‘Over everyone towers Ramsay, barking orders, spraying expletives across the room… tasting, shouting (“Fucking unbelievable!”), calming (“Guys, guys, guys!”).’ Ramsay, 32, the ‘wunderkind of the cooking world’, is running what is ‘not a democracy but a dictatorship’.
Gordon Ramsay is in the kitchen of Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in Chelsea, and it’s hot, intense and frenzied, wrote fly-on-the-wall reporter Nicci Gerard in the Observer on 24 January 1999.
Gordon Ramsay reaches boiling point in Chelsea, 1999 Deaths in the family, tricky critics and chocolate smudges on plates looked likely to drive the young chef over the edge.
His father didn’t rate the new career and Ramsay ‘never stopped wanting that patriarchal recognition and working for it’, Boiling Point, he hoped, would show his father he was a success, but his death put paid to that.
When Gill turned up at Gordon Ramsay, Joan Collins in tow, Ramsay kicked him out.
