Everyone loves to hate Gordon Ramsay. I may actually be biased as a reviewer by not being biased: I have never seen his reality shows Hell's Kitchen or The F Word, where his profanity-laden hissy fits earned him a lot of detractors. There's the rub of food television: When viewers love you, you're Molto Mario, when they don't, you're Rocco.
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There are stray, non-essential observations about Gordon Ramsay at the London that I didn’t put into today’s review, but I wanted to share them nonetheless. How handy is a blog at a time like this?
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When you have a show called "Hell's Kitchen" and a disposition that supports that name, any restaurant called Gordon Ramsay had better be great.
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Gordon Ramsay at The London Hotel is the latest New York restaurant vying for four stars from the Times and three from Michelin. The loudmouth chef already operates what is arguably the best restaurant in London (the three-star Gordon Ramsay at Royal Hospital Road), along with a bunch of others, including The Savoy Grill, which I visited last summer.
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Chef's Table in Restaurant Gordon Ramsay at the London, 194 gratlillian stars
As exciting as a guy hitting a homerun in the late innings to cinch a victory is, my favorite version of the American pastime is the few and far between games when every player on both teams plays every out expertly executing the fundamentals. Dining at the Chef’s table at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay is that kind of exhilarating.
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With two successsful restaurants in London (Restaurant Gordon Ramsay & Maze), not to mention a reality tv show that's gained him temper tantrum notoriety, Gordon Ramsay sets his sights on NYC's London Hotel (formerly the Righa Royal). The London Hotel is officially now home to two Gordon Ramsay restaurants: Gordon Ramsay at the London, a 45-seat formal fine dining affair, and a more casual small plates experience in The London Bar, with seating for 80. Ramsay has put chef de cuisine, Neil Ferguson, in charge of overseeing both menus as well as a three-floor kitchen with 80 cooks.
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Gordon Ramsay at the London, brief thoughts and porn
The London Bar at Gordon Ramsay: Opening night at Ramsay had the dining room filled with a wide swath of the NY eating set. Among assorted British and European accents were nearby suits as well as Ryan Sutton of Bloomberg, Restaurant Girl, Augieland and, surely, other food writers and bloggers dutifully taking notes and annoyingly taking photos (RG, we're talking to you, love). It was all ringled by King Ramsay himself, who worked the room like a champ, stopping for especially long stints at tables with favorable male-to-female ratios. But we especially appreciate that he was half in kitchen whites, which given his celebrity is half more whites than one might have expected.
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My recent post about reservation agents citing two-hour time limits on late-evening tables at Gordon Ramsay at the London generated an unusually high number of reader responses, and those responses touched on several specific matters and general themes I want to revisit here.
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