Gordon Ramsay
- Profession: Celebrity chef
- Place/Date of Birth: Johnstone, Scotland, 08 November 2020
"It is hard dealing with Ronnie. He is a major responsibility. It is like having an 18-year-old to look after."
A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: "All I can confirm is that someone by the name of Ronnie Ramsay has been arrested and was charged on Friday in Bali.
Ramsay gets a roasting - Jan 8 2007
Gordon Ramsay’s first New York restaurant has taken a battering from food critics.
The celebrity chef’s American debut drew criticism from several writers in the city, who complained of "overcooked" sea scallops and branded lobster ravioli "leathery".
A mushroom risotto was called a "distinct disappointment" and one reviewer hit out at the "pitiful" lighting at Gordon Ramsay at The London.
New York Magazine’s Gael Green was the toughest critic, writing just days after the £3 million venture’s opening late last year.
"The chef’s signature feint, a luscious smoky froth with white beans, has us sighing, but most everything else is a work-in-progress," he sniped.
"Sea scallops, slivered, then overcooked, suggest someone hasn’t a clue what great chefs here do with diver scallops.
"We are shocked by a leathery lobster ravioli and an unseemly marriage of langoustine tails and maple-infused chicken (not to mention the bill)."
Green, who said he’d be back to try the restaurant again, added: "The gorgeous glass door doesn’t quite close, the bathrooms don’t lock, and the lighting is pitiful."
The New York Sun’s Paul Adams also had problems with the lobster ravioli.
"A creamy fennel sauce amplified the delicate shellfish flavor magnificently, but the sweet meat had that rubbery chew that signals overcooking," he wrote.
He added: "My meatless companion’s mushroom risotto was a distinct disappointment."
Gordon, 40, will still be waiting for the New York Times’s highly influential critic Frank Bruni to give his verdict.
The writer’s rating of between zero and four stars is said to be able to make or break an eaterie.
A spokeswoman said the chef was unavailable for comment today.
Chef’s wife finds recipe for TV success - Dec 12 2006
Gordon Ramsay’s wife Tana has landed her own TV show on cable and satellite channel UKTV Food.
She will co-host The Market Kitchen along with Tom Parker Bowles, son of the Duchess of Cornwall, and Clarissa Dickson Wright - one half of the Two Fat Ladies - plus chef Simon Rimmer.
The daily magazine show will be broadcast from a specially created kitchen at London’s Borough Market and begins in April.
The show is from the makers of Gordon’s TV hit Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares.
Tana, 33, a former teacher, has already followed in her husband’s footsteps by publishing a cookbook and writing a food column for a magazine. This is her first major presenting role.
The Market Kitchen is billed as "a totally new kind of food magazine show".
It will focus on seasonal food and feature interviews with Borough Market’s stallholders.
Members of the public will be invited to stop by and try out recipes.
’Kitchen nightmare’ chef jailed - Dec 7 2006
A chef who featured on Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares has been jailed for theft.
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Following his injury Ramsay signed up for catering college, passing with flying colours and going on to work under legendary chefs Marco Pierre White and Albert Roux. After honing his skills in kitchens around the UK and France, Ramsay went on to become a personal chef for an Australian TV star before flying back to London as part owner of Aubergine. But, in true Ramsay style Gordon had a bust up with the backers of Aubergine, causing him to walk out and take his staff with him to form his eponymous restaurant in Chelsea, the only London eatery to gain three Michelin stars.
He has also opened restaurants in Claridges and the Connaught as well as Petrus in Mayfair, Amaryllis in Glasgow and Verre in Dubai. Ramsay is also a TV celebrity, currently starring in Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares on Channel 4, a reality TV show which gives the Osbournes a run for it’s money in the ******* **** stakes.
October 2007