Hotel Hell-ish

Innkeeper John Hough, left, jokes with guests at breakfast last Thursday at the Roosevelt Inn in Coeur d’Alene.

What happens when a couple of Idaho innkeepers invite a British chef named Gordon Ramsay to come stay a few nights at their hotel?

All hell breaks loose.

Innkeepers John and Tina Hough weren’t entirely unaware of Ramsay’s penchant for profanity and confrontational demeanor, but let’s say they weren’t exactly fans. When John Hough filled out the application to subject himself and his wife to a week of filming and Ramsay’s rants, neither he nor Tina Hough had seen the celebrity chef’s shows, which include “Hell’s Kitchen,” “Kitchen Nightmares” and “Master Chef.” Lorie Huston, SR Full story.

You’ll have to wait until next week to read my account of our Murder Mystery Dinner at the Roosevelt Inn during the taping of Hotel Hell. I take exeception to Tina Hough’s comment: The guests were all pre-screened and Tina Hough is convinced they only picked people who said they were confrontational, critical and demanding. “They had some real doozies in here. If I would have been the Queen of Sheba and Julia Child and it wouldn’t have been good enough.”

Uh. I know at least a half dozen of the guests who visited the Inn during the taping and that’s not the way I’d describe any of them. Have you ever dined at the Roosevelt Inn?