http://www.observer.com/term/gordon-ramsay en http://www.observer.com/2007/health-department-not-overreacting-zagat-survey-finds-restaurant-crackdown-warranted 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: <em>Stay the course!</em> <p class="MsoNormal">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...</p> http://www.observer.com/2007/health-department-not-overreacting-zagat-survey-finds-restaurant-crackdown-warranted#comments Real Estate Brooklyn Danny Meyer Dom DeMarco Food Gordon Ramsay Graydon Carter The Real Estate ZAGAT Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:29:31 -0400 http://www.observer.com/2007/health-department-not-overreacting-zagat-survey-finds-restaurant-crackdown-warranted http://www.observer.com/2007/midtown-kitchen-nightmare <img src="/files/article/Shott-MartinHyde1H.jpg" />Martin Hyde has his own recurring nightmares about <em>Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares</em>, the popular BBC reality TV show starring the famously silver-tongued Scottish chef Gordon Ramsay, which is being adapted for American audiences to air this fall on Fox. <p class="text">“I’m in my restaurant and Gordon Ramsay is attacking me, and there’s all these cameras and lights,” he described the disturbing dream sequence. “Then I wake up and realize it wasn’t a dream.”</p> ... http://www.observer.com/2007/midtown-kitchen-nightmare#comments Style Gordon Ramsay Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:42:09 -0400 http://www.observer.com/2007/midtown-kitchen-nightmare http://www.observer.com/2007/grilling-gordon <img src="/files/article/Frey-GordonRamsay4H.jpg" />Recently on FOX’s reality cooking contest <em>Hell’s Kitchen</em>, Gordon Ramsay, the multiple-Michelin-Star winning Scottish chef, screamed at Melissa, a struggling contestant with a droopy face and a Cro-Magnon tangle of reddish hair: “Listen, listen … If you just shut the <em>fuck</em> up for thirty seconds you might learn something! … Now stop being a stubborn little bitch and fucking move your ass! ” <p class="text">A few days later, on a broadcast of...</p> http://www.observer.com/2007/grilling-gordon#comments Style Gordon Ramsay Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:22:16 -0400 http://www.observer.com/2007/grilling-gordon http://www.observer.com/node/53069 <p>“You only get one shot at New York,” Gordon Ramsay told me when I interviewed him in London two years ago. “That will be the biggest test of my life. And until I have a crack at it, I’m sleeping with one eye open. But one thing I’m not afraid of is intimidation.”</p> That’s good, because critics already had their knives out within days of his opening in the London NYC Hotel six... http://www.observer.com/node/53069#comments Style Dining Out Dubai Gordon Ramsay London London NYC Hotel Sun, 24 Dec 2006 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.observer.com/node/53069 http://www.observer.com/node/36463 <img src="/files/article/122506_article_moira2.jpg" />“You only get one shot at New York,” Gordon Ramsay told me when I interviewed him in London two years ago. “That will be the biggest test of my life. And until I have a crack at it, I’m sleeping with one eye open. But one thing I’m not afraid of is intimidation.” That’s good, because critics already had their knives out within days of his opening in the London NYC Hotel six weeks... http://www.observer.com/node/36463#comments Style Dining Out Dubai Gordon Ramsay London London NYC Hotel Sun, 24 Dec 2006 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.observer.com/node/36463 http://www.observer.com/node/47857 <p>Dumonet's New French Chef</p> Keeps It Classicn The newly refurbished restaurant at the Carlyle is like the set of a George Kaufman play. At lunchtime recently, it seemed that the entire cast had been assembled in the chocolate-brown dining room, which has a marble fireplace, a swirling Art Deco carpet and hunting prints on the walls. In one corner, a young man in polo shirt and khakis, hunched over a magazine, looked just right for... http://www.observer.com/node/47857#comments Style Bobby Short Dining Out George Kaufman Gordon Ramsay Jean-Louis Dumonet Sun, 27 Jul 2003 20:00:00 -0400 http://www.observer.com/node/47857 http://www.observer.com/node/47262 <p>Meal of a Lifetime May Be</p> Cure for Orange-Alert Blues Fling your paper down in disgust: The world is falling apart and here I am, eating a six-course black truffle dinner at Alain Ducasse! I was invited by a friend who felt that we needed cheering up. The smell of truffles, which come into season in Périgord in the winter, is as pervasive in Alain Ducasse's dining room as Gauloises in a French bistro. When... http://www.observer.com/node/47262#comments Style Alain Ducasse Champagne Veuve Clicquot Dining Out Frederic Robert Gordon Ramsay Sun, 16 Mar 2003 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.observer.com/node/47262 http://www.observer.com/node/43607 <p>Papillon is named after the Steve McQueen movie about a prisoner desperate to escape from Devil's Island. The owners, four Irishmen, hit upon it one night while tossing around ideas at the White Horse Tavern next door. But its name no more describes this small, polished restaurant on Hudson Street in the West Village than, say, Bullitt or The Great Escape. Framed film stills near the bar depict McQueen as the convict with rotting...</p> http://www.observer.com/node/43607#comments Style American Express Company Darren Walsh Dining Out Gordon Ramsay Steve McQueen Sun, 12 Nov 2000 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.observer.com/node/43607 http://www.observer.com/node/40979 <p>The trains were late, according to the message delivered with a gentle Caribbean lilt over the platform loudspeaker, owing to a delay. So when I arrived for lunch at the hottest new restaurant in town, the friend I was meeting was already at the table. The maître d' showed me through the small, sleek and understated dining room, which was done up in pastel colors and decorated with large glass ornaments, a frosted glass...</p> http://www.observer.com/node/40979#comments Style Dining Out Gordon Ramsay London Oscar Wilde Ralph Fiennes Sun, 17 Jan 1999 19:00:00 -0500 http://www.observer.com/node/40979