Gordon Ramsay is best known for his appearances in “Hell’s Kitchen,” “MasterChef,” “The F Word,” and other cooking shows. He also has a thriving career beyond the screen, operating 58 restaurants around the world, with additional food hall stalls and food court locations, bringing the total to nearly 90.
The celebrity chef owns over 30 venues in the U.S. and several others in the United Kingdom, France, Japan, China, Canada, and the Middle East.
His first venue, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, opened in Chelsea in 1998 and received three Michelin stars by 2001. Today, the entrepreneur owns four Michelin-starred venues in the U.K. and France, plus other ventures, including a line of cookware, a charitable foundation, and several bestselling books. “It was always my goal to open my own restaurant and get Restaurant Gordon Ramsay to the top,” he told The Macao News. “To get there, I sacrificed so much personally to open it. So, from that moment on, I pushed everyone to make sure we excelled.
Gordon Ramsay’s Restaurants Offer A Unique Dining Experience
Gordon Ramsay’s Beef Wellington
The Michelin-starred chef wanted to create a fantastic experience for his guests. Along with great food, his restaurants revolve around unique concepts, such as the “Hell’s Kitchen” reality show. Some serve bottomless pizza, burgers, or fish and chips, whereas others offer signature dishes like raspberry soufflé, chicken suprême with root vegetables, or sesame-crusted tuna.
For example, Gordon Ramsay Steak in Las Vegas delights its guests with exquisite dishes inspired by global cuisine. The menu includes specialties like hamachi crudo, Hudson Valley foie gras, American Wagyu sliders, triple-seared miyazaki striploin, and butter-poached lobster tail. But if you go to The River Restaurant in London, you’ll find an exclusive selection of seafood dishes, such as citrus-cured salmon, seabass ceviche, and fish pie.
Ramsay wouldn’t touch plane food unless he could eat at his restaurant at Heathrow Airport. The venue is Gordon Ramsay Plane Food and offers three menus featuring quick, delicious dishes like Caesar salad, smoked bacon, beef burgers, and blueberry cheesecake. Guests can also bring the food onboard for a gourmet experience at 36,000 feet in the air. It’s also worth mentioning that many of Ramsay’s U.K.-based restaurants are dog-friendly, allowing pet owners to dine with their four-legged companions.
His Venues Have Drawn Praise And Criticism Alike
Gordon Ramsay Kitchen and Bar
Gordon Ramsay was named the world’s most successful celebrity chef in 2022 and 2023, but his work has received praise and criticism alike. Three of the reporters at Insider visited five of his restaurants, and their opinions were mixed. One wasn’t particularly impressed with Ramsay’s Times Square-based venue. At the same time, another had a rather disappointing experience at Ramsay’s Street Burger in London but loved everything about Ramsay’s Street Pizza and Pétrus. And a third was impressed by the ambiance at his Malaysian-based restaurant but not so much the food.
Similarly, the Reddit community has mixed feelings about Ramsay’s dining venues. “My wife and I are big Gordon fans, and one of the best meals we ever had was at Hell’s Kitchen in Vegas … His signature Beef Wellington is unbelievable,” said one user. “If you get dessert, definitely get the sticky toffee pudding — it’s crazy good,” he added. Some users said the food was good but not great. Others found the portions too small or too pricey. But, as one user pointed out, “It depends on what you’re going for.”
Blood pressure medication from Glenmark Pharmaceuticals is being voluntarily recalled by the company over failed dissolution amid serious safety fears. A total of 114 batches of Potassium Chloride Extended-Release 750mg Capsules, 100 count and 500 count are being recalled and consumers are advised to consult their physician before they stop using the product or if they experience any problems that could be related to it.
The company announced the recall over fears that the capsules won’t dissolve properly which could cause high levels of potassium. Potassium is often used to treat high blood pressure, yet extreme amounts of the vitamin can have devastating side-effects.
The announcement, shared by the FDA, noted that high potassium levels, also known as hyperkalemia, can result in irregular heartbeats that could lead to potentially cardiac arrest. For those who use the capsules as a chronic medication, particularly
those with underlying comorbidities or conditions like hypertension, heart failure or renal dysfunction, the company warned: “There is a reasonable probability of developing hyperkalemia that may lead to a range of severity of adverse events.”
These “adverse events” include: “cardiac arrhythmias, severe muscle weakness, and death”. However, the notice highlighted that there have been no reports of hyperkalemia or “serious adverse events” related to the recall.
Glenmark Pharmaceuticals shared a list of the specific batch numbers and expiration dates of the bottles involved in the voluntary recall in a document circulated by the FDA. American Health Packaging voluntarily recalled 21 batches of the same medicine on behalf of BluePoint Laboratories.
The FDA has also urged people to report any adverse events to its MedWatch Adverse Event Reporting program via mail, fax or online.
A TikTok star who flew to Tenerife to hunt for missing Jay Slater made an unpleasant admission about his quest on This Morning.
Paul Arnott, who operates the popular Down the Rapids page with over 153k followers, joined in the search for the missing 19 year old and was interviewed by the telly show’s crime reporter, Isla Traquair, on Thursday, 27 June.
Isla, who had also arrived on the Spanish island, was seen retracing the steps the apprentice bricklayer is known to have taken when he vanished on June 17, after staying in an Airbnb in a remote village following a three-day music festival.
Isla’s report to Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard in the studio included footage of the accommodation where Jay was last seen, as well as the hillside road he is thought to have walked along after deciding not to wait for a bus on the morning he went missing.
Paul Arnott was interviewed by Isla Traquair
As Isla chatted to Paul on the hillside road, he detailed his shocking view on Jay’s fate – that there was little chance of him being found alive.
“It’s not a nice thing to think of, but if he was in this environment and it wasn’t something else that happened, then the likelihood of him still being alive in this area – slim,” Paul explained, continuing: “If he had no survival experience – slim.”
This isn’t Paul’s first time helping in a search mission – the amateur mountaineer recently took part in looking for Tom and Richie Parry, a father-son duo who tragically were found deceased after disappearing in the Scottish Highlands last month.
Jay Slater
Isla retraced Jay’s steps starting at the Airbnb -Credit:ITV
This Morning’s bosses’ decision to send Isla to Tenerife has sparked controversy among viewers, as only a day earlier she had rebuked amateur detectives who had flown there to take part in the investigation.
Before vanishing into thin air, Oswaldtwistle-born Jay was living it large in Tenerife, his first holiday out of the UK with pals.
After the festival, his mates headed back to their digs just outside Playa de las America, but Jay decided to party a bit longer with two Brits he’d met on the holiday.
