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In 2007 Gordon Ramsay earned the distinction of being one of only three chefs in the UK to hold three Michelin Stars at one time (he has been awarded a total of 16 Stars, placing him 3rd in the world for accumulation of Michelin Stars). Early in Ramsay’s career, he worked for Marco Pierre White at Harvey’s, and Albert Roux at Le Gavroche in London, and Hotel Diva in France. In1998, Ramsay opened his first restaurant called Gordon Ramsay at Royal Hospital Road. Royal Hospital Road did extremely well, earning three Michelin Stars and from there Ramsay began opening restaurants all over the world. Ramsay has featured on numerous culinary television shows, made popular by his perfectionism and his infamously bad language.

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Ramsay takes £2m bite out of profits

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Top chef reclaims his crown

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Chef Ian Pengelley's career took a nose-dive last year and his critics said he'd never recover. But he has proved them all wrong by winning a Tatler Restaurant Award.... more
  • Facts
  • During an episode of The F-Word, Ramsay prepared meals for inmates in Doncaster Prison in Marshgate. Ramsay was so impressed by the speed at which a particular inmate chopped vegetables that he offered him a job at one of his restaurants following the prisoner’s release in 2007.
  • Ramsay once threw famous food critic A.A. Gill out of his restaurant, leading Gill to remark “Ramsay is a wonderful chef, just a really second rate human being’
  • Ramsay was appointed OBE in the 2006 Honours List.
  • Ramsay went to college to study hotel management which he describes as ‘an accident, a complete accident’. Apparently the decision was made after the realisation that he hadn’t gained enough O-Levels to join the police force or the Royal Navy.
  • In 2006 Ramsay was voted the most influential person in UK hospitality by the Caterersearch 100 List
  • Ramsay is a consultant for Singapore Airlines on its ‘International Culinary Panel’

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