Gordon Ramsey

[Griff]

Cheers, kea.

 

[kea]

no probs griff
that sounds like a great idea wolfie, Photo and i have been dreaming bout moving to the countryside you can do front of house tho, i don't wanna get anywhere near the bloody customers

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I used to eat and drink in Whitelocks when I worked in Leeds in the 90's ...

There must have been a fair few of us in Leeds at the same time, going to the same pubs, oblivious to each other. Small world indeed

 

[kyser_soze]

SB - he makes more money from the restaurants, and having eaten in two of his restaurants, he could be whipping serbian midgets with scabies in the kitchen* for all I care, he's one of the best chef's whose food I've eaten.

*Joke, irony, sarcasm, hyperbole...if the dwarves had scabies I wouldn't be there...

 

[aqua]

no probs griff
that sounds like a great idea wolfie, Photo and i have been dreaming bout moving to the countryside you can do front of house tho, i don't wanna get anywhere near the bloody customers

see I'd love to do front of house too as well as the kitchen

<toddles off dreaming>

 

[Juice Terry]

Did anyone fucking else feel that he just fucking well used the fucking f word way too fucking much, I mean I'm no fucking prude and am not fucking averse to fucking swearing a bit when the fucking situation fucking warrants it but when every other fucking word is fucking it just loses all fucking meaning and fucking detracts from the fucking level of fucking communication?

....you fucks

Good tv though, scallops and black pudding, utter class

 

[kea]

i actually talk like that most of the time so i felt strangely at home watching him

 

[Juice Terry]

Is it cos you worked in a kitchen?

Actually i spent years working on building sites which must have the worst language out of any work place so I should be used to it. I thought GR was putting it on a bit though "Ooh I'm on TV, everyone expects me to say fuck a lot so I better not disappoint them"

 

[poet]

Everyone who said that he's a bullying wanker have missed the point. He's a perfect model of how to motivate staff. He swears constantly, throws things around, gets aggressive, but that just makes his praise more valuable. When the 'head chef' actually got something right for once, and Gordon kissed him on the head, that was 100 times more valuable than the same gesture from a nice person. It's how all the best military officers work, all the best trainers and coaches. Your respect and praise is only worth anything if it is earned.

 

[white rabbit]

Not all of us crave approval.

 

[Orangesanlemons]

To be honest GR did the guy (and any potential customers/victims) a favour in the long run. He's now working as a junior chef in a decent restaurant nearby, and by all accounts doing well. The shitstorm will die down in a few weeks, and he'll be working and learning at a level better suited to him. Give it a few years and sure he'll be up to scratch.

Scallops and black pudding is a bollocks combo tho' - don't go there folks

 

[pagan]

The only time I've met the guy he was really nice to me and Mrs P even tho' she had a playful go at him.
He may be a great chef but giving a bunch of veggie and vegans soup made with chicken stock 'for a laugh' is tantamount to giving a Hindu beef or a Muslim pork.I'd eat his food but I have NO respect for the guy.
You can be a great chef AND a nice guy (Heston Blumenthal, Jean Novelli, Raymond Blanc, Rick Stein etc etc). Ramsay is a cunt.
Fucking good TV show though.

 

[Pie 1]

He may be a bit of an arse, but his food is by far the best I have ever eaten in my life.
Plus, he went up very high in my estimation after he kicked the appaling AA Gill out of his restaurant along his guests, Joan Collins & a couple of other selbs. Apparently came out of the kitchen asked them to leave and in answer to Gill's "why" said "cause you're a wanker & I don't cook for wankers if I don't want to" or some thing along those lines.

 

[Dubversion]

part 2,

and i enjoyed it an unreasonable amount, i was really rooting for them in the end (apart from that head chef)... i agree, pomegranite risotto sounds fucking vile though. i know i'm being manipulated and i know ramsay is playing it up a bit, but i don't care for once.

i just really wish (and this may just be me) that they'd lose the 'supper jazz' reggae all the way through it..

 

[editor]

Everyone who said that he's a bullying wanker have missed the point. He's a perfect model of how to motivate staff.

Indeed. I watched the show tonight and he may well be an arrogant shit, but he knows his stuff and he certainly knows how to get the best out of his staff.

You could see the motivation, pride, confidence and interest rising in the kitchen staff and getting the chef to fuck off for the night so that they could take over was a stroke of genius.

Mind you, the speech the chef gave on his return, "you're mine"..., was truly excruciating TV!

 

[hendo]

Mind you, the speech the chef gave on his return, "you're mine"..., was truly excruciating TV!

It was like "The Office". I wonder if he's still there.

Edited Later:

He is!!!

http://www.cumbriafoodfestival.net/business_detail.asp?bid=79

 

[ernestolynch]

Hey that was a quality programme, gutted i missed last weeks one. That young couple have a ready-made video cv with the compliments Ramsay gave them. He makes great telly - who'd you prefer, Ramsay or some prat like Dirty Den?

Wolfie - what's the restaurant for sale near you?

Here's a selection from the current menu at Glass House:

A special Taste of Cumbria menu (at a special price), created by head chef Richard Collins - four starters, four mains, four desserts - and one using all local produce will be available at lunch and dinner. Dishes will include Cartmel Valley smoked salmon saffron risotto, warm salad of Holker Hall pigeon with baked cherry tomatoes and raspberry vinaigrette, grilled vegetable and glazed Thornby Moor goat’s cheese served on a walnut crostini; roast Penrith free range chicken with fondant potato, spinach and baked plum tomatoes and red wine jus; pan fried Esthwaite trout with tomato and lime dressing, crushed olive new potatoes; braised Herdwick lamb with sautéed cabbage, roast parsnips and dauphinnoise potatoes

Wot no Pomegranate Seed Risotto?

 

[Furvert]

i quite fancy gordon ramsay. is that wrong?

 

[LilMissHissyFit]

I'd do him, no problems

 

[Hollis]

I've always thought Ramsey was a complete arrogant wanker.. But after watching it last night I'm beginning to like the bloke.. He's actually an incredibly good manager.

 

[Dr Delirium]

Pomegranate seeds in a fuckin resotto! He must be off his fuckin rocker!
That bloke rocks!

 

[kea]

yeah i'd do gordon

last nite was great, haven't enjoyed a programme so much in ages. really hope that young couple can ditch the bookshop cos they were both good and they deserve success. if i was them i'd be on the phone to ramsay going 'oi you said you'd employ us, gizza job then!'

 

[pilchardman]

No! The bookshop is the way to go.

Oh. No. Wait; I want a bookshop. Wonder how I can contact them....

 

[Jenerys]

To be honest, though, I don't think he treats his employees that badly: people are falling over themselves to work under him.

Oh yes he does
My ex worked for him at both Ramsays and then Claridges. He had to be in at 7 a.m. and worked straight through til 1 a.m. with about 30 to 40 mins break all day. For this he got paid around 16K a year. Living in north London as the ex does and travelling first to Chelsea, the poor sod would almost be getting up before he was going to bed, as it were. It was a nightmare when he got his mo-ped stolen and had to rely on public transport.

However, Ramsays is the 2nd best restaurant in the world, Gordon is the only 3 Michelin starred restauranteur in London (I think) and the ex gained valueable experience.

And I used to eat very very very very well And chefs ARE good with their hands tee hee

 

[aqua]

thats what I thought ed too

that chef needed a slap

mind you, I would have taken Ramsey up when he told those 2 they could work in his kitchens

 

[Idaho]

Looks like Tuesday nights at 9pm are block booked at castle Idaho. I think this week's one was almost better than last weeks. Ramsey seemed to wave about a bit more carrot and less stick.

You can't help but admire someone who is that masterful. At the beginning when the manager was throwing a strop and telling Ramsey that he could buy the place off him - it just seemed to bounce off Ramsey and he remarked to the waiter in full earshot that the manager was 'about to piss his pants'.

 

[Wolfie]

... Wolfie - what's the restaurant for sale near you?
....

it used to be called Blossoms, in Borth-Y-Gest

I missed the first one and the second one is on tonight here (S4C land) - I'm really looking forward to it.



PS - I can always send you copies of the Caernarfon and Denbigh Herald erno, so you can keep up with local comings and goings

 

[aqua]

I'll fight the lot of you for gordon

 

[DaveCinzano]

I'll fight the lot of you for gordon's

and i thought you were a vodka wench

 

[aqua]

vodka, gin, ramsey I'll have them all