Well I know that people will judge Gordon Ramsay very harshly for this result. But in fairness to Ramsay, I think it is worth noting the following points before judging him too harshly: He is being called in to try and turn around the absolute BOTTOM of the barrel restaurant fiasco situations, at a point in which it is often too late (due to insane debt levels). If you were tasked with going around to businesses that were on the threshold of bankruptcy, and trying to turn them around, your success rate would not be that great, no matter what the level of your skills and talents. 2) Despite being continuously thrust into trying to save near hopeless situations... he nevertheless takes on the challenge, and really seems to give a lot of himself, in terms of emotion and energy. 3) Finally it should be noted that while the show is primarily dramatic entertainment, nevertheless, I strongly believe the show has actually SAVED far more restaurant businesses then we can know. In other words, MANY restaurant owners around the world watch these shows and undoubtedly learn from it, taking away the idea that customers should be treasured, respected, and treated like gold. Conveyed in that show, is the idea of respect, in terms of cleanliness of the kitchen, the use of prime ingredients, and simplification of overly complex and convoluted menu choices. There is also the idea that it's never too late to try and change and turn things around, and at least go out fighting to make the restaurant far greater than it is. 4) Sorry another thought just came to mind: that show also influences "regular" people like me, to improve our home kitchen cleanliness and ingredients! So in the end, we'll probably never know the true statistic on how many restaurants this show has saved, by inspiration and teaching lessons... But whether or not for the shear entertainment drama of it all, or for the restaurants it does help turn around that we'll never know about... I still think this show has great value. More on reddit.com

if you're referring to the royal hospital outlet, i found it meh. top-notch service but food wasn't that exciting. agree with the other posters that u can find better food at other outlets. More on reddit.com

Your point about spoilt rich people with their kids treating the meal like it was nothing special is something I've experienced at basically every three star I've gone to. I don't understand why you'd take kids there when you can definitely afford a nanny. Ridiculous. I do feel my meal there gave me a similar feeling. It was all immaculately done but it didn't move me much, if you understand. But I get that at Ducasse too. Its incredibly well done and the ingredients are top but it doesn't grab and stay with me. L'enclume does. Edit: just want to give a shout out to the never ending replies I'm getting from permanently offended parents hell bent on taking their charming little creations to three star restaurants. You are all coming across exactly how you are thought of. Good day. More on reddit.com

My wife and I ate here for our last meal in London. We've been watching Hell's Kitchen since season 1, so we were interested to try one of his flagship restaurants (I have eaten at some of his restaurants in Vegas, last being Hell's Kitchen which was very meh). There was their regular tasting menu (Menu Prestige) and their surprise menu (Carte Blanche) which is 50 pounds more. We both went with the Carte Blanche, although I'm surprised we didn't do one of each just so we could try more variety of dishes. Overall, I'd say the experience was a bit uneven. I loved the plating of the chawanmushi course (the dish with the caviar), but it totally threw me off that it was called chawanmushi because the egg custard was cold. Flavors were quite good, but that just threw me off. The plating for most of the other dishes is somewhat uninspired. I was showing my sister these pictures and she said it looked like peak '90s fine dining, lol. Service was also a bit of a mixed bag. They definitely went for much more of the hyper-attentive route. For the first set of starters/amuse, there were 3 different bites served at the same time. As we finished one of the set of bites, within 5 seconds, someone was there to remove the plate. It just felt a bit intrusive at times. It was a good meal overall, but we both strongly preferred our experience at CORE by Clare Smyth a few days earlier (I didn't realize until very recently that Clare Smyth had actually been head chef here in the early 2000s). Haven't yet done the full writeup on my blog for this, but it will be here - https://epicureanenthusiast.blog/restaurant-gordon-ramsay/ More on reddit.com