hotelKitchen Nightmares Australia · Season 1, Episode 4 · Aired November 2, 2022
Ccooks @ Corrigans
Batemans Bay
Still open. It kept its doors open after the show.
On the show
Season 1, Episode 4 · November 2, 2022 · resort restaurant
location not resolved in this pass
What happened after
Resort restaurant at Corrigans Cove Resort (Batehaven, opposite Corrigans Beach), Batemans Bay NSW, owner Andrew Johns. The resort itself is clearly active (official site, multiple booking platforms, current breakfast/dinner service hours posted), but the resort's own site describes dining generically (breakfast 7:30am daily, winter dinner Thu-Sat) without using the "Ccooks" brand name, so the specific restaurant identity may have been dropped even though resort dining continues.
What happened on the show
Colin Fassnidge was called to Batemans Bay, New South Wales, to sort out Ccooks @ Corrigans, the restaurant inside a coastal resort where owner Andrew Johns was fighting with an angry chef and losing money. What the show teased is that the surface complaint was not the real story: once Fassnidge arrived, bigger problems surfaced, along with questions about Andrew's actual motives for wanting the cameras there. That twist, an owner whose stated reason for the rescue masks another agenda, gives the episode more edge than a straight food fix. Set at Corrigans Cove Resort near Corrigans Beach, it aired in November 2022 as the season's fourth installment. Fassnidge's five-day method had to untangle a chef-owner feud, a restaurant bleeding money, and an owner who may not have been fully honest about what he wanted from the process. It is one of the season's more character-driven visits, less about a single terrible dish than about working out what Andrew was really after in Batemans Bay.
After the cameras left
The resort is thriving; the restaurant's name is the open question. Corrigans Cove Resort in Batemans Bay is clearly active, with an official site, multiple booking platforms, and current breakfast and dinner service hours posted. What the resort's own site no longer does is use the Ccooks branding, describing its dining in generic terms instead. So the honest read is that resort dining continues while the specific Ccooks @ Corrigans identity may have quietly been dropped. We log it as open but hold the confidence at medium, treating it as an operating venue whose exact branded name we cannot lock down as of our latest verification pass. Owner Andrew Johns' resort outlasted the 2022 episode; whether the restaurant still carries the name the show used is the part we cannot confirm.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.