Gordon Ramsay

New Zagat: Meyer Tops Meyer, Diners Hail Health Department, Brooklyn Earns a Map, Graydon Who?

The results of the latest Zagat Survey of New York restaurants are in, with input from a record 34,678 diners, and respondents have issued a resounding mandate to the city’s Health Department: Stay the course!

Asked “Do you think the recent temporary shuttering of some NYC restaurants for health violations is…?” only 15 percent answered “[a]n overreaction,” while a whopping 65 percent said “[w]arranted.” (Another 20 percent were undecided.)

The overwhelming support for the continuing Health Department crackdown on the city’s food-service sector comes on the heels of last month’s New York Post report, which found that city health inspectors had flunked 25 percent of all 28,955 eateries they inspected during fiscal year 2007.

Other findings from the brand-spanking new Zagat 2008 New York City Restaurants guide:  read more »

Midtown Kitchen Nightmare

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Martin Hyde.

Dillons got a Ramsay makeover, and business seems worse than ever.  read more »

Grilling Gordon

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Superstar chef Gordon Ramsay is about to add another Fox reality show to his growing media girth. Is it too late for him to get back in the kitchen?  read more »

No Nightmare in This Kitchen: Gordon Ramsay Gets It Right

“You only get one shot at New York,” Gordon Ramsay told me when I interviewed him in London two  read more »

No Nightmare in This Kitchen: Gordon Ramsay Gets It Right

The latest notch in Gordon Ramsay
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The latest notch in Gordon Ramsay

“You only get one shot at New York,” Gordon Ramsay told me when I interviewed him in Lon  read more »

Escape Pretension Island at Pomp-Free Papillon

Papillon is named after the Steve McQueen movie about a prisoner desperate to escape from Devil's Is  read more »

London's Tough Chef Ramsay, Serving Up Dainty Delicacies

The trains were late, according to the message delivered with a gentle Caribbean lilt over the platf  read more »