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The nation is struggling to get over Monkfishgate on last night's The Restaurant

She may never live this down.

Mar 8th 2018, 7:38 AM 9,940 Views 2 Comments

ON WEDNESDAY NIGHTS, the nation turns into a gaggle of culinary critics as the latest celebrity attempts to impress Marco Pierre White and his panel of, well, actual critics on TV3′s The Restaurant.

This week, Ciara Kelly was on the chopping block.

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And lads, she absolutely nailed it.

The broadcaster, who served up a starter which good ol’ Marco dubbed ‘the best on the show ever’, was ultimately awarded four stars.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ stars!! Well done @ciarakellydoc! #Therestaurant pic.twitter.com/CuoBrPJoq9
— Marco Pierre White (@MPWDonnybrook) March 7, 2018

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All great, time to go home, right?

Wrong.

While Operation Transformation’s former medical expert was celebrating a job well done, viewers just couldn’t get over the fact one of the diner’s didn’t know what monkfish tail was.

In fact, it seemed like it was ruining some people’s evening.

Holy god afood blogger who doesn’t know what monkfish is 🙄#TheRestaurant
— Elaine (@elainemhughes) March 7, 2018

Source: Elaine/Twitter

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Blog this 🤔: Monkfish tail refers to the portion of fish left once the head has been removed. Fishermen or fishmongers will often remove the ferocious looking head prior to the fish being sold so almost all of the monkfish available to buy is the tail. #TheRestaurant
— brightsparks (@Brightspark_s) March 7, 2018

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There’s a girl who claims to be a food blogger that has never had monkfish and didn’t know carpaccio should be cold!! 🙄🙄#TheRestaurant
— Sandra Gray (@Sandie98) March 7, 2018

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Monkfish tail #theRestaurant it is the fish you D s
— nick hassell (@blacksopt) March 7, 2018

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Well, we definitely knew what it was… no questions. Yep.

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The nation is struggling to get over Monkfishgate on last night's The Restaurant