Gordon Ramsay is a boss.
Seriously, that guy is awesome, but even potty-mouth bosses make mistakes.
We aren’t saying that Gordon Ramsay is a bad cook, we’re just saying
that he makes mistakes sometimes, and those mistakes are so rare
that we had to look very hard to find them.
And here they are…
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When Besha Rodell, reviewer for the L.A Review, sat down at Gordon
Ramsay’s restaurant, cleverly named “Fat Cow”, she was probably
expecting food worthy of the Ramsay reputation.
But that’s not what she got, and she was very vocal about her disappointment.
The review is riddled with sarcastic rhetorical questions
that sums up her experience.
How do you think it went?
How about we let these questions answer that?
“How was the fish?
Who knows?
All I could taste was glop.”
Ouch.
Not exactly the glowing review you’d want for your restaurant.
She also laments the fact that her burger featured
some plasticky cheese and that her fries were doused in truffle oil.
If you’re a fan of Ramsay then you’ll know that this is an insult.
Ramsay himself considers truffle oil to be beneath him.
Granted, Ramsay may not have cooked that exact plate of
food for him, but she had this unfortunate experience at a restaurant with
his name on it.
Look, if you make a decent living off of fixing other
restaurants, shouldn’t you make sure that yours are up to the standard
you’re preaching about?
It seems like Ramsay isn’t having a good time in London either.
A few nasty surveys have poked their heads up and
have ranked some of his highest rated London restaurants as having
disappointing food and being overpriced.
We all know that you have to fork out a massive amount of
money for his food, and he has earned that right through all his hard
work.
But, his celebrity status does not allow for bad food.
Look, if we’re going to a Ramsay restaurant, we are usually
going to expect two things from the experience.
One, a few decent selfies to post on Instagram so
that our friends will think that we hang out with famous people.
And second, some out of this world food.
But from what the people on these surveys are implying, we think we’ll only
get one of the two things we came for.
But then again, Gordon defended himself by saying that the
surveys were highly biased.
We think we’d take the risk for Ramsay.
Why do we have such a fascination with this man?
Or rather, is it a fascination with other people’s pain.
Probably both.
Let us know in the comments section!
Hands up, who hates plane food?
We do.
We also hate how hungry We get high up in the air, which then forces
us to eat the terrible food.
Ramsay understands this though, so he came up with the idea to sell his
food to people at airports so that they don’t have to eat plane food.
Anyway, he named his restaurant, Plane Food, which is so subtle that it’s
genius.
The restaurant, which is stationed at Heathrow’s terminal 5, has
been slammed with bad reviews though.
People have lamented about the poor service, and the high prices.
But worst of all, the bad food.
At which point, do we wonder, did this all become very
ironic?
Ramsay’s goal was to eliminate the need for plane food, but
the restaurant seems to be as bad as commercial plane food.
So, is the concept cursed?
Or should Ramsay spend more time monitoring his current
restaurants instead of constantly opening new ones?
We might never know…
There is one word that strikes fear into the heart of every chef.
No, not rats.
Cockroaches.
Those lil’ nasties get in everywhere.
They poop on your shiny new equipment, they multiply faster
than your customers, and they leave behind this rancid smell.
Worse yet, they die, and their decaying bodies and waste ends up in your
food.
You know where you’d expect to find cockroaches?
That dodgy sushi counter at your local gas station.
You know where you don’t expect cockroaches?
At Gordon Ramsay’s Michelin starred restaurant, The
Maze.
The restaurant, which received a 5-star hygiene rating previously,
now received a 2-star rating.
Which must have been a devastating blow for the restaurant.
If you’re paying 165 Euros for a set menu with wine
pairings, you kind of want the kitchen to be clean, right?
I’m guessing that a few people deeply regretted visiting the restaurant after that.
The food may have been great, but what was lurking in it?
Ew.
You know who is a fan of Ramsay?
We are!
You know who isn’t a fan of Ramsay?
AA Gill.
Gill is a reviewer for the Sunday times, and is famous
for his sharp and forthright reviews.
He’s kind of like that guy on “Ratatouille”, you know, that guy with
the long nose and who always wears black.
Hold on.
Googling it.
Ah yes, Anton Ego.
So think of Gill as Anton Ego and Gordon as the rat.
Just with more swearing and without the underdog storyline.
Gill described Ramsay’s Chelsea eaterie, Foxtrot
Oscar, as having “ a bland, tacky makeover in several subtle shades of
cold corpse” interior and the menu as a collection of “safe and unexciting
constructions”.
We feel like this was unnecessarily harsh, but then I took
a look at the interiors, and cold corpse doesn’t seem far-fetched.
We can’t vouch for the menu though, because my idea
of fine dining is ordering extra large fries with my burger.
So… we’ll just let those two have at it.
Oh, and did we mention that Ramsay once had Gill
thrown out of his restaurant?
Fun times, you guys!
Jan Moir is a critic who called Ramsay’s pub, The Warrington, lacking in
consistency.
We don’t really keep up with critic jargon, and we’re sure
you don’t either, so we’ll break it down for you.
On her first visit to the pub, which is like a bar where you can get
food and alcohol, she described the experience as a “notch above
superb” which is high praise.
But then, by her third visit, she said that her opinion of the pub deflated
“like a bad souffle”.
Which is not glowing praise.
This is all very disappointing and all, but come on, why go
to a pub for food in the first place?
We’re not sure how things work overseas, because we might be
woefully uncultured, but if you want to have a proper idea of his cooking,
why not go to one of his Michelin rated restaurants?
That doesn’t excuse bad food though, so we see her point.
Onwards!
What is your favourite food?
That’s such a difficult question to answer since each dish has a good quality.
For example, Pad Thai is loved because it manages to be sweet, spicy and
sour at the same time.
It is such a curious combination that works so well.
In fact, that unique combination is what we’ve come to expect.
When Ramsay tried his hand at making the dish at the Blue Elephant restaurant,
though, the head chef wasn’t impressed.
He said that Ramsay hadn’t hit the right sweet, sour
and salty notes.
We know Ramsay loves dishing out criticism, I mean, he
has a show where he fixes other people’s restaurants for goodness
sakes.
But, we have to say that he took the criticism well.
He did get the last laugh when a Buddhist monk tried his
Pad Thai and liked it.
So, there’s that too.
We guess bad food is a matter of opinion.
It’s almost like in the professional culinary world, bad food
is a matter of opinion.
And unless a celebrity chef actually burns the
food or straight up pours an entire pot of salt over his food, we aren’t
going to be able to tell whether or not the food is actually bad.
Oh well.
Gordon Ramsay Steak belongs to Gordon Ramsay and is one of his
more famous restaurants.
People flock there to catch a glimpse of the foul mouthed chef, and you never know if your
food might actually have been cooked by the man himself, which is enough
to draw even the most apathetic fans to his restaurant.
It is this fact that makes bad reviews such a sad story.
One couple experienced such a bad time at the restaurant
that they felt the need to voice their legitimate concerns on
Tripadvisor.
The customers described it as the worst restaurant ever, and
complained about the service.
They relate how poorly they were treated by the staff, which is one of Ramsay’s pet
peeves.
They then went on to say that the food quality was much worse than
the food you’d expect at a pub (kind of ironic).
They reserved a table, but were bounced around the
restaurant like a bunch of pests, and found themselves cringing at their
food.
This is worse than embarrassing, it is concerning.
Jay Rayner is another famous food critic who had a less than stellar
encounter with Ramsay’s food.
Now, we have looked at scathing reviews, and sad, honest reviews.
We have seen everything from gleeful to disappointed.
But what Rayner experienced may be infinitely worse than
anything we’ve spoken about yet.
He says that the worse part of the experience was going home, and not having
a single thing to write about.
He was stumped.
He was bored.
He couldn’t think of a single interesting thing to say about the experience.
He then goes on to rant about how other chefs change their menus, but that Ramsay
sticks to the same menus he’s always had.
It’s good food, but it’s all the same as what he
served in the 90’s.
That’s not to say that Rayner was unfair, because he
said some very nice things about Ramsay, which means that the review
was unbiased.
We think that makes is even worse.
It seems like you should avoid Ramsay’s restaurants in Las Vegas for a
little while.
Gordon Ramsay’s BurGR, has received more than its fair
share of reviews.
All the reviews have a lot in common, and they all give
the restaurant the same rating- B for BAD.
Look, these reviews should be taken with a pinch of salt, but since they
pop up on respected review websites, they should be taken seriously.
Ramsay is a great cook, and is like cooking royalty.
He has done a lot for the restaurant scene in
London, and is very entertaining.
But his restaurants will have their bad reviews.
That is just the way things work, unfortunately.
Every restaurant you go to, will run the risk of disappointing
you.
It’s just sad when it disappoints a lot of people.
But, we know Ramsay will bounce back.
He always does.
And heaven help the critics when
he does.
Love or hate him, Ramsay is here to stay.
He may have made a few mistakes, but that shouldn’t
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