Is Ramsay inc down the sink. Oh F**K

sircharles

Someone mentioned The Ivy.............that restaurant is a joke! The food is notoriously ORDINARY and most people go there to try and peek a Z-list celeb.

Foodies NEVER go to The Ivy! It's a hangout for starstruck groupies....very sad.

Generali

sircharles wrote: »

Someone mentioned The Ivy.............that restaurant is a joke! The food is notoriously ORDINARY and most people go there to try and peek a Z-list celeb.

Foodies NEVER go to The Ivy! It's a hangout for starstruck groupies....very sad.

It's not that the food is bad, it's just not particularly special.

Let's face it, food gets extraordinarily ordinary in England.

sircharles

Generali wrote: »

It's not that the food is bad, it's just not particularly special.

Let's face it, food gets extraordinarily ordinary in England.

Generali wrote: »

It's not that the food is bad, it's just not particularly special.

Let's face it, food gets extraordinarily ordinary in England.

Generali wrote: »

It's not that the food is bad, it's just not particularly special.

Let's face it, food gets extraordinarily ordinary in England.

That's precisely what I said - the food is ORDINARY - not particularly special.

I don't agree that all food is ordinary in England - you obviously have never eaten in the same establishments I have.

However, one doesn't need to dine in fine restaurants to sample some of Britain's wonderful food. Our Scotch Angus Beef and Salmon is the finest in the world.........Spring Welsh Lamb, Jersey Potatoes, Scottish Raspberries, Kent Strawberries, Cox' Apples, Ham on the Bone, 'proper' Bacon, Plaice, Dover Sole, Atlantic Cod, Haddock, Cornish Crabs, Lobsters....we also produce some of the finest marmalades and jams in the world, along with Clotted Cream and Jersey Milk.......then there's our Scrumpy Cider, Scotch Whisky, Smoked Salmon, Herrings..............

All that along with our traditional Fish & Chips, Pie & Mash,Lancashire HotPots, Irish Stews, Roast Beef & Yorkshire Pudding, Pork Sausage & Mash with Red Wine Onion Gravy, Full English Breakfast with Black Pudding, Rhubarb and Apple Crumble with Cornish Cream...............

I think we have a wonderful cuisine in Britain, and what's more, you have the choice of sampling almost any other cuisine in the whole world by just popping in to your local supermarket to see the huge array of choice from all over the world, or from sampling one of the thousands of international restaurants that are on almost every High Street.

Lotus-eater

Toto wrote: »

I dated a celebrity has been chef for a few years.

Well there is enough of them now !!!!!!.

Toto wrote: »

And frankly I never could tell the difference between a £6 bottle of wine and a £250 one.

I'm sure I wouldn't either*, but I wouldn't mind the chance


* I think I would really

torontoboy45

with an estimated personal fortune of £60m gordon won't be losing any sleep.
I personally hope he slips off the radar. I'm tired of celeb chefs who think it's cool to verbally abuse their staff/suppliers. I'm fed up with people telling me that they're 'passionate' about what they do. so what? there are plenty of people from all walks of life who are passionate but don't need to resort to gutter talk.

for all of that I pity gordon sometimes. he's well-known to the london cab trade as a guy who 'goes into character' (i.e offensive loudmouth). so much so that he finds it difficult to hail a cab down, so is forced into the shadows and relies on his wife to put her hand out.

fame (or arrogant reputation) comes with a price tag.

spuds_2

If the restaurants do go bust, I doubt it will cost Gordon much. It depends how much of his own money was in them. He could do a Tom Aikens:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/3346251/Tom-Aikens-leaves-a-sour-taste-in-the-mouth.html

Put your company into liquidation, then it seems to me, buy it back cheaply, leaving a list of creditors to suffer.

Generali

sircharles wrote: »

That's precisely what I said - the food is ORDINARY - not particularly special.

I don't agree that all food is ordinary in England - you obviously have never eaten in the same establishments I have.

However, one doesn't need to dine in fine restaurants to sample some of Britain's wonderful food. Our Scotch Angus Beef and Salmon is the finest in the world.........Spring Welsh Lamb, Jersey Potatoes, Scottish Raspberries, Kent Strawberries, Cox' Apples, Ham on the Bone, 'proper' Bacon, Plaice, Dover Sole, Atlantic Cod, Haddock, Cornish Crabs, Lobsters....we also produce some of the finest marmalades and jams in the world, along with Clotted Cream and Jersey Milk.......then there's our Scrumpy Cider, Scotch Whisky, Smoked Salmon, Herrings..............

All that along with our traditional Fish & Chips, Pie & Mash,Lancashire HotPots, Irish Stews, Roast Beef & Yorkshire Pudding, Pork Sausage & Mash with Red Wine Onion Gravy, Full English Breakfast with Black Pudding, Rhubarb and Apple Crumble with Cornish Cream...............

I think we have a wonderful cuisine in Britain, and what's more, you have the choice of sampling almost any other cuisine in the whole world by just popping in to your local supermarket to see the huge array of choice from all over the world, or from sampling one of the thousands of international restaurants that are on almost every High Street.

I didn't say that all food is ordinary in the UK - much of it is dreadful or even scandalously bad. However if you look at the food that the majority of people eat in the UK and the way in which they it eat it, it is appallingly bad compared to any other country I have been to (I've never visited the US:-)).

There is a wonderful cuisine to be eaten in the UK but very few Britishers eat it. Have you been to Tesco lately? That's where British people buy their food and it is amazing for its mediocrity in its fresh food offering. If you start a thread on good food in the UK it's never long before people start banging on about the gastronomic delights of M&S ready meals.

barrooo

I'm not a big fan of most celebrity chefs, but I do have to give a mention to Rick Stein, I've eaten at both the restaurant proper and the cafe, down in Padstow.
Each time the food and service was excellent and I left with that 'contentedly full but not bloated' feeling. Sometimes they do 'taster' evenings at the restaurant and you get about 5/6 moderate courses for about £70-80, which seems reasonable to me.
I've eaten at some other celebrity chef restaurants and been a bit disappointed

krisskross

Toto wrote: »

I dated a celebrity has been chef for a few years. Honestly I wouldn't go to one of these restaurants now unless I was forced to for a work thing. After six months with said chef I was desperate for a plate of egg and chips. Luckily most of the people I mix with are musicians and the poshest we get is Nandos other than that it's a sandwich from a service station or a kebab after a gig.

And frankly I never could tell the difference between a £6 bottle of wine and a £250 one.

I can cook the egg and chips, and the ordinary stuff myself. It is what we usually eat.

The posh places are a now and again treat.

As for price.In our local Harvester a 3 course meal mostly deep fried frozen stuff will cost about £20. Our superb 3 course lunch at Claridges was £30 each. Plus we were given chocolates to finish, offered a tour of the kitchen. The food looked like art on a plate.

Went to the Harvester a week ago, sent back my first meal because the jacket spud was rock hard and the chicken breast black, actually looked as if it had caught fire and been put out. They obviously took the CHAR grilled description seriously. The second attempt was no better but as my companions had finished their main courses I gave up.

Conrad

Generali wrote: »

However if you look at the food that the majority of people eat in the UK and the way in which they it eat it, it is appallingly bad

The one that really gets me is the supposition by the majority that totts will only eat smiley faces, sausages and chicken dippers, yet I dont notice this propensity with Scandinavian or Med' kids.
It's just a state of mind. Did all Brit kids die of rickets before chicken dippers were invented?

When we eat out our kids are always given the normal menu, not the smiley faces menu, and they get terribly excited, and that despite my being a fussy eater as a child (cause Dad force fed us!)