Bread Street Kitchen

Bread Street Kitchen
The location of the restaurant within Greater London
Restaurant information
Established 26 October 2011 (2011-10-26)
Chef Gordon Ramsay
Street address One New Change, 10 Bread Street, London EC4M 9AJ
Country United Kingdom
Coordinates 51°30′49″N 0°05′42″W / 51.513570°N 0.095015°W / 51.513570; -0.095015
Website www.gordonramsay.com/bread-street/

Bread Street Kitchen is a restaurant owned by chef Gordon Ramsay within the One New Change retail and office development in London.

History

The restaurant cost £3 million, and the opening was delayed by a year and was subsequently expected to open on 26 September 2011. A week prior to that date, Gordon Ramsay posted on Twitter, "Holy Cr*p 1 week to go! Not to sure if we are going to make it on time."[1] It actually opened on 26 October,[2] located near St Paul's Cathedral in London, inside the One New Change retail and office development across two floors.[2][3] It is next door to one of Jamie Oliver's Barbecoa restaurants.[3] The interior of the restaurant was fitted out by Russell Sage Studios using reclaimed materials and exposed concrete struts.[4]

It was announced in June 2014 that Ramsay intends to replicate Bread Street Kitchen in a new restaurant in Hong Kong, due to open in the following September.[5] On 23 June 2015 Gordon Ramsay officially opened Bread Street Kitchen in Singapore, at Marina Bay Sands. This marks his first foray into Asia. On 4 June 2015 Gordon Ramsay announced he will be opening Bread Street Kitchen in Atlantis, The Palm Dubai during the autumn of 2015.[6]

Menu

The restaurant is fitted out with an open kitchen, a raw bar and a wood burning oven.[7] It has a wine balcony storing 2000 bottles.[2] Dishes on the menu include a burger made of beef short ribs, a mutton pie, as well as suckling pig.[2]

Reception

Food critic Jay Rayner visited the restaurant for The Observer in October 2011. He described it as "loud and brash", but enjoyed several dishes such as a sea bass with aubergine purée, and a veal chop which he thought could have been improved by resting it longer. But he thought that the tamarind chicken wings were overpriced and of poor quality, the burger on the menu was "overminced to a paste, destroying both flavour and texture".[8] He felt that the restaurant might improve with time.[8] Tracey MacLeod said that "nearly everything... was good" in her review in the The Independent.[4] She liked the burger and suggested that that mutton pie was going to become the restaurant's signature dish. She found that her waitress wasn't as familiar with the menu as she would have liked, and that the service was very slow.[4]

Lauren Paxman praised the interior furnishing of the restaurant in The Daily Mail, and said that a yellow tuna loin dish with red onion and mint salad was "so wonderfully tasty it was almost like an uber tender slice of beef".[9] She also said that the chocolate tart was "very, very close to perfection" but a vanilla and gingerbread cheesecake was disappointing.[9] The review in Metro gave the restaurant three out of five, but said that this was based on the interior and not the food. It said that the veal chop was "weirdly truncated and misshapen, as though it had a slab shaved off to appease the bottom line" and the crab tagliolini was "cat food".[10] However it did praise the chicken wings and the venison with sour cherries and celeriac purée.[10]

Time Out magazine gave the restaurant a rating of four out of five,[3] however Harden's restaurant guide gave it a score of four (where 1 is high and five is low) for food, ambience and service and said that it was "nothing special".[11] Tanya Gold visited the restaurant nine months after it opened for The Spectator, saying that the service was fast and remarked positively about the food she tried.[12]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "It's Kitchen Frightmare for Gordon". Daily Record. HighBeam Research. 17 September 2011. Retrieved 11 August 2014. (subscription required (help)).
  2. 1 2 3 4 Paskin, Becky (26 September 2011). "Gordon Ramsay opens latest restaurant Bread Street Kitchen". Big Hospitality. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 "Bread Street Kitchen". Time Out. 25 September 2012. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 MacLeod, Tracey (8 October 2011). "Bread Street Kitchen, One New Change, 10 Bread Street, London EC4". Retrieved 11 August 2014.
  5. ↑ "Gordon Ramsay Group Expanding into Asia This Year". Hotelier Middle East. HighBeam Research. 10 June 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
  6. ↑ http://www.eater.com/2015/6/8/8747509/gordon-ramsay-new-restaurant-dubai
  7. ↑ "Bread Street Kitchen". Evening Standard. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
  8. 1 2 Rayner, Jay (30 October 2011). "Restaurant review: Bread Street Kitchen". The Observer. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
  9. 1 2 Paxman, Lauren (28 October 2011). "In this case, the F word is 'fantastic': Gordon Ramsay's Bread Street Kitchen serves comfort food in a relaxed setting". Daily Mail. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
  10. 1 2 "Gordon Ramsay's Bread Street Kitchen is not one for a second date". Metro. 18 October 2011. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
  11. ↑ "Bread Street Kitchen - London". Harden's. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
  12. ↑ Gold, Tanya (19 May 2012). "Carry on screaming". The Spectator. HighBeam Research. Retrieved 11 August 2014. (subscription required (help)).

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