Country of origin United States Original network Fox | No. of episodes 16 | |
Original release July 18 (2011-07-18) – September 19, 2011 (2011-09-19) | ||
Season 9 of the American competitive reality television series Hell's Kitchen premiered on July 18, 2011, on Fox and concluded on September 19, 2011, with a two-hour season finale. Jr. sous-chef Paul Niedermann won the season and was awarded a "head chef" position at BLT Steak in New York City, New York.
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Gordon Ramsay returned as head chef, as Scott Leibfried and Andi van Willigan remained as sous chefs, as did James Lukanik as the maître d'.
The entire season took about six weeks to film. It also saw the show return to its original one season per year schedule, having run two seasons each in 2009 and 2010 due to the after-effects of the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike.
Opening sequence
The intro features Ramsay playing pinball with the chefs inside trying to dodge the pinball and the machine's bumpers.
Contestants
18 chefs competed in season 9.
Contestant progress
Epilogue
Paul appeared in season 11 as a part of the champion's team against the final 5 in black jackets. He made another return in Season 12 to pick one of the contestant's dishes to appear in the Hell's Kitchen Calendar alongside Season 3 winner Rock Harper, and Season 10 second runner-up Dana Cohen.
Jason returned as a contestant in season 12, where he was the runner-up.
Tommy was as a contestant on the March 30, 2014 episode of Food Network's Cutthroat Kitchen, and won $19,000.
Elise re-appeared in season 13 as a customer during the 200th dinner service, and has also made an appearance as one of the five celebrity chefs on the August 12, 2014 episode of NBC's Food Fighters
Paul now works at BLT Steak Miami and appeared in the season 15 finale as an adviser for the two finalists.