Chef, restaurateur, writer, and TV personality Gordon Ramsay may be known as much for his fiery temper and spicy language as he is for his dishes. Many may know the often brash chef from his show “Hell’s Kitchen” and the international fame he’s garnered since it began airing in 2005. But Ramsay has been in the food industry for decades. He got his start long before the days of judging cooking competitions as a chef and worked at Aubergine in London in 1993 before opening his own restaurant, called Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in 1998 located in the affluent Chelsea area of London, according to Culinary Schools.
The launching of his restaurant was no doubt a huge personal success for Ramsay, but not long after he opened, he achieved coveted recognition in the food world. As noted on his website, shortly after it opened, Ramsay’s namesake eatery received three-Michelin stars, which is the highest honor a restaurant can receive from the rating system.
Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, also known as Gordon Ramsay at Royal Hospital Road, is the signature restaurant of the British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay at Royal Hospital Road, in Chelsea, London. It opened in 1998 and was Ramsay’s first solo restaurant. In 2001 it was awarded three Michelin stars, and in 2022 Ramsay celebrated 21 years with all three. In March 2013, the restaurant reopened following an art deco redesign under Chef Patron Clare Smyth. In 2020, Matt Abé took over as Chef Patron, owning and running the restaurant as part of Ramsay’s restaurant group. Gordon Ramsay opened Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in 1998, as his first solo restaurant.The location previously housed the Michelin-starred restaurant La Tante Claire.
Restaurant Gordon Ramsay gained its third Michelin star in 2001, making Ramsay the first Scottish chef to have done so. In September 2006, a £1.5 million refurbishment was completed.In 2020, Matt Abé was appointed Chef Patron. In November 2022, climate activists entered the restaurant and protested its menu’s environmental costs, upsetting customers.
In 2002, Giles Coren visited Restaurant Gordon Ramsay for lunch while writing for Times Online. He found that the meal had its good and bad points, saying “Perhaps the ‘best restaurant in Britain’ can only disappoint. Perhaps if I want magic I should wait for Paul Daniels to open a restaurant.” However, he gave scores of nine for execution, eight for service, and seven for “mind-blowing tingliness”.Terry Durack of The Independent reviewed the restaurant in 2009, describing the food as “classic cooking; sophisticated, well edited and flavour- first”. He gave Restaurant Gordon Ramsay a score of 16 out of 20.
In 2009, the restaurant dropped out of the S.Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants for the first time, and failed to make the top 100. The 2011 edition of Harden’s restaurant guide lists Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in seventeenth place in London in the “most mentioned” league table, a drop from ninth place in the previous year. It also ranked the restaurant in one of the top two spots in the “most disappointing cooking” category. Harden’s had previously listed the restaurant as the most overpriced in the UK.However, The Good Food Guide lists Restaurant Gordon Ramsay as the second-best in the country, behind the Fat Duck in Bray, Berkshire, and describes it as “the nearest thing to a world-class restaurant experience” in London.
