Gordon needs to do Kitchen Nightmares: Ramsay Restaurant edition, where he comes to each of the places with his name over the door and figures out how they throw out subpar food at a premium. You'd imagine with the multiple reviews Gary has done on Gordons' establishments, which have gotten a super amount of views, that he'd either see them or be made aware of the poor quality that's coming out of his kitchens.
The Greasy Spoon in Liverpool will give you 3 sausages 5 rashes of bacon, 3 hash browns, 2 eggs, 2 tomatoes good portion of baked beans 2 slices of black pudding 4 rounds of toast and a cup of tea all for £4.99
@@GaryEats In the mid 90s you could go to the Post House pub (tiny place) in Liverpool and get steak and chips, a large brandy and a pint of beer for under five pounds. The council tried to knock it down to build some useless sitting area that no one would visit but John Prescott intervened and saved it.
Weatherspoons will do you two eggs, two sausages, two bacon, two hash browns, beans, mushroom, two toast for about £6.50 + coffee with free refills for another £1.50 - with no music!
As someone who has worked in the weatherspoons pubs, the bacon is low quality, frozen hash brown, frozen sausages, Heinz beans. The most expensive part of the breakfasts in weather spoons is the mushroom.
@@bengreatrex1364 I've had it quite a few times and its decent. I mainly have the vegetarian version though with 2 sausages and 2 eggs but no bacon which I think I got recently for £4.99. I actually really enjoyed it. I really like the vegetarian sausages in wetherspoons I find them as nice as the real sausages. I would never go into this restaurant. £19 is not reasonable for a english breakfast and I have zero interest in Gordon Ramsey as a celebrity. So absolutely no reason to ever go in there.
@@bonzobanana1 yes it’s cheap because it’s frozen import. Same with the veg sausages and the veggie burgers, all frozen. There chicken breast is literally frozen and cooked in the microwave, and put on the grill to get the black marks. You get what you pay for.
I've said it before, but as a former waiter, I want to reiterate how much I respect you for crediting good front-of-house service, even when the food is disappointing. People need to recognize that waiters are just doing their job and don't have any control over the food quality. Nothing is more soul-destroying than having people mouth off to you over something that is out of your control. You seem like a really great guy, Gary! You are the best type of customer.
i dident understand all words writen and i apologize for it, but ill erase the orginal statment cuz peopel cant seem to read the comment where i apologize for not having english as my native language but ill leave this for the comments.
That's a fair point to make Alex , There's no need to be rude if your not happy with the food ,it's not the waiter's fault , as Garry said they were happy to change it . .
@@ElDerpyi had no ide what mouth of means and now know what it means and i can undersantd you statment. i wont erase my coment so other can se it and trhink twice about the words writen, im not english and dont care about every slang you have tbh. its not to much to ask for you to understand that not everyone is speaking english and its more than oki to correct me/them but understand were learning. how many languages are you speaking? but attacking them personaly for not speaking the language youre speaking is just ridiculous tbh, go out of uk and understand that youre not the whole world.
@@jaklg7905 Idd and i honestly thought mouth of meant just saying someting negative or not agreeing and i already stated that i was worng and i apologize for it. For the rest of youre comment, well... im not going to get you to drag me to youre low level by calling you things, hope you have a wounderful life :)
That is so wrong! If I pay for eggs on sourdough I want a sauce like Hollandaise that I cannot make at home 💁♀️ but £14 for a breakfast I can make at home for £3 worth of ingredients
Keep in mind most restaurants try to hold food cost at 30% of the menu price. Not sure I would even pay £10 for that dish as presented. Then again I’m not a Londoner.
Frozen hash browns. Dehydrated bacon. Hard boiled poached eggs. A bit of tomato and a bit of mushroom. Luke warm beans. Mmm. A £4 teabag. Sounds like Gordon’s kitchen nightmare.
Absolutely shameful. Even the most amateur of cooks knows what is supposed to happen when you cut into a poached egg. I think we can all imagine what he'd say, without staging, in one of his "nightmare" shows. Maybe some of those restaurant owners who have been humiliated, for ratings, should get together and do their own show and tour Ramsey's restaurants.
Everyone says he's food it's rubbish you pay for his knowledge on the form of food to have someone else cook it why would you bother since he went on his own way he has been rejected by every food critic and fan you could imagine
£5 for a slice of black pudding?!😮 I walked 10 minutes from my house today for a full English breakfast. 2 x back bacon (cooked to perfection) 2 x Cumberland sausages Black pudding 2 x Fried Eggs Baked beans Tomatoes (ok, they were tinned, but I like tinned.....) Fried slice Hash browns Mushrooms (I know you hate them, Gary, but t I love them) 2 x thick cut bloomer toast or bread and butter Coffee Cost? A whole £7! All in
@@chrisharbach7494 I mean, it’s obvious isn’t it? If you eat in the restaurant of a world renowned chef? he hast to bring it up a notch! Not take it down. I can’t even see him serving a Full English for nearly…ANY price! I mean the foods are simple! You have to bring something special like turn this simple meal into a slightly more sophisticated form of it? Am I wrong? I’ve been a personal chef to a multi-billionaire/titan of industry and I would’ve been ashamed to place those eggs on my boss’ breakfast table! Actually, he was a mean cuss! He might’ve thrown those eggs on the floor!
I'm a chef who does a brunch every day from 10 till 1 and the amount of poached eggs I do every day is ridiculous but if any one them is overcooked I'd rather do them again than send them. Doesn't make me a better chef than Gordon but it makes me feel good with myself 😀
You've gained a new subscriber my friend, that was an honest review,you said exactly how it is!!!! I appreciate the fact you will give credit where it's due and point out the issues without going over the top!!! If I owned a restaurant I'd want you to review it!!!!!
I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU SENT THE EGGS BACK!!!! I'm so proud of you!!! Well done!!! I think you really are sometimes too nice. But I love you anyway, you have such a good heart!!! Spot on for the numbers!!!
@@lichade2008that just allows Gordon to overcharge for underwhelming food. Same as all celebrity chefs putting their name above a door. Gary calls this nonsense out so the rest of us can avoid and spend our money in places where we get value & decent food. That simple really. 🤷🏻♂️
This has a wonderful irony about it. Ramsey has spent a lot of time ripping into restaurant owners using every expletive under the sun and it turns out his offering isn’t actually very good. Your David vs Goliath, polite, and refined review is far more powerful than his have ever been.
Bloody hell! I was a professional chef for 25 years. I’d have been fired from every hotel and restaurant I’d ever worked at for producing such terrible food!
You would have been fired for sending out some slightly over poached eggs? At least you had zero job security with your piss poor pay, call that a combo meal. Embarrassing on multiple levels. Especially embarrassing for you not even realising how bad what you said is. Hope you’re in a better place!
Group of us moored our boats in Limehouse Dock E. London, had a pint or three in the marina club house and then decided to try Gordon Ramsey's pub just across the road. Name??? A van pulled up and started to unload trays of food, clearly cooked elsewhere. We about turned and chanced a pub further up the road. Sod paying over the top prices for precooked food and a name over the door.
Just found your channel, watched a few today on a day off Probably one of the best reviewers on YT, and not just counting food reviews! Brilliant, fair, honest, engaging - super combo 👍
I never go to celebrity chef restaurants. $10 for a teabag, must be joking. I cant tolerate music in restaurants, soft background is ok, but what is it with the loud noise. I went and had breakfast at my local and they had the music on loud and told the young waiter to turn it down, cant even hear how to order. Ridiculous. From Australia 🇦🇺 Gordon is very critical of other restaurants, maybe he needs to do a review of his own?
People arnt going to pay for crap like this anymore and a large part of that is due to people like Gary. There's no way I would visit this "restaurant" after Gary's review .
All well Gary? Thanks as ever for your review! You do a great job and provide a really valuable service to the general public. Your reviews are always fair, well balanced and well presented. It's way past time when someone came into our view who could expose the chef spoofs and con artists who operate only for the greatest profit with the smallest input. Greed Greed Greed! Well done!!
IMO it’s a double edged sword, whilst I whole heartedly agree to not giving airtime to these places but I’m very grateful to Gary for taking one for the team in showing us them and giving an honest review to maybe make some people think twice about going there 💕
I had a belly buster breakfast the other day from my local cafe. It cost £10.00 and it was much better than that breakfast. My belly buster had 3 sausages 3 hash browns 4 pieces of bacon black pudding white pudding beans tomatoes and mushrooms 2 eggs 4 pieces of bread and 2 fried bread. I also had a pot of tea included in the price.
Gordon Ramsey's gone crazy in his new videos. Spaghetti appearing out of nowhere, rotund, using live chickens. Turning everyone into "idiot sandwiches." The guy's maniacical now.
My pet peeve in restaurants is the loud music blasting through the speakers and i love listening to heavy metal..Wish the food matched the quality of the service staff. Great review as always. Enjoy the day everyone.
Gary asked over and over why the music is so loud, especially with so few people in the restaurant. There's the answer to his question. I think many restaurants turn the volume of the muzak up when there are very few diners to give the false impression that the place is bustling with activity. I also notice that it often takes longer to be served and to pay up when the restaurant is nearly empty. No restaurant wants to appear deserted.
I’ve only been one place that sold fresh hash browns made from scratch and it was a very high end place. Everywhere else has what appears to be frozen.
£19 for a BREAKFAST !!! And they have the balls to use frozen hash browns ! Also i remember Gordon Ramsey once saying that if you cannot poach a runny egg you dont deserve to work in my kitchens . £4 + for a T-Bag from Asda ... Good job Gordon for charging silly money for an overrated chef .
@@rickroll9086 i said its frozen hash browns ... i was a chef for 20 years in various countries and the hash browns on his plate are exactly like the premade frozen hash browns most suppliers sell . Plus while i worked in USA every morning i had to make hash browns , its a simple job and takes no time to cook and minimal time to prep .
Gary I love watching your productions they are very informative and interesting. It's great to get the honest opinion of someone who knows about this. Hope you have a wonderful day from Northern Ireland.
Now listen Gary. You are a positive person with a positive channel always giving a FAIR review. This was a FAIR review. I’m so annoyed that you are annoyed because you are only being FAIR! Gorden Ramsey is totally out of order with whatever way he is running this place or franchising it. You are blameless. End of rant. 👍
Well I wouldn’t expect you to understand I suppose. I’m not weird (I don’t think) It’s not the point. I’ve followed Gary for a long time now and this is the first time he sent food back. He takes one for the team. The man’s a gentleman and to see him so visibly upset pissed me off especially when he simply gave an honest FAIR review. I hope this helps in some way. 👍
The fact that Gary didn’t want his poached eggs redone because he was afraid of what the kitchen would do says a lot about the restaurant industry and its culture. Not good at all.
I once listened to a well known food critic on the radio a few years back, he stated never, never send food back. Just enjoy what part of the meal you like, pay the bill and leave.
@@GaryEats I can honestly say I was a freelance Chef and now run a Chef recruitment company. I can honestly say food is barely ever tampered with, in 8 years I probably seen it once and reported it before it was sent to a customer. Im sure it does happen, but most Chefs get ashamed when things are returned.
@@swally125yes I agree, I've worked in kitchens for 20 years. I've never seen food tampered with that was sent back. It's quite the opposite they try to make the meal better. It's surprising how the general public thinks there food will be tampered with in my experience this never happens.
I've had high end breakfasts with one sausage, but it was a huge sausage and you didn't leave hungry. That was a mediocre looking normal sized sausage.
Of all the food reviewers on UA-cam I think Gary is probably the one that would benefit establishments the most. Talk about a voice of the people, I don't think I've ever seen anything here that I outright disagree with, ever.
Cheap sausage, cheap cut of bacon , cold beans and I would have expected a genuine hash brown , not triangle frozen ones. The scrambled egg looked lovely and the poached eggs were very sad. The best part of the meal was the staff. G R should be ashamed of himself. Sorry you had such a bad experience and a costly one. Thank you for a great review our Gary. Have a restful evening and day tomorrow sweet x 😊
@@GaryEats I'm sure there's much better on the horizon and I sincerely wish that for you. Thank you and your Son again for a great honest review sweet x 😊
You are bang on Maria! You also get your points across much more succinctly than I do in the comments. 😅 I hope you have been able to relax & enjoy your time by the sea. Take care sweetheart & catch-up with you soon. 🌷💕
Hello my darling Erin , thank you sweet. You did make me laugh, I do have a habit of waffling lol so this comment of mine made a change from the norm lol. I'm having a lovely relaxed time thank you sweet . I hope you're doing ok yourself and also so happy to see you on here as I felt your absence xx Please stay safe and rest when you're able. Catch up soon. Much love darling xx 🦋💐🌹❤️
@@butterflydiva1 You waffle alot less than I do! 😅 I'm sure when Gary sees me pop up in the comments, he thinks "oh, here we go" as he proceeds to press the "read more" button 🤣 Thank you, I'm doing OK. My work is changing at the moment so I might have to play catch-up on a few reviews here & there. I'm really glad you are having a relaxed & wonderful time. I hope the break & change of scenery has been rejuvenating for you. I'll email soon & please take care. You are a lovely & special presence here on the channel. 🌷💙
Thanks for being my inspiration Gary ❤ I love food channels, and I'm sick of influencers lying about how "great" a place is that has paid them to be there. I've started my own channel because of you, so thank you for being yourself 🥰
Stumbled on your channel with Clarksons Pub and I'm hooked! This is how food critique should be. No unnecessary waffle. As for the nasty online comments...F..them. keep up the good work Gary and keep feeding the camera man!
That is an absolute disgrace. They’ve been very sly calling it an English Breakfast, rather than a Full English Breakfast, so they can charge extra for the black pudding.
Hello, Gary. Here for the second time. I agree about the loud music in restaurants. I can't stand it. It just makes being there less pleasant, and it's almost never a variety of music I would want to listen to anyway. I avoid places with loud music. The breakfast appeared to me to be pretty decent, although a bit overpriced. I get a nice breakfast here (in Canada) at a local "middle class" sort of place, and it includes 4 small sausages, three fried eggs (done whichever way you want them...including scrambled if you want that), 2 slices of rye toast (cut into 4 halves) with butter and jam, a drink ($2 tea, $2 coffee or a free glass of lemon water), and a generous serving of REALLY good old-fashioned home fries...not deep fried, not frozen stuff cooked in hot oil, but pan-fried from freshly sliced raw potatoes. It's nothing unusual, and it costs just under $20 Canadian ($11.14 UK pounds). Now, you've got a larger breakfast there with some fancy extras (like the poached eggs and avocado on bread part)...so it is going to be more expensive. The poached eggs did look a bit overdone....they should've been softer...but I wouldn't call them hard-boiled. I'd call them halfway between "normal poached" and hard-boiled. It sounds like the scrambled eggs were really good! And that's fairly rare, I think. Now...the bacon. You generally specify here in Canada just how you want the bacon to be cooked. Lightly. Medium. Or crispy. And I like it lightly done. So all they have to do is ask the customer "How do you want the bacon?" when you order the meal. I'm surprised that they don't. Or that the customer doesn't tell them in advance. All in all, I think I'd have been okay with that meal, but there is room for improvement and it's a bit overpriced....but that figures! It's a Gordon Ramsay restaurant in London. I can't afford a trip to London, and I probably can't afford to eat frequently at Gordon Ramsay restaurants....but at least I can vicariously enjoy watching you do it for me! 😄 One thing I wonder with these reviews. It's best to eat hot food as soon as it arrives at your table, because it's not nearly as good after it has cooled down some. I sometimes worry that the intro takes a bit too long, and the food has started to cool off by the time you're tasting it, which means it's not going to be nearly as good as if you'd tasted it right away. What do you think? I think it's a factor worth considering when doing these reviews. I know you have to do an intro, but I'd get into eating the food a little faster, so it doesn't have time to cool down. Note: I am not talking in silly quasi-Cockney fashion now. I just do that occasionally, because it's fun. But not this time.
Gordon should get 3-4 undercover people to pose as customers. when the meal is ready and served Gordon comes in and tries all his dishes with his kitchen staff all gathered... and grills the hell out of his own staff.. now that would be good TV
@@patbloomfield888 I’m not eating anything. But if you meant when Gordon eats it, I don’t think that matters. In Kitchen Nightmares or Hell's Kitchen, when all the dishes are prepared, they are laid out on the table for quite a while before being taste-tested.
Better yet get a respected chef to come in with a TV crew, represent the establishment on national TV in the worst possible light, for entertainment value. This ending any hopes the owner has for turning the business around.
Yeah, but the water was pure unicorn tears, gathered in a full-moon, poured on a teabag woven from spun platinum threads, by a host of unsullied virgins, so well worth the money! (either that, or chlorinated sewage from old father Thames, like wot the rest of us drink.)
It's £1.50 at truck stop hut in the middle of nowhere with 1 staff/owner It does seem excessive but it's London And with all restaurants costs its not meant for us working class
Looks like the poached eggs were made earlier and then reheated to order. Quite shameful, considering they only take a matter of minutes to cook from fresh
The City of London (the square mile) was almost exclusively, independent cafes, bars, restaurants back in the 90s........and were nearly always quality.......its now full of overpriced shite like these.
Birminghams Mosely road in Highgate used to be full of cafe's in the 90's and were amazing value and the food was excellent. The community war mainly asians from India and Pakistan and they cooked British food to perfection in those days. A breakfast this size would cost as little as £2.00 no word of a lie! Never had a breakfast with only 1 sausage ever!
Excellent Vlog, my nephew is a Head Chef and what you said about sending items back I totally agree after what he told me once. We were at a family BBQ and he was talking about Items being sent back. now I don’t know if it was a few to many G&Ts but i have always kept that in mind. Similar to what you said “send it back but don’t ask for a replacement”. Keep up the great work
@@GaryEats Go to the places where the families that own the place, deserve the money. We know the name above the door doesn't really work by now. Enjoy the food you review, for the Cameraman's sake.
@@ToySoldier-qg8yq It is properly owned by him and one of his companies he owns. But clearly delegates to other people making decisions and they do seem to run things as though they are a franchise.
Nope Morrisons breakfasts both look better and cost less than half that for the Full English/Scottish and I've had enough of them to know and moreover I'd choose Morrisons breakfast over that
We have a restaurant near me that also delivers you can get 3 eggs, 3 hash browns, 3 sausages, 3 bacon, 3 tomatoes, 3 fried bread and baked beans for £12.99
We have a nice cafe near myself, they will do takeaway but no delivery. 3 sausage, 3 bacon, 2 eggs, beans, tomatoes, mushrooms, black pudding, 2 toast, 2 fried toast . 8.99 and the bacon ain't no streaky small bacon, its full back bacon thick slices. Pot of tea is only 2.00
I mean, they're franchises. He probably has nothing to do with them, but sure. Personally, I wouldn't go to these rubbish franchises, I don't know why anyone does other than maybe needing to show off. Just go to decent local restaurants for Pete's sake.
@@kiriakoz hi from Australia 🇦🇺 totally agree with you there! You would think though like Gary said having your name and face plastered everywhere 🙄 😒 you would take some pride 😤 after all it's GR namesake! I prefer the little village pubs that have Bern run by families 👪 for decades or longer!
Absolutely disgraceful, fiver for a cup of tea ☕, one average looking sausage, horrible crappy bacon 🥓,a slice of toast,a few beans, hash browns that don't belong on an English breakfast the tomatoe looks extremely small and horrible and a Mushroom 🍄 what a rip off,rip off Ramsey, could you imagine his reaction, but the scrambled egg looked absolutely fantastic, but massively over priced, good video gary i certainly won't be going anywhere near that place 👍
Too many of these celebrity chefs rip off customers with the prices and sub standard food...crazy when people like James May, Neil Morrissy, James Blunt and Connor McGregor are ALL doing it better in their pubs!
I know you find it hard to give bad reviews, but if you are giving a genuine review you must be prepared to give an honest opinion and if that means a bad review then so be it. They are in business and their product or service must be value for the money you are charged.. so well done you.... its about time you stood up for customers. If the food isn't what you expect.. send it back... If you buy anything that isn't as described or reaches the standard you expect, you send it back... Period
@@GaryEats You are such a nice positive thinking guy Gary and all credit to you for that but if you put yourself forward as a reviewer giving an honest opinion on which many people will base their choice, you must be absolutely honest in your experience, good or bad and not shirk away from giving a poor (negative) review if one is warranted otherwise people will begin to lose trust in your judgement.. Of course you prefer to give a positive review but you now have over142,000 followers and people are beginning to look and trust you to give an honest review. If an excellent review is called for, then shout it from the rooftops but if the opposite is true don't be frightened to call them out. Keep up the excellent work and lets look forward to your 250,000th subscriber in 2025... Here's to you Gary and I hope you have many happy meals in the months and years to come..
I’ve always liked Gordon. I visited Petrus and it was exceptional. He was one of my inspirations for becoming a chef, but that breakfast is absolutely appalling. And the majority of brits probably wouldn’t bother returning the meal meaning we would have walked out of there nearly £50 lighter and thoroughly disappointed. It’s treating customers like idiots. That breakfast should be cooked with the freshest ingredients from local butchers and suppliers at that price. What a shame. Keep up the good work Gary. New subscriber!
Had a miners Benedict at Wetherspoons today. The poached eggs were on par with Ramsay’s. I have no idea how a professional cook can f**k up poached eggs
@@andyfullmast1034To be fair to the Wethercooks, the poach eggs arrived pre poached and get warmed up. But at least you leave Wetherspoons fairly well fed for the price.
I agree...the amount of times that the Wetherspoons breakfast has saved me from a hangover...(ok, being able to have a pint of hair of the dog at half six in the morning helps... :p)
Another celebrity chef ripping customers off. I would rather support a local business than be disappointed again by a celebrity restaurant! Good work Gary and I think a 3 was very generous! £19 and you only get 1 sausage 😂 That’s embarrassing!
An Aussie journalist brought Ramsey on to talk about a steak he had at one of his restaurants and Ramsey lost his shit and left. Ramsey is another hypocrite in his industry. It's why he always fails whenever making non Western food and always gets laughed at.
Awesome video. My son and I ate at bread Street kitchen and Edinburgh a couple years ago. We had a great dinner no problems at all (beef Wellington for two) it probably the best Customer Service hands-down that I’ve ever received at any restaurant anywhere in my lifetime. One small hiccup is that we didn’t like one of our cocktails - not the restaurant’s fault it just didn’t suit our tastes. Our server gave us a brand new drink at no additional charge. Nice. ….Not long after we arrived back to our hotel room I discovered the restaurant completely credited my entire meal in full. That was completely unexpected and not necessary as they gave us a replacement drink for free. Needless to say I wrote a glowing review afterwards. 😊 but £19 for a breakfast? Maybe if it included champagne and a jazz brunch vibe would it be worth that kind of money. Anyway, enjoy your videos. Have a nice day.
That’s a rough arsed £4.99 brekkie at best. Maccies is an upgrade on that 😂.. thanks for sharing… fair and balanced as ever. Camera man’s gonna have the mushroom sounded like a threat 😜
The problem with these places is they aren't true Gordon Ramsay restaurants. He owns them but he never gets involved with a lot of them. He just licenses out his name and it's a shame because it tricks people into thinking they're getting food made to GR's standards and most of the time they won't. He just doesn't do 'casual dining' restaurants very well. I mean come on ,the chef here can't even poach an egg.
@GaryEats imagine if Ramsay was doing one of his TV shows...and he arrived and was served that overpriced poor quality food. He'd have gone mad!!! I'm afraid I've no time for these celebrity chefs. They're cashing in on their reputation at your expense, self indulgent self serving greedy individuals. Oh, BTW, Tom Kerridge has put his name to an M&Sbeef pie for one....selling for 7 quid!!
@@majorminor3367 Ahh, a fellow Bald Foodie Guy appreciator i see :D - You've got a great point, if Gordon visited this place on Kitchen Nightmares he'd kick off, that Bacon looked awful to me, and I personally think, no matter how nice the scrambled eggs may have been, that a bit of yellow food colouring was added to make it look more vibrant... The whole thing looked like a cheap Amercian Breakfast with added Beans.
Hi Gary. Ramsey is a multi millionaire because of his career in the TV industry. Yes he is probably one of the best chefs in the country and he’s cashing in on that. I hate to think what that restaurant pays for the privilege of being in that franchise. The only winner is Ramsey, no one else and you and the public are paying for it. Your correct my friend, don’t go to any more of his so-called establishments! There are far better breakfasts out there at half the price. Good vid for calling him out, well done. Regards Dave M.
Pretty sure a majority of serious chefs do not consider him one of the greats, seeing how he doesn't even cook at his restaurants (his media empire does the heavy lifting in keeping him in this conversation). He's just a dishonest businessman masquerading as an elite chef.
Cold beans, cardboard bacon, sausage that has never been near a pig , and a mushroom the size of a Frisbee... mmm, mmm... and £4.25 for a cuppa 😮.. Definitely a Kitchen Nightmare...
100% agree about the music. It's like being in a nightclub first thing in the morning. Breakfast was very average - no better than what you might get for £10 from a greasy cafe.
Ex fine dining chef here, You were spot on pretty much with your review, Substandard breakfast for a Ramsey £19 number. I will say this, in my 19 years in kitchens i never, nor witnessed any other chef tamper with a customers food, regardless of wether we generally think we are always right and that the customers generally are a bain on our lives 😂 but honestly it doesnt happen (that ive seen)
Thank you very much for your wonderful comment as you could see this was cooked by a chef who could not care less, I did not say it in the review but I watched him cook and he was not interested, that is the main reason why I did not ask for the meal to be redone, I think you would understand my reasoning
The reason the music is so loud is because it drowns out the pings from the microwaves used in the kitchen.
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Shocking Breakfast. Support your locally owned and sourced cafes, Restaurants and Farms.
These Franchisees are simply processed microwaved meals ..
It's not a franchise. Gordon Ramsay Restaurants Ltd owns them all, and Ramsay & his wife are the sole shareholders.
Frankly, they need to step up, up, UP❣️
I completely agree with you
A local cafe will do a full english for a fiver that'll be far better
Would be a Scotchise anyway.
Gordon needs to do Kitchen Nightmares: Ramsay Restaurant edition, where he comes to each of the places with his name over the door and figures out how they throw out subpar food at a premium.
You'd imagine with the multiple reviews Gary has done on Gordons' establishments, which have gotten a super amount of views, that he'd either see them or be made aware of the poor quality that's coming out of his kitchens.
I completely agree with you Dazza, now that I would love to watch
And if Gordon comes heavily disguised that would make very interesting viewing.
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Couldn’t have said it better myself, but I fear the greed has overtaken their integrity to their craft
The Greasy Spoon in Liverpool will give you 3 sausages 5 rashes of bacon, 3 hash browns, 2 eggs, 2 tomatoes good portion of baked beans 2 slices of black pudding 4 rounds of toast and a cup of tea all for £4.99
That’s amazing value Anthony
@@GaryEats In the mid 90s you could go to the Post House pub (tiny place) in Liverpool and get steak and chips, a large brandy and a pint of beer for under five pounds. The council tried to knock it down to build some useless sitting area that no one would visit but John Prescott intervened and saved it.
Sounds amazing so if I'm ever up that way I will be sure to pop in 😊
I miss good English breakfasts
Rashes from bacon?! I wouldn’t pay for that, sounds uncomfortable. Rashers of bacon I would pay for.
Weatherspoons will do you two eggs, two sausages, two bacon, two hash browns, beans, mushroom, two toast for about £6.50 + coffee with free refills for another £1.50 - with no music!
A third of the price, and you get more. Can't even argue Gordon's was more premium 😂
As someone who has worked in the weatherspoons pubs, the bacon is low quality, frozen hash brown, frozen sausages, Heinz beans.
The most expensive part of the breakfasts in weather spoons is the mushroom.
@@bengreatrex1364 I've had it quite a few times and its decent. I mainly have the vegetarian version though with 2 sausages and 2 eggs but no bacon which I think I got recently for £4.99. I actually really enjoyed it. I really like the vegetarian sausages in wetherspoons I find them as nice as the real sausages. I would never go into this restaurant. £19 is not reasonable for a english breakfast and I have zero interest in Gordon Ramsey as a celebrity. So absolutely no reason to ever go in there.
But bottom quality.
Edit: Not saying that Ramsay's was worth its money though
@@bonzobanana1 yes it’s cheap because it’s frozen import. Same with the veg sausages and the veggie burgers, all frozen.
There chicken breast is literally frozen and cooked in the microwave, and put on the grill to get the black marks.
You get what you pay for.
I've said it before, but as a former waiter, I want to reiterate how much I respect you for crediting good front-of-house service, even when the food is disappointing. People need to recognize that waiters are just doing their job and don't have any control over the food quality. Nothing is more soul-destroying than having people mouth off to you over something that is out of your control. You seem like a really great guy, Gary! You are the best type of customer.
i dident understand all words writen and i apologize for it, but ill erase the orginal statment cuz peopel cant seem to read the comment where i apologize for not having english as my native language but ill leave this for the comments.
That's a fair point to make Alex , There's no need to be rude if your not happy with the food ,it's not the waiter's fault , as Garry said they were happy to change it . .
@@petereriksson1222 They said not to mouth off to the waiting staff - not avoid complaining.
Gonna bet you've never worked hospitality.
@@ElDerpyi had no ide what mouth of means and now know what it means and i can undersantd you statment. i wont erase my coment so other can se it and trhink twice about the words writen, im not english and dont care about every slang you have tbh.
its not to much to ask for you to understand that not everyone is speaking english and its more than oki to correct me/them but understand were learning. how many languages are you speaking? but attacking them personaly for not speaking the language youre speaking is just ridiculous tbh, go out of uk and understand that youre not the whole world.
@@jaklg7905 Idd and i honestly thought mouth of meant just saying someting negative or not agreeing and i already stated that i was worng and i apologize for it.
For the rest of youre comment, well... im not going to get you to drag me to youre low level by calling you things, hope you have a wounderful life :)
Support your local, independent cafes and restaurants folks. Small businesses are the backbone of most high streets 👍
I fully agree with you
I think most Brits do outside the capitals to be fair.
Not unless they’re shite as well.
On my street there a small cafe that will do you a breakfast like that for £4.99. Cash only though
Finding a great cafe breakfast anywhere is sacred. Always make a note of them!
£14.50 for a couple of eggs, a quarter of an avocado and one slice of sourdough is an insult to Londoners.
I think Gordon needs to take a look in the mirror as this was not acceptable
That is so wrong! If I pay for eggs on sourdough I want a sauce like Hollandaise that I cannot make at home 💁♀️ but £14 for a breakfast I can make at home for £3 worth of ingredients
@@oliviainnlondoneven then hollandaise is nowhere near as impossible to make as you think it is. You can do it yourself for much cheaper
@@gavcom4060 - that is very true 👍♥️
Keep in mind most restaurants try to hold food cost at 30% of the menu price. Not sure I would even pay £10 for that dish as presented. Then again I’m not a Londoner.
Frozen hash browns. Dehydrated bacon. Hard boiled poached eggs. A bit of tomato and a bit of mushroom. Luke warm beans. Mmm. A £4 teabag. Sounds like Gordon’s kitchen nightmare.
Poached eggs aren’t boiled.
@@johnnunn8688 to poach an egg you crack it and put it in boiling water! what do u think a Poached Egg is?? just they were done far far to long!
Gordon's kitchen nightmare :)
@@johnnunn8688 Except, they are boiled.
What do you think you crack eggs into to make poached eggs?
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Don't forget about the tinned backed beans
hard boiled poached eggs unforgiveable at those prices!
Gordon would have thrown the eggs at the cook and made them leave by the front door haha
Nah, it is unforgivable at any price. If you put poached eggs on the menu, make sure the kitchen staff know how to cook them.
Absolutely shameful. Even the most amateur of cooks knows what is supposed to happen when you cut into a poached egg. I think we can all imagine what he'd say, without staging, in one of his "nightmare" shows. Maybe some of those restaurant owners who have been humiliated, for ratings, should get together and do their own show and tour Ramsey's restaurants.
Nope that is for tv only @@Gary-l9h
Plus the place didn't look that busy...
You could find better food at a roadside cafe,what a rip off
I think Ramsey got his produce and ideas from that of Little Chef
Everyone says he's food it's rubbish you pay for his knowledge on the form of food to have someone else cook it why would you bother since he went on his own way he has been rejected by every food critic and fan you could imagine
Yep you are spot on James
@samslo4321 that why he's got so many mitchalin stars then
I honestly think you'd get exactly the same at Wetherspoons. Maybe the butter wouldn't come on a bed of slate.
£5 for a slice of black pudding?!😮
I walked 10 minutes from my house today for a full English breakfast.
2 x back bacon (cooked to perfection)
2 x Cumberland sausages
Black pudding
2 x Fried Eggs
Baked beans
Tomatoes (ok, they were tinned, but I like tinned.....)
Fried slice
Hash browns
Mushrooms (I know you hate them, Gary, but t I love them)
2 x thick cut bloomer toast or bread and butter
Coffee
Cost? A whole £7! All in
That’s absolutely fantastic value Chris better to support a local café than Gordon
Where do you live..I need to go there!😅🏴
where where where?
@@chrisharbach7494 I mean, it’s obvious isn’t it? If you eat in the restaurant of a world renowned chef? he hast to bring it up a notch! Not take it down. I can’t even see him serving a Full English for nearly…ANY price! I mean the foods are simple! You have to bring something special like turn this simple meal into a slightly more sophisticated form of it? Am I wrong?
I’ve been a personal chef to a multi-billionaire/titan of industry and I would’ve been ashamed to place those eggs on my boss’ breakfast table! Actually, he was a mean cuss! He might’ve thrown those eggs on the floor!
Really good to see honest (and fearless) reviews.
Thank you
Government should do that.
I'm a chef who does a brunch every day from 10 till 1 and the amount of poached eggs I do every day is ridiculous but if any one them is overcooked I'd rather do them again than send them. Doesn't make me a better chef than Gordon but it makes me feel good with myself 😀
Good man
Lounges do better eggs than this
@@allanmoncrieff5579 well said fellow chef 🧑🏻🍳
you know when it's overcooked poached eggs fds
Haha I love my poached eggs cooked well but I definitely know I'm the exception
£19 and you get deep fried hash browns from a catering supplies chain. Embarrassing.
They look like the Aldi ones
Agreed
@scabthecatTotally agree. It’s half a full breakfast. Why is the black pudding not included @ £19? 🫢
Grrrrrrrrrrrr! Greetings from Switzerland . Rösti land
Thinking same thing looks like a breakfast I used to cook in a hotel what a joke Gordon is
You've gained a new subscriber my friend, that was an honest review,you said exactly how it is!!!! I appreciate the fact you will give credit where it's due and point out the issues without going over the top!!! If I owned a restaurant I'd want you to review it!!!!!
I have just replied to you, Simon, and thank you very much once again 🇮🇪🇮🇪
I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU SENT THE EGGS BACK!!!! I'm so proud of you!!! Well done!!! I think you really are sometimes too nice. But I love you anyway, you have such a good heart!!! Spot on for the numbers!!!
He dint
He did
He didn't
If your egg yolks have turned into glue you send them back. That's a rule for life that is.
Thanks so much!!
This is why you have 147k subscribers… always balanced reviews …. If I was Ramsay I’d be embarrassed by that
Thank you very much Will, always open and honest
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Not sure he really cares when his net worth is $220 million+
I’m not sure Gordon Ramsay feels shame about anything.
@@lichade2008that just allows Gordon to overcharge for underwhelming food. Same as all celebrity chefs putting their name above a door. Gary calls this nonsense out so the rest of us can avoid and spend our money in places where we get value & decent food. That simple really. 🤷🏻♂️
What a cheeky bugger Ramsey really. Calling out all them restaurants. And a lot of his places are average or below average.
He has built the name through lies
Gorden F*****ing Ramsey is only good at one F****ing thing.
@@wecandothiswarriors he has built his name through swearing and been a loud mouth
He also has a burger place in seoul where a cheeseburger costs £45. Guy is a clown
His burgers are okish but for the money you can get a lot better
This has a wonderful irony about it. Ramsey has spent a lot of time ripping into restaurant owners using every expletive under the sun and it turns out his offering isn’t actually very good. Your David vs Goliath, polite, and refined review is far more powerful than his have ever been.
That’s very kind to say Duncan, Gordon needs to take a look in the mirror
Bloody hell! I was a professional chef for 25 years. I’d have been fired from every hotel and restaurant I’d ever worked at for producing such terrible food!
Same here I even worked for Ramsey, Marco, Blanc, Heston, Stein, Aitken.
Never seen it this bad
Every "greasy Joes " used to to do a better full english than that ,,by Miles ,,gross,,
Where did you work, who did you work for Steve.?
Psychology, big name means great food so folks convince themselves it is😜
You would have been fired for sending out some slightly over poached eggs? At least you had zero job security with your piss poor pay, call that a combo meal. Embarrassing on multiple levels. Especially embarrassing for you not even realising how bad what you said is. Hope you’re in a better place!
Apparently the next season of Ramsays Kitchen Nightmares he's going to be visiting his own restaurants. 😆
Group of us moored our boats in Limehouse Dock E. London, had a pint or three in the marina club house and then decided to try Gordon Ramsey's pub just across the road. Name??? A van pulled up and started to unload trays of food, clearly cooked elsewhere. We about turned and chanced a pub further up the road. Sod paying over the top prices for precooked food and a name over the door.
Ramsey too arrogant / smug to review or critique his own business honestly!.
He's illuminati
Just found your channel, watched a few today on a day off
Probably one of the best reviewers on YT, and not just counting food reviews!
Brilliant, fair, honest, engaging - super combo 👍
Thank you very much you're very kind my friend. Please take care
I never go to celebrity chef restaurants. $10 for a teabag, must be joking. I cant tolerate music in restaurants, soft background is ok, but what is it with the loud noise. I went and had breakfast at my local and they had the music on loud and told the young waiter to turn it down, cant even hear how to order. Ridiculous. From Australia 🇦🇺
Gordon is very critical of other restaurants, maybe he needs to do a review of his own?
It's to drown out the customers complaining about the food
It’s all marketing, Gordon was called out long ago. Not for me.
It's so you can't hear people chewing on the bacon.
@@TheTacticalHaggis😂😂😂
@@TheTacticalHaggis Funny comment and youtube name 😂
No wonder its empty. Going same way was Jamie Italian overpriced and after a while people stop going
Jamie Italian place in Cardiff was terrible, thankfully it went out of business and closed down.
Most of Jamie food was out of a tin or plastic bag....my brother was a manager...I never ate...even for free..😄
@@tomfitz-tm6tzyou lied
People arnt going to pay for crap like this anymore and a large part of that is due to people like Gary. There's no way I would visit this "restaurant" after Gary's review .
Same here!
He’s not just letting himself down he’s letting his customers down and that’s selfish and thoughtless 🏴🏴❤️
I agree Margaret
He's now just another celebrity chef just like all the others before him
It's a running theme for his resteraunts, these days. He's just chasing easy money now. He doesn't care
Gordon should spend less times reviewing other restaurants and more time reviewing his own!!
All well Gary? Thanks as ever for your review! You do a great job and provide a really valuable service to the general public. Your reviews are always fair, well balanced and well presented. It's way past time when someone came into our view who could expose the chef spoofs and con artists who operate only for the greatest profit with the smallest input. Greed Greed Greed! Well done!!
Much appreciated!
I’m a chef in a high end restaurant and this is unbelievable really. Love your channel Gary
Thank you Nicholas
@@GaryEats you are more than welcome 🙂
Don’t waste your time in future Gary
Keep it independent More interesting and far better food 👎👎👎
Glad YOU didn’t use the “F” word
I would have
Thank you and I try to show awareness as these restaurants are very popular online
@@GaryEats Thank goodness you say it as it is 🤗🤗
@@GaryEats Gordon doesn't need the publicity, there are lots of good independents that need help.
100% behind you here mate, i have had better food at a road side caravan than the top names.
IMO it’s a double edged sword, whilst I whole heartedly agree to not giving airtime to these places but I’m very grateful to Gary for taking one for the team in showing us them and giving an honest review to maybe make some people think twice about going there 💕
I had a belly buster breakfast the other day from my local cafe. It cost £10.00 and it was much better than that breakfast. My belly buster had 3 sausages 3 hash browns 4 pieces of bacon black pudding white pudding beans tomatoes and mushrooms 2 eggs 4 pieces of bread and 2 fried bread. I also had a pot of tea included in the price.
Now that's much better value Steven, this is just a rip off
yeah so many good cafs and vans out there doing way better for way less
At least we now the answer to that cry "who ate all the pies" :-) Well done, I couldn't have finished half of that !1
Where did you put it all. Do you have a big belly ?
And I bet they love to take cash, straight in the trouser. And the location would be ...
Gordon Ramsey's gone crazy in his new videos. Spaghetti appearing out of nowhere, rotund, using live chickens. Turning everyone into "idiot sandwiches." The guy's maniacical now.
Indeed
If you're referring to the A.I. videos of Gordon Ramsey, I would agree, lol 😅
My pet peeve in restaurants is the loud music blasting through the speakers and i love listening to heavy metal..Wish the food matched the quality of the service staff. Great review as always. Enjoy the day everyone.
Gary asked over and over why the music is so loud, especially with so few people in the restaurant. There's the answer to his question. I think many restaurants turn the volume of the muzak up when there are very few diners to give the false impression that the place is bustling with activity. I also notice that it often takes longer to be served and to pay up when the restaurant is nearly empty. No restaurant wants to appear deserted.
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Those hash browns look like Supermarket freezer ones! Surely for the price they should be doing rostis!
The very same ones it seems
They looked very familiar. I'm thinking McCains probably supply most of the catering industry
I’ve only been one place that sold fresh hash browns made from scratch and it was a very high end place.
Everywhere else has what appears to be frozen.
Indeed ❣️
Yup. They've come from brake brothers food supplies.😂 The sausage looks like some Richmond sausage too
I'd be upset if I had paid a tenner for that rubbish.
Truly shocking
Totally agree. That sausage looked cheap and certainly not cheerful 🫢
More like £4.50
For that food you should eat at castle
I'd be upset if I got it for free and they gave me a tenner.
I am a first time, viewer, a world traveler, and I just subscribed. Great commentary.
Those are freezer hash browns. Pathetic. £19? Repulsive. 😂
I agree with you 100%
@@GaryEats This is absolutely for 'Murrican tourists who just want the Gordon Ramsay Reality TV Experience.
I would expect home made from Ramsey!
Dont knock frozen hash browns! Shouldnt be on this breakfast tho
There's a place in Fleet, Hampshire (Won't name it) that does a full English for £12, and I thinks that's too expensive.
£19 for a BREAKFAST !!! And they have the balls to use frozen hash browns ! Also i remember Gordon Ramsey once saying that if you cannot poach a runny egg you dont deserve to work in my kitchens . £4 + for a T-Bag from Asda ... Good job Gordon for charging silly money for an overrated chef .
I don't mind spending that or more on a meal if it's worth it
Who said it’s frozen hash browns? Garry didn’t.
@@chucknorris-en2hn hes full of himself
@@rickroll9086 i said its frozen hash browns ... i was a chef for 20 years in various countries and the hash browns on his plate are exactly like the premade frozen hash browns most suppliers sell . Plus while i worked in USA every morning i had to make hash browns , its a simple job and takes no time to cook and minimal time to prep .
Jumping RIGHT IN to the defence there!! 😂 You know if you to into law you can get paid to give whatever opinion your client pays you to have
Ramsay doesn't have to give a shit, he's a multi millionaire. These places will just keep dishing out shit and people will pay for it!
Gary I love watching your productions they are very informative and interesting. It's great to get the honest opinion of someone who knows about this. Hope you have a wonderful day from Northern Ireland.
That’s wonderful to say thank you Gary
Now listen Gary. You are a positive person with a positive channel always giving a FAIR review. This was a FAIR review. I’m so annoyed that you are annoyed because you are only being FAIR! Gorden Ramsey is totally out of order with whatever way he is running this place or franchising it. You are blameless. End of rant. 👍
Thank you very much Philip, very kind of you
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So weird , why are you so upset about a food review
Well I wouldn’t expect you to understand I suppose. I’m not weird (I don’t think) It’s not the point. I’ve followed Gary for a long time now and this is the first time he sent food back. He takes one for the team. The man’s a gentleman and to see him so visibly upset pissed me off especially when he simply gave an honest FAIR review. I hope this helps in some way. 👍
@@philipmckeon8944 he gets paid to review food, some of it good, some of it bad, but it’s just a UA-cam video, no need to get so invested
1st class reviewing, honest and to the point. Just the truth.
Thank you very much
The fact that Gary didn’t want his poached eggs redone because he was afraid of what the kitchen would do says a lot about the restaurant industry and its culture. Not good at all.
Just made me a tad nervous that's all
I once listened to a well known food critic on the radio a few years back, he stated never, never send food back. Just enjoy what part of the meal you like, pay the bill and leave.
@@GaryEats I can honestly say I was a freelance Chef and now run a Chef recruitment company. I can honestly say food is barely ever tampered with, in 8 years I probably seen it once and reported it before it was sent to a customer. Im sure it does happen, but most Chefs get ashamed when things are returned.
@@swally125yes I agree, I've worked in kitchens for 20 years. I've never seen food tampered with that was sent back. It's quite the opposite they try to make the meal better.
It's surprising how the general public thinks there food will be tampered with in my experience this never happens.
I think those eggs had been made a lot earlier , stored in cold water, and finished off when ordered.
*If anyone should have learned from Ramsey's tv shows is that you cut back portions and triple prices.*
That is a very good point
Only one sausage? Wtf?
It wasn't a good one either
@@GaryEatsIt looked like a value range sausage 🥴
I've had high end breakfasts with one sausage, but it was a huge sausage and you didn't leave hungry. That was a mediocre looking normal sized sausage.
That was a smedlys sausage.
@@GaryEatsit looked thin
Of all the food reviewers on UA-cam I think Gary is probably the one that would benefit establishments the most. Talk about a voice of the people, I don't think I've ever seen anything here that I outright disagree with, ever.
That is very kind to say thank you very much
Cheap sausage, cheap cut of bacon , cold beans and I would have expected a genuine hash brown , not triangle frozen ones. The scrambled egg looked lovely and the poached eggs were very sad. The best part of the meal was the staff. G R should be ashamed of himself.
Sorry you had such a bad experience and a costly one.
Thank you for a great review our Gary. Have a restful evening and day tomorrow sweet x 😊
Thank you so much Maria. Hopefully better is on the horizon
@@GaryEats I'm sure there's much better on the horizon and I sincerely wish that for you. Thank you and your Son again for a great honest review sweet x 😊
You are bang on Maria! You also get your points across much more succinctly than I do in the comments. 😅 I hope you have been able to relax & enjoy your time by the sea. Take care sweetheart & catch-up with you soon. 🌷💕
Hello my darling Erin , thank you sweet. You did make me laugh, I do have a habit of waffling lol so this comment of mine made a change from the norm lol.
I'm having a lovely relaxed time thank you sweet . I hope you're doing ok yourself and also so happy to see you on here as I felt your absence xx
Please stay safe and rest when you're able. Catch up soon.
Much love darling xx 🦋💐🌹❤️
@@butterflydiva1 You waffle alot less than I do! 😅 I'm sure when Gary sees me pop up in the comments, he thinks "oh, here we go" as he proceeds to press the "read more" button 🤣
Thank you, I'm doing OK. My work is changing at the moment so I might have to play catch-up on a few reviews here & there.
I'm really glad you are having a relaxed & wonderful time. I hope the break & change of scenery has been rejuvenating for you.
I'll email soon & please take care. You are a lovely & special presence here on the channel. 🌷💙
Thanks for being my inspiration Gary ❤ I love food channels, and I'm sick of influencers lying about how "great" a place is that has paid them to be there. I've started my own channel because of you, so thank you for being yourself 🥰
I wish you all the very best, email me if you need any help 👍
@GaryEats You are an absolute sweetheart 💖 Thank you 😊
Spot on review!!! You literally said everything I was thinking! So funny at the end when you felt like tossing away the receipt 😅made me giggle 😂
That is very kind unfortunately I was a bit annoyed on this one
Stumbled on your channel with Clarksons Pub and I'm hooked! This is how food critique should be. No unnecessary waffle. As for the nasty online comments...F..them. keep up the good work Gary and keep feeding the camera man!
Thank you so much my friend, yes lots of nasty comments on this video but used to it now 😀 have a lovely weekend
That is an absolute disgrace. They’ve been very sly calling it an English Breakfast, rather than a Full English Breakfast, so they can charge extra for the black pudding.
good eye
It does say Full English Breakfast on the bill
@@MarianneExJohnsonYeah, 17:15 if anybody pauses the video.
I'm glad you sent it back AND your honesty. You're not afraid to call it out when the food is sub standard.
Thank you very much Lynn
I hope cameraman enjoyed his mushroom , your generosity is overwhelming 😅😅😅
one mushroom 5 quid........
Lol!!!! Well, there wasn't much to share tho!! Tea ridiculous price!!
They used it as a Frisbee in the field behind ...
The lone mushroom looked like the best part of the meal. 😉
😂😂😂😂
I've had better breakfasts than that for six quid.
SickSquid breakfast.
had a better in the army
Same here!!! Shocking.
Honestly, a bog standard Wetherspoons brekkie isn’t much different to that!
@@Money4NothingUK same here
Best food review channel on UA-cam. No nonsense just all about the food. No wonder you got over 150k subs in such a short time.
Thank you very much Michael
How nice to hear an honest review - both the pros and cons. Thanks for being fair.
Hello, Gary. Here for the second time. I agree about the loud music in restaurants. I can't stand it. It just makes being there less pleasant, and it's almost never a variety of music I would want to listen to anyway. I avoid places with loud music. The breakfast appeared to me to be pretty decent, although a bit overpriced. I get a nice breakfast here (in Canada) at a local "middle class" sort of place, and it includes 4 small sausages, three fried eggs (done whichever way you want them...including scrambled if you want that), 2 slices of rye toast (cut into 4 halves) with butter and jam, a drink ($2 tea, $2 coffee or a free glass of lemon water), and a generous serving of REALLY good old-fashioned home fries...not deep fried, not frozen stuff cooked in hot oil, but pan-fried from freshly sliced raw potatoes. It's nothing unusual, and it costs just under $20 Canadian ($11.14 UK pounds). Now, you've got a larger breakfast there with some fancy extras (like the poached eggs and avocado on bread part)...so it is going to be more expensive. The poached eggs did look a bit overdone....they should've been softer...but I wouldn't call them hard-boiled. I'd call them halfway between "normal poached" and hard-boiled. It sounds like the scrambled eggs were really good! And that's fairly rare, I think. Now...the bacon. You generally specify here in Canada just how you want the bacon to be cooked. Lightly. Medium. Or crispy. And I like it lightly done. So all they have to do is ask the customer "How do you want the bacon?" when you order the meal. I'm surprised that they don't. Or that the customer doesn't tell them in advance. All in all, I think I'd have been okay with that meal, but there is room for improvement and it's a bit overpriced....but that figures! It's a Gordon Ramsay restaurant in London. I can't afford a trip to London, and I probably can't afford to eat frequently at Gordon Ramsay restaurants....but at least I can vicariously enjoy watching you do it for me! 😄
One thing I wonder with these reviews. It's best to eat hot food as soon as it arrives at your table, because it's not nearly as good after it has cooled down some. I sometimes worry that the intro takes a bit too long, and the food has started to cool off by the time you're tasting it, which means it's not going to be nearly as good as if you'd tasted it right away. What do you think? I think it's a factor worth considering when doing these reviews. I know you have to do an intro, but I'd get into eating the food a little faster, so it doesn't have time to cool down.
Note: I am not talking in silly quasi-Cockney fashion now. I just do that occasionally, because it's fun. But not this time.
Thank you very much for your wonderful comment George. There is no need to worry because I always eat the food very quickly so it is hot.
Gordon should get 3-4 undercover people to pose as customers. when the meal is ready and served Gordon comes in and tries all his dishes with his kitchen staff all gathered... and grills the hell out of his own staff.. now that would be good TV
The English breakfast must have been cold when you got round to eating it.
@@patbloomfield888 I’m not eating anything. But if you meant when Gordon eats it, I don’t think that matters. In Kitchen Nightmares or Hell's Kitchen, when all the dishes are prepared, they are laid out on the table for quite a while before being taste-tested.
Someone should be grilling the shite out of Gordon not him doing the grilling. He's responsible for it.
Dammit! You've just pinched my Idea! I was thinking the exact same thing. Well, technically it's your idea I guess as you thought about it first 😂😂
Better yet get a respected chef to come in with a TV crew, represent the establishment on national TV in the worst possible light, for entertainment value. This ending any hopes the owner has for turning the business around.
Pricey, & £4.25 for a tea bag.
Ludicrous
£4.25 for a tea is a disgrace.
Yeah that's nuts, you can't make tea gourmet it is what it is.
Yeah, but the water was pure unicorn tears, gathered in a full-moon, poured on a teabag woven from spun platinum threads, by a host of unsullied virgins, so well worth the money! (either that, or chlorinated sewage from old father Thames, like wot the rest of us drink.)
It's £1.50 at truck stop hut in the middle of nowhere with 1 staff/owner
It does seem excessive but it's London
And with all restaurants costs its not meant for us working class
If they can't even cook an egg, couple pieces of bacon and toast a bread, wtf they can do?😢
I'm really not sure but the effort was non existent
They can wank in your re-order. Run...
Yoghurt...
Charge lot of money from you?
Cereal? Croissants? (bought).
You have just convinced me never to go to a celebrity chef's restaurant and you have saved me a fortune. Thanks Gary! 😊
Any time!
...that breakfast is laid out like something you would get in a hostel for free.
Zero care and thought
I had better at a hostel lol!
😂🤦🏽♀️
You mean hostel the horror movie?
I do better poached eggs than that!!
I think the cameraman does better than that and he doesn't cook
To be fair must of us could do better poached eggs
@@graememorgan9278 well, they might not look as good but they might well be soft and taste better.
@@GaryEats🤣🤣🤣
Looks like the poached eggs were made earlier and then reheated to order. Quite shameful, considering they only take a matter of minutes to cook from fresh
The City of London (the square mile) was almost exclusively, independent cafes, bars, restaurants back in the 90s........and were nearly always quality.......its now full of overpriced shite like these.
We’ve gone backwards in every aspect of
@@Koutsimouka Yip.... Thanks to Communism.
@@leavemyrightsalone you wouldn't know what Communism is even if it hit you in the face.
Well said
Birminghams Mosely road in Highgate used to be full of cafe's in the 90's and were amazing value and the food was excellent. The community war mainly asians from India and Pakistan and they cooked British food to perfection in those days. A breakfast this size would cost as little as £2.00 no word of a lie! Never had a breakfast with only 1 sausage ever!
Excellent Vlog, my nephew is a Head Chef and what you said about sending items back I totally agree after what he told me once.
We were at a family BBQ and he was talking about Items being sent back. now I don’t know if it was a few to many G&Ts but i have always kept that in mind. Similar to what you said “send it back but don’t ask for a replacement”.
Keep up the great work
I am a bit nervous sending food back and asking it to be redone
Hi Gary, I think it's time to avoid these TV chefs and focus on family or solo run restaurants. Your best meals have been outside of TV chefs. 👍
Of course Roger, I try to bring awareness to certain restaurants to save people money
@@GaryEats Go to the places where the families that own the place, deserve the money. We know the name above the door doesn't really work by now. Enjoy the food you review, for the Cameraman's sake.
Gordon Ramsay.....Hang your head in shame 😞
Rip off....£19!!!!
You'll get a BETTER
Breakfast in Wetherspoons 🍳🧇
i doubt gordon has anything to do with the restraunt except the name. franchise will be owned by someone else
To be fair the spoons food is cheap and cheerful. Comes with a beer or all you can drink coffee.
Never let me down
You could have a large spoons breakfast and 4 pints of larger for £19!……..and no Music!
@@ToySoldier-qg8yq It is properly owned by him and one of his companies he owns. But clearly delegates to other people making decisions and they do seem to run things as though they are a franchise.
I wouldn't go that far😆
Honestly looks like something you’d get for £6 out of Morrisons or another supermarket canteen.
Less than that regarding cost sometimes. Many places do it well but not at that price.
The Beard has done breakfast challenges with 10 times as much on for the same price ish lol looked better cooked too
Morrisons breakfast actually looks better than this and probably tastes better aswell
Nope Morrisons breakfasts both look better and cost less than half that for the Full English/Scottish and I've had enough of them to know and moreover I'd choose Morrisons breakfast over that
We have a restaurant near me that also delivers you can get 3 eggs, 3 hash browns, 3 sausages, 3 bacon, 3 tomatoes, 3 fried bread and baked beans for £12.99
We have a nice cafe near myself, they will do takeaway but no delivery.
3 sausage, 3 bacon, 2 eggs, beans, tomatoes, mushrooms, black pudding, 2 toast, 2 fried toast . 8.99 and the bacon ain't no streaky small bacon, its full back bacon thick slices. Pot of tea is only 2.00
You forgot the heart attack!
That is expensive
@@seltaeb3302 Exactly..Everyone needs to do the intermittent fasting. I have and still do. I am 58 and feel 30
@@wecandothiswarriors have breakfast for £10 round. At supermarket
1. Frozen triangle hashbrowns
2. Campbell's pork & beans
This was a disgrace
Nothing would possess me to put any money in Ramsey's pockets.
Totally agree 👍
I wouldn't put any of my money in Gordon F*****ing Ramsey's pocket.
I know his brother and his brother said that he was a horrible person and completely responsible for his spiralling down and not being there for him !
@@thatvampirelorraine doesn't surprise me at all, I can't watch him his attitude stinks
@thatvampirelorraine Yes, because drug addicts always take accountability for their actions and never blame others! Clown.
... Did you just say £5 for a piece of black pudding?!
Check out £4 for a side order of tepid beans or a Mushroom 🤣🤣
Lol I can get 6 bury black puddings for that price on clitheroe market.
looked like they were from iceland.
@@RogerRabbit-b6q£4.25 for a single tea bag in a pot! I've just bought 240 tea bags for a fiver, that's 2p per tea bag.
I did... staggeringly
A 19 pound breakfast should include tea or coffee...
Agreed
I used to have my own cafe, truckers would come in and order full English with cup of tea and I would go out and give them refill for free.
Love you Gary 🤘🏼🙌🏻 keep up the good work!
Thank you very much 👍👍
He’s worth over £100 million and it’s still not enough. Utterly contemptible.
It's all about the almighty Dollar 💵 🙄🤑😠😡🤬
I mean, they're franchises. He probably has nothing to do with them, but sure. Personally, I wouldn't go to these rubbish franchises, I don't know why anyone does other than maybe needing to show off. Just go to decent local restaurants for Pete's sake.
Unfortunately avarice has gotten the better of Gordon Ramsey. Shame on the hypocrite.
@@kiriakoz hi from Australia 🇦🇺 totally agree with you there! You would think though like Gary said having your name and face plastered everywhere 🙄 😒 you would take some pride 😤 after all it's GR namesake! I prefer the little village pubs that have Bern run by families 👪 for decades or longer!
@@kiriakoz Puts his name to it, that's enough.
Absolutely disgraceful, fiver for a cup of tea ☕, one average looking sausage, horrible crappy bacon 🥓,a slice of toast,a few beans, hash browns that don't belong on an English breakfast the tomatoe looks extremely small and horrible and a
Mushroom 🍄 what a rip off,rip off Ramsey, could you imagine his reaction, but the scrambled egg looked absolutely fantastic, but massively over priced, good video gary i certainly won't be going anywhere near that place 👍
Ramsey is the new Dick Turpin !!!
I completely agree with you Sidney, not good enough at all
Too many of these celebrity chefs rip off customers with the prices and sub standard food...crazy when people like James May, Neil Morrissy, James Blunt and Connor McGregor are ALL doing it better in their pubs!
I agree with you Gibbo
McGregor's black forge pub had a loss of 2 million quid in three years.
Good man. Honest review, exposing blatant extortion
Thank you very much and I completely agree with you
I know you find it hard to give bad reviews, but if you are giving a genuine review you must be prepared to give an honest opinion and if that means a bad review then so be it. They are in business and their product or service must be value for the money you are charged.. so well done you.... its about time you stood up for customers. If the food isn't what you expect.. send it back... If you buy anything that isn't as described or reaches the standard you expect, you send it back... Period
Of course but I much prefer a positive channel than a negative one
Exactly 👍 sadly we live in a get rich quick world, I'm personally sick of food places asking top prices for crap. SEND IT BACK and go somewhere else.
@@GaryEats You are such a nice positive thinking guy Gary and all credit to you for that but if you put yourself forward as a reviewer giving an honest opinion on which many people will base their choice, you must be absolutely honest in your experience, good or bad and not shirk away from giving a poor (negative) review if one is warranted otherwise people will begin to lose trust in your judgement.. Of course you prefer to give a positive review but you now have over142,000 followers and people are beginning to look and trust you to give an honest review. If an excellent review is called for, then shout it from the rooftops but if the opposite is true don't be frightened to call them out. Keep up the excellent work and lets look forward to your 250,000th subscriber in 2025... Here's to you Gary and I hope you have many happy meals in the months and years to come..
Thank you very much
How you doing Nigel?
Great, honest review Gary! Well done! 😁👏🏼👏🏼
Thanks 👍
Imagine paying £4.25 for a teabag
Talk about getting teabagged
I’ve always liked Gordon. I visited Petrus and it was exceptional. He was one of my inspirations for becoming a chef, but that breakfast is absolutely appalling. And the majority of brits probably wouldn’t bother returning the meal meaning we would have walked out of there nearly £50 lighter and thoroughly disappointed. It’s treating customers like idiots. That breakfast should be cooked with the freshest ingredients from local butchers and suppliers at that price. What a shame. Keep up the good work Gary. New subscriber!
I really like Gordon as well, Jason, but I think he sold himself out, just interested in the money now
That's what I thought too . If everything was top-notch organic and plenty of it , I wouldn't mind the cost , but this is just taking the piss
Even a Wetherspoons breakfast is better than that.
Had a miners Benedict at Wetherspoons today. The poached eggs were on par with Ramsay’s. I have no idea how a professional cook can f**k up poached eggs
I think you might be right Christopher
@@andyfullmast1034 #PING said the microwave. Did it come with a dead canary?
@@andyfullmast1034To be fair to the Wethercooks, the poach eggs arrived pre poached and get warmed up. But at least you leave Wetherspoons fairly well fed for the price.
I agree...the amount of times that the Wetherspoons breakfast has saved me from a hangover...(ok, being able to have a pint of hair of the dog at half six in the morning helps... :p)
Another celebrity chef ripping customers off. I would rather support a local business than be disappointed again by a celebrity restaurant! Good work Gary and I think a 3 was very generous! £19 and you only get 1 sausage 😂 That’s embarrassing!
You and me both!
Imagine serving that on Hell’s Kitchen ?? You be out the door 😂
An Aussie journalist brought Ramsey on to talk about a steak he had at one of his restaurants and Ramsey lost his shit and left. Ramsey is another hypocrite in his industry. It's why he always fails whenever making non Western food and always gets laughed at.
Awesome video. My son and I ate at bread Street kitchen and Edinburgh a couple years ago. We had a great dinner no problems at all (beef Wellington for two) it probably the best Customer Service hands-down that I’ve ever received at any restaurant anywhere in my lifetime. One small hiccup is that we didn’t like one of our cocktails - not the restaurant’s fault it just didn’t suit our tastes. Our server gave us a brand new drink at no additional charge. Nice. ….Not long after we arrived back to our hotel room I discovered the restaurant completely credited my entire meal in full. That was completely unexpected and not necessary as they gave us a replacement drink for free. Needless to say I wrote a glowing review afterwards. 😊 but £19 for a breakfast? Maybe if it included champagne and a jazz brunch vibe would it be worth that kind of money. Anyway, enjoy your videos. Have a nice day.
Thank you very much my friend.. take care
I feel like his own restaurants are going to feature on Kitchen Nightmares at this rate
That’s a rough arsed £4.99 brekkie at best. Maccies is an upgrade on that 😂.. thanks for sharing… fair and balanced as ever. Camera man’s gonna have the mushroom sounded like a threat 😜
The problem with these places is they aren't true Gordon Ramsay restaurants. He owns them but he never gets involved with a lot of them. He just licenses out his name and it's a shame because it tricks people into thinking they're getting food made to GR's standards and most of the time they won't. He just doesn't do 'casual dining' restaurants very well. I mean come on ,the chef here can't even poach an egg.
Agreed and it's incredibly frustrating given how many people eat at his Bread Street restaurants
No excuses for Gordon. You do something well or not at all. No half measures in the restaurant biz.
@Toffee, that's mean is you. Of course the chef can do poached eggs well. It's just that s/he overdid them that time.
He doesn't own them. Just his name above the door.
Imagine how much it would cost to actually OWN them! He'd have to be richer than Gary 🙂
They're clearly more than happy to charge as if they are really run by the celebrity.
Nothing better than good manners. Keep up the good work.
Thank you very much, John
Obviously a franchise. The name is obviously worthless.
"Obviously a franchise" nope, Gordon Ramsay Restaurants Ltd owns them all, and Ramsay & his wife are the sole shareholders.
Yep no more Ramsay in the UK for me Terry
He’s clearly not your mate Gary!! 😂 No friend would serve you that. Let’s face it Gordon now cashing in.
I think Rick and Gordon don't like me very much lol
@@GaryEatsThey should, they won’t learn anything from a good review. 😉
I'm pleased you sent it back Gary but I think both should of been sent back in all honesty.
I'm not getting food envy so it's definitely not good xx
@GaryEats imagine if Ramsay was doing one of his TV shows...and he arrived and was served that overpriced poor quality food. He'd have gone mad!!! I'm afraid I've no time for these celebrity chefs. They're cashing in on their reputation at your expense, self indulgent self serving greedy individuals. Oh, BTW, Tom Kerridge has put his name to an M&Sbeef pie for one....selling for 7 quid!!
@@majorminor3367 Ahh, a fellow Bald Foodie Guy appreciator i see :D - You've got a great point, if Gordon visited this place on Kitchen Nightmares he'd kick off, that Bacon looked awful to me, and I personally think, no matter how nice the scrambled eggs may have been, that a bit of yellow food colouring was added to make it look more vibrant... The whole thing looked like a cheap Amercian Breakfast with added Beans.
I thought it was "You, get what you pay for," in there " You, don't get what you pay for."
To think, with black pudding nearly forty-three quid?
Gary,that review in my eyes was absolutely spot on
👍
I really appreciate, thank you
Looks like Gordon needs to visit his own restaurants for kitchen nightmares…….practice what you preach Ramsey 😂
So true
Hi Gary. Ramsey is a multi millionaire because of his career in the TV industry. Yes he is probably one of the best chefs in the country and he’s cashing in on that. I hate to think what that restaurant pays for the privilege of being in that franchise. The only winner is Ramsey, no one else and you and the public are paying for it. Your correct my friend, don’t go to any more of his so-called establishments! There are far better breakfasts out there at half the price. Good vid for calling him out, well done. Regards Dave M.
Thank you very much Dave
Pretty sure a majority of serious chefs do not consider him one of the greats, seeing how he doesn't even cook at his restaurants (his media empire does the heavy lifting in keeping him in this conversation). He's just a dishonest businessman masquerading as an elite chef.
@@wgwerghwreherhe6088 I agree with your opinion now but back in the day he was quite good!
Gordan isn't even that good of a chef, marco is better.
You've put me off a Ramsey restaurant for good!
He has put me off his restaurants completely Simon
0:11 There's no way anyone with more than an ounce of common sense is paying £19 for THAT.
that is why it is empty lol
Plus VAT
Yep, walk a few hundred meters find a back street and help out the poor sod charging 6-8 quid for better quality and double the amount.
I'll go a step further. You have to be positively brain dead to pay that for THAT !!!
@@JERKEP78under your mums bed;)
Cold beans, cardboard bacon, sausage that has never been near a pig , and a mushroom the size of a Frisbee... mmm, mmm... and £4.25 for a cuppa 😮.. Definitely a Kitchen Nightmare...
"sausage that has never been near a pig". That's a classic!
100% agree about the music. It's like being in a nightclub first thing in the morning. Breakfast was very average - no better than what you might get for £10 from a greasy cafe.
Totally agree!
Ex fine dining chef here, You were spot on pretty much with your review, Substandard breakfast for a Ramsey £19 number.
I will say this, in my 19 years in kitchens i never, nor witnessed any other chef tamper with a customers food, regardless of wether we generally think we are always right and that the customers generally are a bain on our lives 😂 but honestly it doesnt happen (that ive seen)
Thank you very much for your wonderful comment as you could see this was cooked by a chef who could not care less, I did not say it in the review but I watched him cook and he was not interested, that is the main reason why I did not ask for the meal to be redone, I think you would understand my reasoning
Gary, I would trust your opinion, it definitely doesn't look like £19.00 breakfast plus the cost of "best cup of tea".
Rip off...
Thank you Alexey