Gordon Ramsay

Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Casting in Southern California

Gordon Ramsay's restaurant turn-around show Kitchen Nightmares is casting in Southern California, and they want your help finding restaurants that need Ramsay's help. Casting directors are looking both for restaurateurs who are seeking Ramsay's council and recommendations from members of the public ... More >>

Church & State Update: Chef Tony Esnault Takes Over From Jeremy Berlin

The downtown bistro Church & State has a new chef. Former Patina executive chef Tony Esnault took over the kitchen recently, succeeding Jeremy Berlin. The move came when Berlin, who had worked with Gordon Ramsay previously and had come to Los Angeles from England to open Ramsay's The London West Hol ... More >>

Q & A With Lesley Nicol of Downton Abbey: Salty Raspberry Meringue, Adventures in Pretend Cooking How Mrs. Patmore is Like Gordon Ramsay

Downton Abbey starts its third season on Jan. 6 on Masterpiece Classic at 9 p.m. -- that would be tomorrow. Fans of the soapy period drama might be imagining the glorious nuptials of the long-suffering Matthew Crawley and the spoiled Lady Mary, or laying bets on whether or not Lord and Lady Grantham ... More >>

MasterChef Casting in L.A. Tomorrow Gordon Ramsay Will Be There! Lucky You!

Is it your lifelong dream to be berated and/or praised by a British guy on television? Isn't that every American's dream these days? If so, you're in luck! Because Fox's MasterChef is holding a casting call in L.A. tomorrow for season 4, and the show just tweeted that Gordon Ramsay will be in attend ... More >>

What's in a Name? Gordon Ramsay's Fat Cow: Insult or Loving Bovine Tribute?

Naming a restaurant is a tricky business. In just one or two words, you need to convey so much -- ideally a restaurant name should give prospective diners a snapshot of your ethos and aesthetic. It is the first cultural cue in a complicated social and business exchange. Which is why the name of Gor ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 10/1 - 10/5

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Two years ago a heat spike like these might have resulted in some sunburned fruit; this year, however, the crop has escaped this fate." Serious Drinking: The 2012 California Wine Harvest. "To use Anthony Bourdain's words on ... More >>

Gordon Ramsay's The Fat Cow: Open Today at The Grove

Gordon Ramsay is a chef who is probably more famous for his television screaming tirades than his food. Today, Los Angeles gets a chance to focus on the edible portion of Ramsay's talents with the opening of The Fat Cow at the Grove. It's only right that the name of the restaurant is modeled after o ... More >>

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>

5 Places to Eat When Your Parents Are Treating

It's not a special occasion, your parents just miss you and want to treat you to a good dinner and catch up. Awww. That's the best -- and if your budget is stretched thin and theirs isn't, all the better. The only issue is that their criteria for dining out is completely different from your own. The ... More >>

Gorday Ramsay to Open The Fat Cow This Summer

We know this is a prime moment for carnivores, what with the nose-to-tail movement in full swing. But Gordan Ramsay's new restaurant, slated to open at The Grove this summer, may be taking our meat-obsession a little too far. It's called, drumroll please, The Fat Cow. This comes just as Mendocino F ... More >>

Q & A With Christina Machamer: Hell's Kitchen, Gordon Ramsay, Heading to Napa Her Anti-Establishment Wine Tasting Tips

After winning season four of Hell's Kitchen, Christina Machamer became sous chef at Gordon Ramsay's restaurant at the London West Hollywood. But these days, she's traded the rapid-fire kitchen life to become the wine educator and resident chef -- albeit one with limited kitchen opportunities -- at B ... More >>

Former Burger Kitchen Space Now Luigi Osteria: We Hope Ramsay Doesn't Have to Intervene

Yes, we know it's old news. It didn't matter how many fights he broke up, how many morsels of food he spat onto the floor, how many tears he dried or how many times he forced his mug into the nutballs' faces and begged them to have, in various cases, sense, strength, sanity and compassion. Despite ... More >>

Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Season 5: A Casting Call A Call for Nominations

If you're a restaurant owner with a struggling business, odds are having Gordon Ramsay invade your kitchen and your life is not exactly the fix-it you have in mind. But then maybe it is. File it under the heading: Food & Masochism, or perhaps just I Wanna Be On TV. Because Ramsay's reality show Kitc ... More >>

Burger Kitchen on Kitchen Nightmares: A Family in the Grinder

FoxRamsay and the owner's son, Daniel.​Back in August, we let you know that 3rd Street's Burger Kitchen had re-opened after getting the Gordon Ramsay treatment on Kitchen Nightmares. Last week, the episode aired and the action was so thick, furious, and brutal that the producers have appeared ... More >>

Burger Kitchen Gets "Ramsayed" on Kitchen Nightmares

Anne FishbeinThe Mini Burger Delicious​Burger Kitchen has received plenty of praise from local critics, both of the pro and amateur varieties, but you're nobody in this town until Gordon Ramsay screams at you. The 3rd Street burger joint recently got the British chef's trademark revamp, comple ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Lots of Pie, 200 Year-old Desserts Teaching Kanye West to Cook

-- Gordon Ramsay teaches Kanye West how to cook. [The Mirror] -- How to make a 200 year-old dessert. [Zester Daily] -- How to open your own pop-up restaurant. [Forbes via food52] -- Pie-a-day #45, or white peach-brown sugar tart. [Good Food] -- Ricardo Zarate and Gary Menes cook a dinner ben ... More >>

Top 10 Pool Party Hotel Restaurants: Welcome to Summertime in L.A.

Jeff KirshbaumSmall plates from Gordon Ramsay's kitchen at The London WeHo's pool​ Despite the June gloom, summer is officially here and that means Los Angeles hotels go a bit Vegas when hosting poolside parties. Although people don't always go into the pool (and there's no European-style sunb ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Street Food, Is Donald Trump Drinking Too Much Willy Wonka, Molecular Gastronomist

-- Time to Boycott French Toast, French Fries Again. (See: burqa laws.) [The Awl] -- Gordon Ramsay moves to Bel Air ("12 bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, a summerhouse"). [Digital Spy, via Eater] -- New Farmworker Report Paints a Big, Grim Picture. [Civil Eats via @SlowFoodUSA] -- The wonderful world o ... More >>

Gordon Ramsay Looking for New Place to Drop F-Bombs: Kitchen Nightmares Casting Call

​Gordon Ramsay is back, and ready to make some L.A. chef's life a living hell. Kitchen Nightmares is in the midst of casting its fourth season and looking for restaurants the culinary ballbuster can tear through (and hopefully improve). Chefs and owners can nominate themselves, but you can sub ... More >>

And Now, A Brief Message From Gordon Ramsay

screenshot of Gordon Ramsay's Twitter page​

Guns, Gasoline & Shark Fins: Gordon Ramsay Risks Life for Television Show

MirrorGordon Ramsay​ If anybody thinks that being a TV chef is easier than actually working behind the stoves, Gordon Ramsay, of all people, can now report otherwise. The English chef, still a faint presence here at Gordon Ramsay at the London, West Hollywood and the host of many reality telev ... More >>

Chef Doubts Veracity of "Hell's Kitchen"

​Like chef Craig Thornton of Wolvesmouth fame, we often find ourselves gawping at the humiliation "Hell's Kitchen" contenders must endure. Unlike Thornton, we can tolerate it in more than 20-minute doses. The recent season 8 finale with Nona Sivley beating out blame-game expert Russell Kook wa ... More >>

10 Great Restaurants Open on Christmas Day

Anne Fishbeinshellfish tower at Delphine​ What's our favorite thing to make for Christmas dinner?
 Reservations. Pardon us if you've heard that one before. But we know that sometimes the whole gather-the-family-for-a-huge-sit-down dinner isn't exactly for everyone. For those who would prefe ... More >>

Los Angeles Casting Call: Season Two of 24 Hour Restaurant Battle

​ If you have recurrent dreams about running your own restaurant, or about being on reality television, or maybe even just about Gordon Ramsay -- of course you might be better off talking to your shrink -- here's a casting call for you. Food Network's food reality show 24 Hour Restaurant Battl ... More >>

Top 10 Food Books in My Pants

Want any of these in your pants?​ Over the past few days, Twitter has been atwitter with tweets about things showing up in people's pants. There were #MoviesInMyPants, #SongsInMyPants, #BandsInMyPants, and #TVShowsInMyPants. But if you follow people like, say @thejgold, or just about any chefs ... More >>

L.A. Beer Float Showdown Redux: Hops Ice Cream

Anne Fishbeinbeer float at Golden State​Okay, we realize that you can watch countless numbers of people chugging beer at any USC tailgating party, and probably countless numbers of other people downing ice cream or gelato in alarming quantities if you just hang out at Scoops or Bulgarini Gelat ... More >>

Web Surfing: A Roundup of News from L.A. Food Blogs & Beyond

-- Silver Lake's wild yeast man, breadmaker Mark Stambler. [Eating L.A.] -- So much for David Beckham and Gordon Ramsay opening a pub in L.A. Hey, what's Diego Maradona up to these days? [Grub Street] -- Mooi in Echo Park to host Community Supported Agriculture on Tuesdays. [Daily Dish] -- Are ... More >>

And Now, A Brief Message from Gordon Ramsay

screenshot of Gordon Ramsay's Twitter page​

MasterChef Debuts Tomorrow: Begging the Question, Chef or Cook?

FoxGordon Ramsay tastes a contestant's dish​Tomorrow night FOX premieres a new cooking competition show in which home cooks will compete for the title of MasterChef.  The top 50 contestants will cook the signature dishes that got them on the show for judges Gordon Ramsay, Joe Bastianich and G ... More >>

Gordon Ramsay's F World: The Stack of Unpaid Bills Grows

Flickr/The Consumerist​ Paying your bills is not always a pleasant task, granted. But you kind of have to. Gordon Ramsay, it seems, has not been paying his. According to The New York Post, two wine suppliers have filed suit against the Kitchen Nightmares star for unpaid bills. Today comes a re ... More >>

Must Have Kitchen Tool? The Celebrity Chef iPhone App

Brooke Burton​ The list of necessary kitchen utensils - whisk, wooden spoon, fish spatula, immersion circulator, nitrogen canister - now seems to include an iPhone. Because now not only must the celebrity chef have the de rigueur stack of cookbooks and (ideally) a reality television show, but ... More >>

Last Night at LudoBites: Bastianich, Kleiman, Bowles In Attendance

N. GalutenLudo strikes a pose during service​ LudoBites was hopping last night, as it is every night, but this time it featured seven new menu items, three food celebrities and one celeb no-show. Joe Bastianich of Mozza fame, Babbo fame, and seemingly countless other restaurants, was in atten ... More >>

Chef Tracker: Anthony Keene Takes Over the Stoves at Gordon Ramsay

Gordon Ramsay may have been a no show at LudoBites last night, where he had originally booked a table with Joe Bastianich, et. al., but the chef's around, even though he sold Gordon Ramsay at the London West Hollywood last year. (Ramsay is listed as "chef patron" on the restaurant's website, which i ... More >>

Squid Ink Food Fight: Brit Food Battle, Fish and Chips

Chefs like Gordon Ramsay, Heston Blumenthal and Fergus Henderson have helped bring the quality of British cuisine to a very high level. But for the longest time, England's dining was not looked at with particularly kind eyes-- yet we here at Squid Ink like to focus on the positives, glorifying the i ... More >>

World Fare BUStaurant Drives Into Town

Word Fare BUStaurant​ First there was the food truck, now there's the food bus. (Maybe next Gordon Ramsay can relocate his empire into a fleet of RV's.) World Fare, the BUStaurant--a mobile restaurant in a double decker bus--debuts tomorrow, March 16th, after having done a few test runs over t ... More >>

Will Tweet About Food: Gordon Ramsay Hits Twitter

Gordon Ramsay​As promised, Gordon Ramsay has joined the Twitter universe. The chef started tweeting yesterday, and has already tweeted his way from the UK to Los Angeles, where he had dinner at Bouchon last night and promptly started bumping into celebrities, who doubtless tweeted about bumpin ... More >>

Eat Locally, Get Abused Locally: MasterChef Los Angeles Casting Call This Sunday

If getting screamed at by celebrity chef-ranter Gordon Ramsay happens to be one of your lifelong ambitions, then you have someplace to be this Sunday. On January 31st, there will be an open casting call for the L.A. auditions of MasterChef, Ramsay's new Fox show, at The Grove Sur la Table. The show ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 1/19 - 1/22

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "But it is in Thai Town, where the hollow-stemmed water vegetable is usually translated as "morning glory," that it seems the most compelling - possibly because of the slight buzz we imagined we were getting when we tho ... More >>

Gordon Ramsay To Start Tweeting: ?@*! in 140 Characters or Less

Fox​Ah, at last some reason to read the Ritalin haiku that is Twitter. On February 1st, Gordon Ramsay will begin tweeting. In a BBC radio interview, the celebrity chef said, "I've gone on a Twitter course. I'm just going through all the stages in terms of prep, properly understanding it. I'm d ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 11/30 - 12/04

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "There's a lightness to them in just about every aspect--the shade of brown, the breading and the weight, as if a particularly large one could keep you buoyant after a boating disaster.'" Squid Ink Food Fight: Falafel O ... More >>

Gordon Ramsay's Cookalong Live Coming to LA

The foul-mouthed chef is bringing his hit UK TV show to Los Angeles, with a live one-hour special airing on Tuesday, December 15, at 9 p.m., during which he'll demonstrate how to prepare a 1970s-inspired three-course meal. If you've missed today's deadline to enter to appear on the show via webcam ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 11/16 - 11/20

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Salisbury steak is so comforting, yet so yesterday." Just Add Bacon: 5 Freaky Frozen Dinners. "One of them was an ex bank robber, one of them was an alcoholic and one of them was a drug addict. I remember one o ... More >>

Q & A With Andy Cook: The Gordon Ramsay at the London West Hollywood Chef Talks About Gordon, LA Weather & The Importance of Chip Butty

Gordon Ramsay may have gotten most of the press at his eponymous restaurant, Gordon Ramsay at the London West Hollywood, both before and after he sold it early this year, but executive chef Andy Cook has been the one behind the stoves every night. We caught up with Cook recently, shortly after he op ... More >>

Top 10 Private Dining Rooms For Your Holiday Party

The deeper we get into November, the more the mind reels with thoughts of the holidays, entertaining, and social obligations. If the idea of throwing a party appeals to you, but the idea of preparing, cooking, and cleaning up after a soiree gives you pause, we offer you this alphabetical list of Top ... More >>

British Men Spending More Time in the Kitchen: Thanks to Gordon Ramsay?

The list of things for which we have to thank Gordon Ramsay is long. Profanity in the kitchen, David Beckham at restaurant openings, and of course, the recurrent spectacle of Hell's Kitchen. Now, according to a new report out from researchers at Oxford University, the British chef can take credit fo ... More >>

A Burnt Out Case?

Gordon Ramsay, the British telechef of Fox TV's reality hit Hell's Kitchen, recently flew into L.A. with Fleet Street gossip gremlins on his tail. London's Daily Mail described his beaten-down appearance thusly:"It's normally on the way back from California that most Brits look a bit frazzled. But ... More >>

Gordon Ramsay at the London West Hollywood

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Chefs Under Fire

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