16-02-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Gordon Ramsay's empire grows with 5 new openings in City of London tower 22 Bishopsgate
It has been a busy few weeks for Gordon Ramsay.
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He took time to film a Super Bowl advertisement with actor Pete Davidson and then make po' boys – a sandwich originally from the US state of Louisiana – for broadcasters at the big game in New Orleans. The activities personify his curious amalgam of roles: part television chef,
part brand ambassador , a headline generator and, ultimately, an entertainment industry bigwig with star power.
Those ever-evolving characters are in evidence at 22 Bishopsgate, where Gordon Ramsay Restaurants has taken a 20-year lease for, count them, five new ventures in the tallest skyscraper in the City of London.
There is a new outpost of his 'Asian-inspired' restaurant Lucky Cat; a 12-seat chef's-table version of his three-Michelin-star Chelsea flagship, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay; a cooking academy; a 60-seat Lucky Cat Bar; and another brasserie-style Bread Street Kitchen, which is expected to open later in the year.
As you would expect from a savvy media operator, the twists and turns of the lead-up to the openings can be tracked in a forthcoming
Netflix documentary , Being Gordon Ramsay.
