The Belgian adaptation of The Restaurant That Makes Mistakes (local title: Restaurant Misverstand) has earned an International Emmy Award nomination in the non-scripted entertainment category.
A hit in Belgium across three seasons on VRT, the social experiment is a local adaptation of the Grierson Award-winning format The Restaurant That Makes Mistakes, originally produced by CPL Productions for Channel 4 in the UK.
The format – which has already been adapted in the Netherlands – sees a group of people all living with dementia, spanning different ages and at various stages of the disease, tasked with helping run a restaurant led by a successful chef. Over a five week period, and with a dementia expert on hand to advise, the group takes on all the roles of a busy restaurant, including cooking, taking orders, serving and making drinks.
The Restaurant That Makes Mistakes Belgium is produced by Roses Are Blue for VRT; the format is distributed globally by Seven.One Studios International.