List of restaurants owned or operated by Gordon Ramsay
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Gordon Ramsay is a British chef, restauranteur, writer, television personality and food critic. He currently owns and/or operates restaurants across Europe, North America and Asia. Ramsay founded his first restaurant chain, Gordon Ramsay Restaurants, in 1997. He has owned and operated a series of restaurants since he first became head chef of
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in 1993. He owned 25% of that restaurant, where he earned his first two
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. Following the dismissal of protege
Marcus Wareing Marcus Wareing (born 29 June 1970) is an English celebrity chef who is currently Chef-Owner of the one-Michelin-starred restaurant Marcus (formerly Marcus Wareing at the Berkeley) in Knightsbridge. Since 2014, Wareing has been a judge on '' Mast ...
from sister restaurant L'Oranger, Ramsay organised a staff walkout from both restaurants and subsequently took them to open up Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, at
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, London. His self-titled restaurant went on to become his first and only three Michelin star restaurant. Ramsay has installed a number of proteges in restaurants. Both
Angela Hartnett Angela Maria Hartnett (born September 1968) is an English Michelin-starred chef. A protégée of Gordon Ramsay who became well known by her appearances on British television, she was Chef-Patron at Angela Hartnett at The Connaught in London. Cu ...
and
Jason Atherton Jason Atherton (born 6 September 1971) is an English chef and restaurateur. His flagship restaurant Pollen Street Social gained a Michelin Star in 2011, its opening year. He was the Executive Chef at Gordon Ramsay's Michelin starred ''Maze'' i ...
worked at Verre before moving back to London to The Connaught and Maze respectively. Atherton left to open his own restaurant, and Hartnett purchased Murano from Ramsay in 2010. Wareing was made head chef of London based restaurant, Pétrus. It went on to win two Michelin stars, but in 2008 the two chefs fell out when Wareing kept the restaurant premises and the stars, while Ramsay received rights to the name. The restaurant was renamed Marcus Wareing at the Berkeley, while in 2010 the new Pétrus by Gordon Ramsay was opened. With the success of his Emmy-nominated 2005 reality TV program ''Hell's Kitchen'' in the USA, Ramsay launched a series of fine-dining restaurants based on the show he's hosted. The first Gordon Ramsay Hell's Kitchen restaurant location opened in front of Caesars Palace on the
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in January 2018. Additional restaurant locations of Hell's Kitchen have since opened, with more announced to follow. Ramsay has also sought to create other fine-dining restaurant chains (such as Gordon Ramsay Steak and the now-defunct Maze), as well as casual dining restaurants, both singly (as in The Fat Cow or Opal) and in chains (such as Street Pizza, Gordon Ramsay Fish & Chips, and the now-defunct Maze Grill). Ramsay plans for UK expansion between 2021 and 2025 to reach 50 additional sites. Additionally, his restaurant group looks to open 200 locations across Asia during the same five year period. To fund the growth of his American restaurant business, in June 2019 Ramsay struck a five-year investment deal with
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for $100 million, giving Ramsay and Lion each a 50% ownership in Gordon Ramsay North America (GRNA). GRNA's CEO, Norman Abdallah, has signaled the company's intention to open 75 new company-owned locations across the United States between 2022 and 2026.


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Gordon Ramsay official websiteGordon Ramsay Restaurants official website
{{Lists of restaurants Gordon Ramsay Michelin Guide starred restaurants