Gordon Ramsay Biography

Gordon Ramsay (Gordon Ramsay Jr. OBE) is a British chef, restaurateur, author and television personality. Ramsay’s restaurants have been awarded 16 Michelin stars in total and currently hold a total of 7.

As a reality television personality, Ramsay is known for his fiery temper, strict demeanour, and frequent use of expletives.

Gordon Ramsay Age

Ramsay was born on 8 November 1966 in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland. He is 52 years old as of 2018.

Gordon Ramsay Family

Ramsay is the second son of four children. He has an elder sister, Diane; a younger brother, Ronnie, and younger sister, Yvonne. Ramsay’s father, Gordon James Sr., was a swimming pool manager, a welder, and a shopkeeper; his sister Yvonne and their mother, Helen have been nurses. In 1976, they settled in Stratford-upon-Avon, where Ramsay grew up in the Bishopton area of the town. At age of 16, Ramsay moved out of the family home and into a flat in Banbury.

Gordon Ramsay Marriage

Ramsay married Cayetena Elizabeth Hutcheson, a Montessori-trained schoolteacher, in 1996. They lived in Wandsworth Common, London. The two couple have four children, Megan, Holly, Jack, and Matilda. Mega ran the London Marathon in 2017 in memory of the miscarriage her mother suffered five months into her pregnancy in June 2016, a male fetus whom they had named Rocky.

Gordon Ramsay Net worth

Ramsay is a British chef who has an estimated net worth of $175.

Gordon Ramsay Career

Football Career

Ramsay played football and was the first chosen to play under-14 football at age 12. His footballing career was marked by injuries, causing him to remark later in life,” Perhaps I was doomed when it came to football. Ramsay had a trial with Rangers, the club he supported as a boy. He seriously injured his knee, smashing the cartilage during training. Ramsay has claimed to have played two first-team games for Rangers. Ramsay was signed by the club at the age of 15. Rangers spokesman said.”Ramsay was a trialist in that testimonial game. Ramsay played with us for a few months after that but then got injured.”

Cooking Career

At the age of 19, Ramsay paid more serious attention to his culinary education. Ramsay enrolled at North Oxfordshire Technical College, sponsored by the Rotarians, to study hotel management. Ramsay describes his decision to enter the catering college as ”an accident, a complete accident.” In the mid-1980s, Ramsay worked as a commies chef at the  Wroxton House Hotel then ran the kitchen and 60-seat dining room at the Wickham Arms, until his sexual relationship with the owner’s wife made the situation difficult. Ramsay then moved to London, where he worked in a series of restaurants until being inspired to work for the temperamental Macro Pierre White at Harveys.

Ramsay, tired after working at Harveys for two years and ten months. He decided that the way to further advance his career was to study French cuisine. Albert Roux innvited Ramsay to work with him at Hotel Diva, a ski resort in the French Alps, as his number two. From there, a 23-year-old Ramsay moved to Paris to work with Guy Savoy and Joël Robuchon, both Michelin-starred chefs. In Master Chef series 3 episode 18, Gordon Ramsay stated that Guy Savoy was his mentor.

Ramsay was offered the position of the head chef on his return to London under chef-patron Pierre Koffmann, at the three-Michelin-starred La Tante Claire in Chelsea. Despite the restaurant’s success, a dispute with Ramsay’s business owners, who wanted to turn Aubergine into a chain, and Ramsay’s dream of running his own restaurant led to his leaving the partnership in July 1998.

Ramsay He has described the decision to set out on his own as “the most important day of my entire cooking career; the most important decision of my life.”In 1998, Ramsay opened his own restaurant in Chelsea, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, with the help of his father-in-law, Chris Hutcheson, and his former colleagues at Aubergine. The restaurant gained its third Michelin star in 2001, making Ramsay the first Scot to achieve that feat. After establishing his first restaurant, Ramsay’s empire expanded rapidly.

Ramsay next opened Petrus, then Amaryllis in Glasgow (which he was later forced to close), and later Gordon Ramsay at Claridge’s. He hired his friend and maître d’hôtel Jean-Philippe Susilovic, who works at Petrus and also appears on Ramsay’s US TV show Hell’s Kitchen. Restaurants at the Dubai Creek and Connaught hotels followed, the latter branded with his protegee Angela Hartnett’s name.

Ramsay has opened restaurants outside the UK, beginning with Verre in Dubai. Two restaurants, Gordon Ramsay at Conrad Tokyo and Cerise by Gordon Ramsay, both opened in Tokyo in 2005. In November 2006, Gordon Ramsay at the London opened in New York City, winning top newcomer in the city’s coveted Zagat guide, despite mixed reviews from professional critics.

Ramsay opened his first restaurant in Ireland in 2007, Gordon Ramsay at Powerscourt, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Powerscourt, County Wicklow. This restaurant closed in 2013. In May 2008, he opened his first restaurant in the Western US, in The London West Hollywood Hotel (formerly the Bel-Age Hotel) on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. The contract expired in 2015, closing the restaurant.

Ramsay opened the first Canadian restaurant, Laurier Gordon Ramsay in Montreal. In February 2012, Danny Lavy, the owner of the restaurant, announced the restaurant was disassociating itself from Ramsay, citing a lack of involvement and understanding on Ramsay’s part. The restaurant closed in 2013.

Gordon Ramsay Restaurant