Gordon Ramsay
Gordon Ramsay
Gordon James Ramsay, OBEis a Scottish-born British chef, restaurateur, and television personality. His restaurants have been awarded 16 Michelin stars in total and currently hold 6. His signature restaurant, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in Chelsea, London, has held 3 Michelin stars since 2001. Ramsay is known for presenting TV programmes about competitive cookery and food, such as the British series Hell's Kitchen, The F Word, and Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, along with the American versions of Hell's Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, MasterChef, MasterChef...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionChef
Date of Birth8 November 1966
CityJohnstone, Scotland
Chelsea has always been a foodie heaven and it will never change in that respect.
I quite like that jeopardy, those up-against-the-wall odds. I don't like it when it's over-comfortable, too easy, something that can be done in two or three weeks. I like a challenge.
We are about creating a new wave of talent. We are the Manchester United of kitchens now. Am I playing full-time in the kitchen? I am a player-coach.
I'm quite a chauvinistic person.
We have never done anything in a cynical fake way
I grew up in a funny way.
The secret is to make sure the business is running to perfection, with or without me.
I came up from a difficult background.
I didn't get depressed, I don't get depressed.
I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today.
I'm not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.
I don't run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.
My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.
I was a naturally aggressive left-back, a cut-throat tackler.