Gordon, you don't have to wait. Just go!Photo: Wireimage
Gordon Ramsay in Dubai: 'I'm moving to the Palm' [Time Out Dubai via Arabian Business]
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Gordon Ramsay Eyes Dubai As Possible Sanctuary
De Niro to Open Nobu Hotel; Start Stockpiling Food Today
• Robert De Niro plans to open Nobu Hotel — a Japanese-themed hotel-condo complex housing an outpost of the famous restaurant — in the financial district. [NYP]
• Gordon Ramsay was expected to stop by the launch of Alain Ducasse’s Benoit last night. [Mouthing Off/Food & Wine]
• In case you missed Law and Order: SVU on Tuesday night, Robin Williams played a creep who also happened to be a locavore. What are the writers implying here? [Serious Eats]
Market Diner to Reopen; Gordon Ramsay Signing Books Tonight in Midtown
Chelsea: Steven Trummer of 202, in the Chelsea Market, has left town and taken his mixological magic with him. [Snack]
Chinatown: Mei Wai Lah has closed, apparently forever. The DOH visit was seemingly the proverbial “nail in the coffin.” [Eater]
Hell’s Kitchen: The long-closed Market Diner will reopen in June. [amNY]
Herald Square: Rong Bao Fast Food closes, and a city mourns. Not. [Midtown Lunch]
Midtown East: Gordon Ramsay will be signing his new book at the 57th Street Borders tonight. [Metromix]
Park Slope: Franny’s is now open on Mondays [Strong Buzz]
Gordon Ramsay Called a Fraud, Yet Again
Clinton and Ray Team Up for Fund-raiser; What Lidia Served the Pope
• Rachael Ray and Bill Clinton are opening a pop-up restaurant Monday night in the Barbuto space to benefit her Yum-o! organization. [NYDN]
• Pinkberry’s “all natural” frozen yogurt contains a lot of ingredients that aren’t so natural. [NYT]
• Stephen Mancini produces homemade grappa, limoncello, and wine in the cellar of Union Square Café. [NYS]
‘Lazy Tosser’ Finds Energy to Sue Gordon Ramsay for 500,000 Pounds
Never stop suing Gordon Ramsay! If only on principle!Photo: Getty Images
Gordon Ramsay sued for £500,000 by restaurant manager he branded a 'lazy t*****' on US show [Daily Mail]
Related: Gordon Ramsay to Inflict ‘Kitchen Nightmare’ on Black Pearl
PETA Wants Frankenmeat; Ramsay Loves Fast Food
• PETA is getting involved in the Frankenmeat debate by offering a $1 million to the “first person to come up with a method to produce commercially viable quantities of in vitro meat at competitive prices by 2012.” Yeah, good luck with that. [NYT]
• Mark from Top Chef worked Public’s table at last week’s Taste of the Lower East Side. [Gothamist]
• Playboy has launched a nationwide search for Olive Garden servers to pose in an upcoming pictorial unimaginatively called "Girls of Olive Garden." [NYP]
Vote for the Hottest Cook and the Hottest Crowd
We'll take Bobby, every time.Photo: Patrick McMullan
Who Would You Rather: Celebrity Chef Edition [Nerve]
Dear DBTH: Female Talent [DBTH]
Gordon Ramsay's Flaws Are Not His Own; Cockroach Drops In at Waverly
• Notoriously hot-headed Gordon Ramsay claims he doesn’t like to swear and blames his potty mouth on the industry: “[A]ny chef would be a hypocrite if they didn’t admit to swearing in the kitchen.” [NYDN]
• A cockroach supposedly fell on a Brazilian C-lister’s head the other night at the Waverly Inn, but the restaurant suspects the story may have been a ploy to get a better table. By the Brazilian, not the roach. [NYP]
• An economic downturn doesn’t mean tough restaurant reservations will be any easier to score, and if restaurateurs follow Drew Nieporent’s lead, entrée prices won’t be declining. [NYT]
Marco Pierre White Coming to American TV — Try to Stay Awake
Say hello to your host, Marco Pierre White!Photo: Ian Derry
Marco Pierre White Tapped for NBC's New 'Top Chef'/Hell's Kitchen Killer [FishbowlNY/Mediabistro]
Related: Batali, Bourdain, and Ramsay Mentor to Finally Take on America?
Cheap Lobsters, Dancing Girls Join Gordon Ramsay As Harbingers of Doom
Signs that a seafood restaurant may be in trouble, in order of severity: adding a $20 whole lobster to the menu; adding a free burlesque show; having Gordon Ramsay come into your restaurant to torment you for his reality-TV show, Kitchen Nightmares. We knew about number three, but now it turns out, via Metromix, that symptoms one and two have appeared at Black Pearl, the troubled seafood restaurant across from Hill Country. And you know what? Conditions sound pretty damn entertaining. As long as Ramsay, the burlesque show, and the lobster aren't physically connected in any way.
Black Pearl Lobster & Burlesque Tuesdays [Metromix NY]
Related: Gordon Ramsay to Inflict ‘Kitchen Nightmare’ on Black Pearl
Fake Ramsay Takes On Fraudulent Robert Irvine in Pseudo-Blog
We usually enjoy Newsgroper’s Gordon Ramsay blog considerably more than the man himself, but the current entry, in which “Ramsay” gives it to counterfeit knight Robert Irvine, is especially enjoyable. As Irvine was just fired from the Food Network for his impostures, and Ramsay himself is something of a put-on, a guy pretending to be Ramsay berating Irvine for pretending to be a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order just seems right.
Gordon Ramsay's Blog: Liar, liar your apron’s on fire [Newsgroper]
The New Face of ‘Hell's Kitchen’ Not So Hellish Anymore
Marco, you are no Gordon Ramsay. And we're grateful.Photo: Ian Derry
Hell’s Kitchen (Review) [Sydney Morning Herald]
Gordon Ramsay to Inflict ‘Kitchen Nightmare’ on Black Pearl
Gordo is back and ready to feed.Photo courtesy Fox
Related: Gordon Ramsay Even a Jerk on Other People's TV Shows
A Dovetail Spy Scandal; Gordo Ruins New Jersey Valentine's Day
A Food & Wine contributing editor has been working as a hostess at Dovetail, the new three-star restaurant, for the past two months. Part of her arrangement with chef John Fraser? To spot food writers and alert the kitchen, but apparently she was no help in pointing out Frank Bruni. [Mouthing Off/Food & Wine]
Shake Shack and Burger Joint will face off tonight at the South Beach Food & Wine Festival for the title of champion in the “Burger Bash.” [Diner’s Journal/NYT]
Landmarc at the Time Warner Center is throwing an Oscar party of sorts this Sunday, featuring a five-course tasting menu and two flat-screen TVs in the dining room. [Zagat]
Batali's Celebrity Cookbook; Gisele Offends Football Fans With Cabernet
For the second year in a row, Barilla has released a downloadable cookbook featuring Mario Batali’s recipes for cooking for celebs like Natalie Portman and Stanley Tucci. You may have to fill out a stupid survey to access it, but for every download Barilla is donating $1 to America’s Second Harvest. [Mouthing Off/Food & Wine]
Food Network chef Robert Irvine, whose bulging muscles put together meals on Dinner: Impossible, turns out to be huge liar, having fabricated a past that involves being a knight in England and being a full-fledged White House chef. [St. Petersburg Times via Gawker]
Irritable chef Gordon Ramsay likes to relax with a Sunday supper of roast beef, over which he likes to emphasize manners and social skills with his children. [WSJ]
Food Network to Publish Magazine?; Food-Porn Photos for Sale
Hearst Publications is supposedly in talks with the Food Network to publish a new food magazine and has been stealing editors from Every Day With Rachael Ray for months. The only problem? The channel’s big stars don’t seem to be a part of the publication. [Mixed Media/Portfolio]
Soto chef Sotohiro Kosugi responds to fears of too much mercury in tuna. “Eat with balance. Balance of meals is the key to a healthy life.” [Bottomless Dish/Citysearch]
Related: Sushi Eaters Face Tuna Fears
Neil Ferguson, Marco Pierre White, Gordon Ramsey, Jamie Oliver, and others are leading a full-on British culinary invasion on our shores. [Chicago Tribune]
Shake Shack Reopens Today; Fabio Trabocchi's Last Meal
Sweet glory, Shake Shack reopens today at 11:30! You can call ahead to place your order, but you won’t be enjoying the new heaters until next week. [Eater]
The British agree: Adam Platt's term “haute barnyard” defines the prevailing dining trend. [Guardian]
Related: The Haute Barnyard Hall of Fame
The manager of Sarabeth’s on Central Park South caught a 50-year-old thief taking $27 from her pocketbook over the weekend. [NYP]
Gordon Ramsay Even a Jerk on Other People's TV Shows
A very contrite Gordon Ramsay was on display in Scotland’s Sunday Herald about a week ago — “We got screwed,” he says of Gordon Ramsay at the London’s opening, begging for sympathy because the ceiling caved in. No matter, Gordo is on to other things, like a restaurant in L.A. that will open in May and might — according to a rave review of Ramsay’s New York eatery in the Sunday Times of London — be backed by the Beckhams! The Times also mentions that Gordo might appear on The Simpsons, but will his cameo match his walk-on in the Extras Christmas special, in which a washed-up Andy Millman begs Gordo to get him into London’s Ivy restaurant?
To Hell’s Kitchen and Back Again [Sunday Herald of Scotland]
Gordon Ramsay in New York [Sunday Times of London]
Ten Moments to Remember From 2007
Could this year have been any more ridiculous?Photo courtesy of Esquire
The Case of the Accused Prostitutes at Maze
That was no prostitute at the bar at Maze! Was it?Photo: Corbis
We make no judgments on Grub Street. We got this e-mail earlier today and read it with raised eyebrows and no great credulousness:
My husband and I were at the New York restaurant, Maze @ the London Hotel tonight 12-18-07. We were so upset. He had four clients he was taking out. At one point one of the clients noticed that there were two prostitutes at the bar, trying to pick up men. When my husband's guest complained to the staff, they became hostile and asked us to leave. When we talked to the hotel staff, they informed us that, "This happens all the time, You need to talk to the management of Gordon Ramsey." We were very upset — how could they let that go on? It's almost like they were getting a cut of their action. We will never dine at a Gordon Ramsey Rest. We spend $800, and had to watch a common prostitute pick up her johns. It was very ugly, shame on Gordon Ramsey and Shame on the London.
Shame indeed! But we have no idea if it was even true. We can never tell prostitutes in hotel bars even when we’re talking to them, let alone from at a table faraway. So we asked the restaurant’s PR agency, who got back to us with this response.
Platt Sees Only Disaster and Peril for Out-of-Town Chefs
Charlie Trotter is coming for you, Adam Platt!Photo: AFP / Getty Images
Allen & Delancey's Not So Healthy Beef, Cabbage, and Onion
Gordo Blog Better Than the Real Thing; Water Trend More Ridiculous
A true innovator has started a mock Gordon Ramsay blog with such posts as “What? Emeril’s boobs aren’t nice enough?” But when will someone step in to fill in the gaps at Chodoblog? [News Groper via Serious Eats]
Related: Food Network, Emeril No Longer Feeling the Love
No holiday parties at Chumley’s this year; according to the owner Steve Shlopak, the space has no ceiling and no floor. [NYO]
Even after a top-chef shuffle and “showdown between Fiamma, L’Impero and Alto … all three places have come through recent turmoil, and the good news is that they’re better than they were before,” says Steve Cuozzo. [NYP]
‘Top Chef’ Bitch Opens Restaurant; Gordo Looking for Victims
Former Top Chef contestant Dave “don’t call me a bitch, bitch” Martin (Season One) has opened his own restaurant on West 42nd Street called Crave, and he’s serving comfort food. [Zagat]
Hakata Tonton is bringing its love of pig's feet to the West Village — even dessert has the collagen-packed delicacy. [Eat for Victory/VV]
Alain Ducasse’s wine bar Adour at the St. Regis Hotel is set to open in January. [Decanter]
Related: Essex House and St. Regis Restaurants: Maybe Next Year!
Grape Nuts [NYM]
What to Expect on Your Job Interview With Gordon Ramsay
If they're not here, they don't matter!
Meyer and Batali Face Off; Gordo's Advice on the Closer
Meyer, Batali, Nieporent, and others compete to see who’ll serve VIPs at the new Jets/Giants stadium. Interesting! And how does this affect Meyer’s rumored plans to take Shea Stadium by ShackStorm? [NYP]
Gordo’s first-date fail-safe: Take your girl to Ducasse’s place in Monaco, then tell her what you really want is roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. Wow — the guy's like something straight out of The Pick-Up Artist! [Forbes]
Naked Chef Jamie Oliver, in town to promote his book, says his feelings are hurt from being slagged by Bourdain: “You rate someone [like Mr. Bourdain] and then they think you're a bit of a pussy. It's not very inspiring.” [Globe and Mail]
Gordon Ramsay Will Attempt to Feed the Spice Girls
Screamy Spice?Photo:Getty Images
It's come to our attention that Gordo will be creating "special menus" for the Spice Girls' forthcoming world tour. Gordon Ramsay — the guy who, according to the Brit tabloids, agreed to look after Posh Spice's pet lambs, and then immediately told the press that he planned to kill and serve them (this was possibly the only instance in which we've ever felt any personal warmth for the man). You'd think after that baby-sheep-killing business, the Spices would know better. Of course, since the Spice Girls probably don’t actually eat anything but Mentos, and both parties are no doubt looking for some cheap press, it’s all for the best. We've one request, however: Is there any chance that Ramsay could just get it over with and become a Spice Girl himself? He's already got the hair and flair, after all. And any thoughts on what sort of Spice he'd be? We're sure he's open to suggestions.
Ramsay creates tour menus for Spice Girls [Digital Spy]
On His Birthday, We Look Forward to Gordo's Next Year
Gord's Gold: better luck in the next 40?Photo: Getty
Gordo Casting Restaurateurs; Thomas Keller Feels for Celebrity Chefs
Gordo’s back on Fox TV for another season of Kitchen Nightmares, and he’s looking for a floundering restaurateur to belittle on national TV. [Eater]
It’s hard out there for a chef, according to Thomas Keller: “No longer are critically-acclaimed chefs allowed — as they might have been even ten years ago — to call it a day after opening a single successful restaurant. Instead, he said, food wizards like him are … expected to pen best-sellers, give lectures, judge reality TV shows and host benefits like the one he gave last night.” [NYO]
The massive, multistory Pop Burger at 14 East 58th Street will start serving baby crab cakes and grilled filet mignon in addition to burger boxes by mid-November. [Strong Buzz]
Related: Massive New Pop Burger Popping Up in Midtown
Gordon Ramsay Gives At Least Two Swearwords About Frank Bruni
We feel your pain, Gordo!Photo: WireImage
Ramsay In Attack On NY Food Critics [Daily Star]
Gordon Ramsay Attacks ‘Unqualified’ Critics [Telegraph]
The Real Life Anton Egos: Inside the Vicious World of the Food Critics [Independent]
Related: Could Gordon Ramsay's Act Get Any More Tired? Apparently So.