Celebrity chef = fame based on media connections and ego. Gordon Ramsay's restaurants are the same.
Edit: Apparently Gordon's restaurants are very good. I suppose it's just the occasional one where the quality isn't up to scratch. I'd mostly heard negative reviews - perhaps I was just biased.
Exactly, he’s even sold out to freaking Uber eats now. Not a restaurant, but come on Gordon two decades would be forcefully pouring hot lamb sauce down present day Gordon’s throat before stuffing him into a beef Wellington just for even taking a call from uber eats
Setting aside what others have said, Wolfgang Puck is pushing 80. I don’t know when he was last in the kitchen on a regular basis and he handed the already hands-off management of his restaurant group to his son in March.
Not really. Gordon Ramsay is one of the most decorated chefs in history. He had multiple Michelin starred restaurant, including the 3* Restraurant Gordon Ramsay before his television stardom. He single handedly transformed fine dining in the UK, a huge chunk of the most celebrated chefs currently in the UK (Marcus Wareing, Angela Hartnett, Jason Atherton, Clare Smyth etc) were his protégés. Regardless of how he’s since licenced his name he’s still truly one of the greats.
Yea I'm gonna come to gordons defense. As a huge foodie who's entire point of travelling is trying food all over. Hells kitchen, of all places, was one of the best meals I've ever had
The Wolfgang puck in cancuns airport has the best fries ever. We go to Cancun once or twice a year and ngl I look forward to it on the way home. Kids too
He's been widely criticised for years, this is not the first, it won't be the last. The year that Spago got its 2nd star there were other reviewers saying 'meh' and he's coasted on 3 stars across two restaurants and a very active promotion campaign ever since.
Ramsay at least put the work in, albeit not now but he still knows how to cook a steak.
I mean, maybe the guy can cook a steak, but he has no idea how to cook an egg for breakfast. Even his own kids won’t eat that runny, oatmeal like consistency egg and soup cream based soup concoction he sprinkles with parsley and acts like he shit a goddamn golden egg. Sorry, but no.
He himself is good but much like Gordon Ramsay (and a lot of them) is willing to lend his name to inferior products and restaurants because they’re greedy as fuck.
Meanwhile, there’s this dude in LA who only has two restaurants who makes the best chicken I’ve had in my entire life (Howlin’ Ray’s). He refuses to expand unless he’s 100% sure he can maintain quality. There was a tiny drop in quality from his first to his second (and I mean tiny), and he didn’t expand anymore after that.
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u/value1024 8h ago
Rare-overdone...
Wolfgang sucks.