The notorious British chef Gordon Ramsay is taking his cuisine to new heights.
His latest opening at 22 Bishopsgate, one of the tallest buildings in London, features not one, but three restaurants.
The first is Restaurant Gordon Ramsay High, a 12-seat chef’s table experience that’s 890 feet above the ground with swivel chairs and a view that makes the city’s skyscrapers look like a paper town. It’s also the tallest restaurant in Europe.
The sample menu starts at 250 pounds a person with a taste of an oyster vichyssoise that uses imperial gold caviar, buttermilk and dill; scallops from the Isle of Skye with pumpkin, nori, and pine créme, and a Cornish turbot made with morteau sausage, thyme, black garlic and yellow wine.
Other items on the menu include 14-day aged Sladesdown farm duck; a twice baked cheese soufflé, and a sorbet made with rhubarb, Champagne and rosé.
The restaurant is headed by James Goodyear, who was previously head chef at Evelyn’s Table, a fine dining restaurant that has won a Michelin star.
A selection of food from Lucky Cat Restaurant.
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Ramsay’s other openings in the same building are Lucky Cat Restaurant and Bar, serving Asian-inspired cuisine and drinks until late. The restaurant is one of few in London that stays open late — on weekends it closes at 3 a.m.
The menu offers an array of sashimi and nigiri to dumplings and bao buns using fried duck leg, tofu and spicy avocado, and chicken and shitake mushrooms.
But what the restaurant has become most famous for is its maneki-neko figurines, otherwise known as a beckoning cat, which has become a mascot for the restaurant.
Ramsay recently revealed that more than 500 of the lucky beckoning cats have been stolen from the restaurant — at a total cost of more than 2,000 pounds.
