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Ramsey got Botox

Fandan Simon Cowel apparently gave him the idea.

Charles Lockley, head chef at The Boath House Hotel in Auldearn near Inverness has been named the Scottish Chef of the Year.

Naked chef enters 2009's Rich List

Jamie Oliver was ranked 1,348th in the Sunday Times Rich List, with a fortune of an estimated £40 million with rival Gordon Ramsey dropping out of the top 2,000 altogether.

Last year, Ramsey, was in 1,446th position, with an estimated worth of £50 million, however it has been suggested that he has been affected by the downturn in the City.

El Bulli was named the world’s best restaurant for the fourth year in a row but chef Ferran Adria dedicated the prize to runner up Heston saying he has shown me what honesty means in this business. Spanish restaurants occupied three of the top five spots. Adria said. In third place after The Fat Duck was Denmark’s Noma, followed by Mugaritz and El Celler de Can Roca in Spain, Per Se in the United States, Bras in France, Arzak in Spain, Pierre Gagnaire in France and Alinea in the US. Ramseys Hospital Road slipped out the top 100(Whiit)

Ramsays got a new motor
He was spotted taking advantage of the bright April sunshine as he took it for a spin today. His purchase comes just a few weeks after he was reportedly forced to sell his 'pride and joy' - a Ferrari Scuderia - at a £50,000 loss. He also has a Range Rover and an Audi for everyday use.

Ace line up for Hells Kitchen

Ms Dynamite tee he is in it, she’s cool as fuck and Lip ootae shameless, hope he gives Marco lip,
Bruce Grobbelaar too and some other people too like Vivian oot the young ones, Anthea Turner and Crystal Carrington
Claudia Winkleman will present.


G-20 Menu
Slow-roasted Welsh lamb is the main course for Wednesday's dinner where President Barack Obama will sit next to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. It is accompanied by wild mushrooms, asparagus and potatoes from Jersey in the English Channel.
Appetizers include baked Scottish salmon with vegetables and goat's cheese from Hertfordshire with roasted shallots. Bakewell tarts and custard is on the menu for dessert.
Vegetarian leaders will be offered potato dumplings and asparagus.

Ramsay has opened his latest restaurant venture in South Africa despite questions about the health of his business empire.

Gordon Ramsay has opened his latest restaurant in South Africa despite questions about the health of his business empire.

He launched Maze at the luxury One&Only hotel in Cape Town with a star-studded party attended by Hollywood celebrities Sharon Stone, Morgan Freeman and Clint Eastwood.

The 170-seat restaurant is the latest outpost of Gordon Ramsay Holdings, which owns 25 eateries worldwide. However, Maze in Prague recently closed down and other Ramsay ventures, including his eponymous New York restaurant, have stopped serving lunch. Waiting lists for his flagship restaurants, including Gordon Ramsay at Claridge's, have also been hit by the economic downturn.
Maze will face tough competition for bookings from a branch of rival restaurant Nobu, the Japanese chain part-owned by Robert De Niro, which is positioned directly across the hotel lobby.

However, Ramsay remained bullish about the launch. He said: "I fully expect this will quickly become another of our successful and sought-after restaurants."
-stated affair, although it attracted an A-list guest list and culminated with a lunch attended by the former South African leader Nelson Mandela.

Gordons Kitchen Nightmares

Just eight of the 22 eateries he tried to turn around on Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares remain open with the same owners who “starred” in the shows.

Owner of the latest restaurant to close – Love’s Fish Restaurant in Brighton - Allan Love said, "I'm now destitute, I've lost my business, my home and I'm penniless.

“Ramsay leaves a little guy in the shit and just makes himself look great."

Missing Chef Claudia Lawrence

The father of missing university chef Claudia Lawrence has walked part of her route to work, handing out posters appealing for the public's help to find his daughter.
Peter Lawrence visited a parade of shops in Melrosegate, on the outskirts of York, with family friend Martin Dales and handed out flyers to businesses and the public.
Solicitor Mr Lawrence took to the streets a day after he made an emotional appeal for help to find his daughter as detectives said they could not rule out the possibility she had been abducted.

Jamie Oliver has been hired to cook for G-20 leaders in London next week, nearly a year after they provoked outrage by eating an eight-course meal while discussing the global food crisis.
Jamie is devising the menu leaders will eat at the first night of the G-20 meeting in London.
Leaders at last July's G-8 meeting drew heavy criticism for enjoying an eight-course meal featuring 19 dishes while they were meant to be discussing how to ease global food shortages.
Essex, England-born Oliver says he is planning a seasonal menu that will showcase "the best of British" for the international guests, his company said.
The menu will be unveiled April 1, the day before the summit, when G-20 leaders will dine at 10 Downing Street.
Oliver will be joined by a team of young chefs from his apprenticeship program at Fifteen, the London restaurant he founded in 2002.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall to host C4 quiz

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has been lined up to host a Channel 4 pilot quiz show about food.
Food Fight will test the two team captains and celebrity guests on their knowledge of cooking, food history and popular food culture.

The show has been billed as "lively, funny, combative and laced with bonhomie", with promotional material seen by Broadcast pledging "[this] is not an entertainment vehicle to find out who can get the cheapest laughs or swear the most, it unashamedly celebrates what the two team captains and their guests know about food."

Gordon Ramsay now sells Paris restaurant

Ramsay has sold his only restaurant in France a week after selling the Los Angeles outpost he opened just one year ago.

Ramsey, who recently became the first British chef to win two Michelin stars in France, has scaled back his overseas empire, selling the Paris-based Gordon Ramsay au Trianon to the American owners of the Trianon Palace Hotel.

Guide Michelin awards two stars to second Swedish eatery

Mathias Dahlgren’s Matsalen restaurant in Stockholm has been awarded a second star in this year’s Guide Michelin, becoming Sweden’s second two-star eatery.

Celebrity Chefs make you Fat

LONDON - A REPORT from United Kingdom group, the Fat Panel, has found that the single servings of recipes in celebrity chef cook books contain too much fat.
Some recipes from celebrity chefs like Nigella Lawson and Gordon Ramsey's were found to have more than the entire daily recommended fat intake of 30g for men and 20g for women said a report on Friday.
And Big Macs are healthy?
Veyrat plans for Czech restaurant

Coinciding with the countdown to Michelin's March 16th announcement of any new stars for the Czech Republic, French and Czech media have been abuzz recently with news that Michelin-starred French chef Marc Veyrat is planning to open an eco-friendly restaurant in the middle of a forest in central Bohemia.
Veyrat is still in talks with potential investors to create the "Glade Pub" restaurant near Beroun, but has already sought the collaboration of Czech architects Petr Suske and Zdeněk Rajniš to design the wooden lodge.

Fat Duck Open

Ramsey sells LA Restaurant

Ramsay has sold his Los Angeles -- Gordon Ramsay at the London West Hollywood -- to the hotel's operator, LXR Luxury Resorts,
"Gordon Ramsay and his team will concentrate on menu development and service standards throughout all of the hotel's culinary outlets while the day-to-day food and beverage operation will be handled by the hotel," said Amy Campbell, a spokeswoman for the hotel in Los Angeles. "The restaurant will continue to operate under the same name -- Gordon Ramsay at the London West Hollywood."
"As far as the kitchen is concerned, everything is the same," said chef de cuisine Andy Cook, who previously has worked for Ramsay in London and Tokyo. "The food is the same, the standards are the same. It's the same name on the door and we're still pulling for three Michelin stars. You won’t see any difference."


ITV2 imports restaurant show in Granada US deal

ITV2 has bought a Marco Pierre White-fronted reality format that Granada America has made for NBC. ITV2 will air the show, Chopping Block, in May, immediately after the next series of Hell's Kitchen finishes on ITV1.
The 8 x 60-minute series sees White travel to New York to oversee two teams of four couples who run neighbouring restaurants in Manhattan.

More shit about Heston
According to Bloomberg.com
Fat Duck Sickness Complaints Jump to 400 Following Health Scare
“We’re saying 400 possible cases, not that 400 people have fallen sick,” Teresa Cash, a Health Protection Agency spokeswoman, said today in a telephone interview. “When people hear something like this has happened, they may call and report something.” The complaints relate to meals since late January.


Set the Sky Plus
Tuesday 9pm channel 4.
For Heston Historical Feast
Where he will devote an entire TV show to creating his own version of Lewis Carroll’s Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. Promised delights include an ‘aperitif’ comprising cherry tart, toast and turkey and a luminous jelly whose wobble will be powered by a vibrating erotic toy, apparently.
Michelin three-star to five Italian restaurants

Chef Heinz Beck of La Pergola
Italy in the hundredth edition of the Michelin guide confirms five graduate with the 'three stars'
The restaurants are: "The Smile" by Soriso (Novara), "Le Calandre of Sarmeola" of Rubano (Padova), "The Fisherman" Canneto sull'Oglio (Mantova), "Enoteca Pinchiorri" of Florence, and "La Pergola" located on the top floor of the Hilton Hotel in Rome.

Sabotage ruled out,
just a bug going about

Heston’s spokesman said reports of sabotage were "highly unlikely" as cases of illness were sporadic. "On a table of six, maybe only three people would get sick, so it could hardly be sabotage,"
"It's highly unlikely that someone would be able to sabotage the food. He (Blumenthal) is well known for his precise, scientific concoctions which would be very hard to sabotage. All this leads us to believe that it (the health scare) has not come from the restaurant and we expect to be given the all clear."
There's no indication as to what might have caused the illnesses.
The chef, who hopes to re-open on Wednesday, said experts believe a non-specific virus could be going around.


Shit, he wasn't really a Ger

Here he is with 2 legends though
Ramsay has admitted there may have been "inaccuracies" in accounts of his football-playing past after the news and screws report said he had lied about appearing for Rangers.
The article quoted Ramsay -- one of the world's most famous chefs who runs a string of acclaimed restaurants and appears on reality television cooking shows -- as telling a radio show in 2002 that he played three first-team games.
Ramsay put any "inaccuracies" in his recollection down to the passage of time. "Gordon has always downplayed his footballing past and been clear about the fact that he never made it to be a professional," his company said in a statement on Monday.
"As detailed in Gordon's autobiography, 'Humble Pie', Gordon was a promising schoolboy who was monitored by Rangers over a three-year period during his school holidays when he attended their Youth Policy.
"During this time, he played a couple of non-league matches as a trialist. A knee injury put paid to any further hopes of being signed by Rangers.
"Any inaccuracies regarding the details of this period can be explained by the fact that all this occurred nearly 25 years ago."

Marc Veyrat is the second chef in three months to give up running a top restaurant. In November, Olivier Roellinger, 53, turned in his three Michelin stars and closed his Maisons de Bricourt in the small Brittany port of Cancale, saying that: "Physically, I can no longer continue cooking. My legs no longer hold me." Both men cited physical disabilities but the infernal pressure to hold on to the top gastronomic accolade was said to be a key factor behind their move, am gutted.

2nd March.
Ramsay honoured in 100th Michelin guide
The Michelin restaurant guide marked its 100th edition today with honours for one of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's favourite hotels and for Ramsay's first French adventure.
Only one kitchen joined the elite ranks of those adorned with Michelin's maximum three star rating, Eric Frechon's restaurant at Le Bristol hotel in Paris, a temple to traditional French gastronomy..
It was seen by some as a big test for Ramsay, who once trained in France under Joel Robuchon, whose kitchens now boast the most Michelin stars worldwide, with 25 compared to Alain Ducasse's 19 and Ramsay's 12.
If so, it appears to have been a test the notoriously ambitious 42-year-old Scot took in his stride, as Le Trianon was awarded two stars in its very first year of business.
The Michelin Red Guide began in 1900 as a way of promoting pneumatic tyres and guiding owners of the first motor cars to France's best restaurants as they enjoyed their new freedom to tour the country.
No new editions were published during World Wars I and II, although the 1939 guide was re-issued in 1944 for Allied officers fighting their way through German-occupied France from the beaches of Normandy.
Today’s publication was therefore the 100th edition of the original French guide, while Michelin has spun off new versions in 23 countries.

1st March

Marco said that when Ramsey worked at the Intercontinental Hotel in Mayfair he was nicknamed ‘Billy Bullshit because of the tall stories he would tell. This comes with the News of the World trying to undercover the fact Ramsey was never a Rangers player, can't be bothered going into it.

Was it sabotage?

Health inspectors looking are to investigate whether it has been the victim of sabotage. A senior environmental health official said ‘We are considering the possibility that this was not an accident.
'Everything depends on the results of the second round of tests, but in mysterious circumstances like this you have to consider all possibilities.’
Thames Valley Police said: ‘This is not a criminal investigation at this stage. Everything depends on the test results.’
But initial tests failed to discover the source of the outbreak and the inspectors have sent a second batch of samples The Fat Duck is expected to remain closed until at least Wednesday.
Heston Blumenthal said that the closure of the restaurant will cost him £80,000.
Asked about the possibility of sabotage, Mr Blumenthal’s spokeswoman said: ‘Everything is being considered. I would be surprised if it was done deliberately, but we can’t rule out anything until we get the test results.’

28th Feb
Fat Duck shut over food poisoning scare

Dozens of customers have reported feeling unwell after eating there, Berkshire, where the tasting menu costs £130 and features such culinary delights as mustard ice cream and snail porridge. Initial tests conducted by environmental health officers and Blumenthal's own food safety consultants have come back negative, but the chef has closed the restaurant temporarily as a precaution. Reservations for the coming days have been cancelled.

The restaurant closed on Tuesday and no date has been set for its reopening, although Blumenthal said he was hopeful that the situation would be resolved next week. He said: "I was in France doing a demonstration on Monday night when I realised we may have to close. I slept on it - or, rather, I didn't sleep - and took the decision on Tuesday morning.
"After 14 years of work, to come to the point where you have to close the restaurant is upsetting. The Fat Duck for me is very much a labour of love. We have 40-odd chefs for 40 customers. All that we try to do is give the best possible experience to our customers and we don't want anyone to feel remotely uncomfortable, let alone unwell. We put so much time and effort and work into providing the best quality we can. But I don't know what else to do but close the restaurant."
Diners who had visited the restaurant began falling ill two or three weeks ago. Between 30 and 40 people have been affected.
The source of their symptoms remains a mystery, as the Fat Duck's kitchens are among the most rigorously monitored in the country. Blumenthal said: "The samples have all come back negative. It's very strange. Four or five years ago we enlisted the help of a hygiene consulting company and we routinely send samples off for analysis, as we know there can be all sorts of pitfalls in the supply chain. All our systems are checked and monitored. We have done everything in our power and I've never come across anything like this before.
"We called in the environmental health officers and they said it could be a non-specific virus which is going around. But all our staff have been tested and nothing has shown up. We have even logged the table numbers and the members of staff who served those tables, and there is no correlation. The environmental health officers have been very supportive, although obviously they are concerned."
The closure will prove costly for Blumenthal, but he insisted: "It's very financially damaging, but my first concern before anything else is the customers." All affected diners will be invited back to the restaurant for free meals, and customers with cancelled reservations will go on to a priority waiting list..
The self-taught chef opened The Fat Duck in 1995. In 2004 - the same year it was awarded a third Michelin star - food and safety officers found "borderline" levels of listeria in the foie gras and expressed concern that "no core temperatures of the meat are taken". The problems were swiftly dealt with, however, and Blumenthal has since introduced stringent procedures.
The closure is unfortunately timed as Blumenthal's latest Channel 4 series, Feast, begins on Tuesday. Viewers will see him prepare frog blancmange and blackbird pie in a programme which explores food through the ages.

27th Feb

Prices Dropping
The set menu at Masa Takayama’s three-Michelin-star restaurant at Manhattan’s Time Warner Center fell to $400 from $450, marking what could be the first time the sushi temple has ever cut its prices.

26th Feb
Fanny Cradock, one of the original TV chefs was born 100 years ago today.

La Maison de Marc Veyrat to close

Marc Veyrat known for roaming the countryside seeking wild herbs for his top-of-the-range dishes, said he was closing his star establishment for the time being for medical reasons. "I am stopping work in Annecy because physically, I have to, following a serious ski accident three years ago," Veyrat said. The restaurant, he added, would be put on "stand-by" for the next few months and perhaps transformed.

Set The Sky Plus;The Rise of the Superchef, BBC Two, Wednesday, 25 February, 9pm

The'll soon own whole village

The owners of the Michelin-starred Star Inn in Harome, North Yorkshire have invested £1.3m in the Pheasant Hotel, which is just 200 yards away from the pub restaurant.

Little Gordon

Gordon Ramsay has signed up a nine-year-old “mini me” to appear on his TV shows… after he saw the youngster’s hilarious impressions of him on the internet.

Angus Fired

Angus Deayton has been given the boot from Hell's Kitchen following a series of arguments with Marco Pierre White.
ITV said "Marco and Angus never got on and now Angus has been axed from the show," the source said. "He is seething but Granada realised they basically had to choose between him and Marco. At the end of the day, Marco's the star of the show and the bigger personality."
Marco has been banned from using pricey ingredients on Hell’s Kitchen cause of the credit crunch.

Mario Batali grabs José Andrés arse

At the Food Festival's $1,000-a-plate dinner for the king and queen of Spain master of ceremonies Mario Batali said ''All you weasel fuck wads in the back corners, can I have 10 seconds of your time?'' impatient that the crowd wasn't quieting quickly enough for his introduction of chef José Andrés. He said he had ''The most mother fuckin stars of any Spanish restaurant in the U.S”. Those who were seated near the royal couple said the queen blanched. Observers said Batali also grabbed Andrés' butt.

Hells Kitchen Computer Game

Mac Games to release Hell's Kitchen Game based on the reality show with Gordon Ramsay.
The game features a 3D model of Gordon Ramsay who rates and comments on your performance, and touts a "career calendar" style of gameplay. There are 35 Gordon Ramsay recipes from the TV show to unlock as you proceed through the game; you can print them out and try them yourself.

Marco has another dig
Marco says if Gordon Ramsey was made of chocolate he would eat himself.” But would quite happily be marooned with Heston Blumenthal. “As well as being a very intelligent man who could provide me with excellent conversation, I would get 18 courses every night for dinner.”

Ramsay pulls out of Maze Prague
And ends Hilton partnership
It's not you, Prague; it's Gordon Ramsay.
After little more than a year, the celebrity chef is ending his "business relationship" with Hilton Prague Old Town - in effect, closing the Maze restaurant and recalling executive chef Phil Carmichael.


Fast Food Srives in Ressesion
Fast food stores are doing far better than fine dining places as cash-strapped customers trade down from white-tablecloth restaurant service to cheap and cheerful convenience outlets. While posh restaurants are struggling in the downturn, McDonald's, the world's biggest fast-food chain, reported last week that global sales rose 7.1 per cent in January.

Today on Big Ramsey
He blow dried his hair in a salon.

Ramsay prevents Marcus Wareing buying vintage wine
Gordon Ramsay is removing every drop of vintage wine from the ex Petrus world-famous cellar - and refusing to sell it to an old pal.
He was so furious at losing out he ordered his firm, Ramsay Holdings, not to sell.
Instead, he had it moved to a make-shift cellar ready for this summer's planned opening of his own new restaurant, which will take the Petrus name, in Knightsbridge, West London. Marcus Wareing

More Stars for Ramsey

Ramsay's restaurant at the Trianon Palace in France has apparently won him two Michelin stars but also prompted accusations that it is "boring, pompous and very expensive" from the country's foremost, and most feared critic François Simon saying his repetitive cuisine is not interesting. It's like a photocopier: it is Xerox food."

Spain's Adria unveils food of tomorrow

Ferran Adria has always been ahead of his time and this week he was the undisputed star of the Tokyo Taste "world summit of gastronomy".The Spaniard showed off his latest creation -- a machine that can for the first time make a caviar egg with olive oil inside.Adria's other creations include powdered foie gras, a caramel made of Modena vinegar and a Chinese-style preserved egg with a liquid yolk.In a technique he calls "spherification," Adria uses a gelling agent to create foods that combine different textures or temperatures. He showed a mango ravioli and a half-frozen grapefruit, crusty on the outside but juicy on the inside.

Another top Spanish chef, Santi Santamaria, caused a stir recently by saying Adria "fills up plates with gelling agents and emulsifiers from the laboratory" which could pose a "public health problem".

France's Joel Robuchon, whose restaurants in eight cities routinely gather Michelin stars, expressed awe for the Spaniard's creativity, but also said his methods set a potentially risky example for less-talented chefs."Ferran is someone I admire a lot and I consider him to be perhaps the greatest chef in the world," Robuchon said. He demonstrated how to make a granite of Japanese sake while preserving the alcohol and aroma. First he places it in an ice-cream maker and then in a cold strainer to remove the water from the ice crystals. French chef Pierre Gagnaire gave credit to Adria but said the media should not "obsess" over his techniques."Molecular food isn't my thing," Gagnaire said. "Some people do it well but others don't do it well."This is the new 'new cuisine' and it's going to lead to major things. But if this becomes too intellectual, it will get unbearable."


Ramsay breaks world record for swearing.

The F-word was used 240 times during Gordon's Great British Nightmare.
It contained 312 swear words - one every 20 seconds.
Who the fuck counts this shit?

Ramsay is a huge success in America - after toning down his language.
He had 14 million viewers for Hell's Kitchen USA.

Antony Worrall Thompson closes four restaurants
and says "it makes me cry"

He has had to shut four restaurants, leaving 60 of his staff redundant.
The TV chef, 57, turned to personal savings to help keep control of two other restaurants and a delicatessen.
He said he "experienced an unexpected but decisive fall in revenue across the businesses from September 2008".

Tom Kitchin comes round to cook
The youngest Scottish chef to win the food industry's highest accolade a michelin star is bringing hisdining experience into the comfort of people's homes in his new service.

Ramseys swearing edited back in

In the American version of Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, the chef's swears have been bleeped out, so TV staff are having to edit the footage to get the words back into the show.

Buisness is booming since Ramsey Show

BUSINESS has been far from sleepy for one Okehampton restaurant — it has enjoyed a flow of customers since celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay came to town.

Juniper restaurant shuts its doors
The Juniper restaurant in Altrincham has closed.
The moves comes only months after Swiss chef Michael Riemenschneider bought the restaurant from Paul Kitching. Brasserie Blanc in manchster has also closed.

Marco Pierre White launches new City restaurant
Marco has helped launch a new restaurant in London, with the opening of a steakhouse in the City yesterday.
Marco Pierre White Steakhouse & Grill is housed in the former Lanes restaurant

Ramsey Swears like fuck
Gordon Ramsay failed miserably in his bid to avoid saying the F-word after he used it a record 132 times in his two hour show.

Irvine Welsh reckons he's a bit of a cook
He sais"I'm very good at ... cooking: everything and anything. My speciality is a wide range of off-beat soups, particularly Dutch pea soup,"
Theres a brilliant bit in his book Porno where Sick Boy eats in a michelin star place in cannes and the girl he's with describes the meal in detail.

Obama's Chef
Sam Kass

Paul Kitching names new Restaurant 21212

HE'S known for his eccentric dishes but now Michelin-starred chef Paul Kitching has gone one better with a new, cryptically-titled restaurant in Edinburgh.
Kitching, who is known for his dishes featuring Horlicks and Weetabix and once served a puree on a toothbrush next to a minty mouthwash, has revealed his new Royal Terrace restaurant and hotel complex will be named 21212.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown joined fantasy novelist Sir Terry Pratchett, TV naturalist Sir David Attenborough and celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal at the Downing Street launch of Science, (So What? So Everything).

Documentary to examine the life of Alinea chef Grant Achatz

Fly-on-the-wall filmmaker R.J. Cutler headed to Chicago for a new film about chef Grant Achatz, the acclaimed chef and owner of Alinea.
The title? "Taste."

Paris Hilton thinks Gordon Ramsey is the PM

Blowfish testicles prepared by an unauthorized chef sickened seven diners in northern Japan and three remained hospitalized Tuesday after eating the poisonous delicacy.

Marco to charge £5 a pint at his pub in Newbury, Berkshire.

Gwyneth Paltrow to star in a TV food show
She is to team up with US chef Mario Batali on Spain... On the Road Again.
In 2008, Gwyneth and Mario were filmed as they embarked on a gastronomic tour of Spain.

The beefy "Iron Chef" has also prohibited Gordon Ramsey from entering any of his dining spots, including the Spotted Pig and Babbo, after Ramsay began calling him "Fanta Pants" to make fun of the orange shorts Batali sometimes wears.