltys.
Basil and Sybil are intending to host a gourmet night at the hotel.
After a rude, pampered boy calls the hotel a "dump" simply because the
chips weren't the shape he preferred, Basil â€" ever eager to attract
the upper crust of clientele in Torquay â€" includes a "no riff-raff"
notice in his advertisement for the gourmet night. Only four people
turn up for the occasion: Colonel and Mrs Hall, both JPs; and Lionel
Twitchen, one of Torquay's leading rotarians, along with his wife,
Lotte. A party of four, the Coosters, were forced to cancel at the
last minute due to one of them getting ill, to which Basil remarks
"Let's hope it's nothing trivial." Gourmet Night Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter