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Gordon Ramsay Maze and Maze Grill opening in Melbourne Australia on March 29. Now bookings can be made exclusively via “Dimmi’ and the the Australian Good Food & Travel Guide – that’s right, no phone booking are permitted.

Get in ahead of the vast queues expected using this service which is free and reserves the time, place and table and number of guests immediately and at any time of the day!

To book for Maze click here

To book for Maze Grill click here

Australians – get booking now!

Chief Plonker
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A new marketing campaign is promoting cheap meals at Gordon Ramsay restaurants throughout the UK. At the time of writing lastminute.com has discounts at six of the numerous eateries within the Gordon Ramsay empire (as well as having great reviews, photos and general information about each location). On offer until February 28 were the following bargains;

foxtrot oscar, london 2 or 3 courses from £18

the warrington, london 2 courses for £18

boxwood cafe, london 2 courses for £21

the devonshire 2 or 3 courses from £18

the narrow 2 or 3 courses from £18

the york and albany 3 courses for £20

At another website TopTable.com, all of the Gordon Ramsay restaurants are similarly profiled (as well as being ranked) and currently the only deal on offer is at:

Gordon Ramsay confirmed that Josh Emett will be the  Chef de Cuisine Maze and Maze Grill at the Crown Metropol, Melbourne Australia, as well as overseeing the bar, the health spa and in-room dining.

Josh Emett has been a loyal servant of Gordon Ramsay’s and is responsible for Gordon Ramsay at the London New Yorks two Michelin stars (which took him some 10 months to win!), He is also responsible for a Michelin star in its sister restaurant in Los Angeles as well as the Savoy Grill in London

Get the full story here

Chief Plonker
The Plonker Club
The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite
www.theplonkerclub.com

Follow us on twitter at @theplonkerclub

With locations in London and New York City, Gordon Ramsay’s Maze restaurant focuses on quality ingredients, imaginative flavor combinations, and simple preservations. The dishes are served in small portions, enabling patrons to savor a wide variety of tastes in one visit. This cookbook gives readers the opportunity to cook the Maze way. But it is more than a collection of the restaurant’s best recipes. The book explains how each dish would be served in the restaurant, following which additional recipes are offered using the same ingredients. Each signature dish — for example, Braised Shin of Veal with Pea Risotto and Butter-Roasted Cod with Silky Mash and Spiced Lentils — is followed by two additional recipes using the same ingredients and geared to the home cook. Covering starters, entrees, and desserts, Gordon Ramsay’s Maze shows how to make meals both artful and delicious, all highlighted by Ditte Isager’s gorgeous photographs.

The book will be released in October of this year, published by Key Porter Books – Pre order your cop now by clicking on the above links.

We’ll have more information on the specifics of the cookbook as they are released!

Chief Plonker
The Plonker Club
The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite
www.theplonkerclub.com

The lengths that some people will go to when trying to impress people or appear to trump a celebrity. We all know that Gordon Ramsay is anal when it comes to food quality (that’s how you get three Michelin stars in one location, not mention multiple others!), so here some moron thinks that he can take advantage of the Gordon Ramsay some of us know and love from television, and question the food quality from one of his own restaurants.

I thought I’d seen it all when a female reporter from Channel Seven in Australia chased Gordon into his hotel and tried to instigate something by asking dumb questions (I’m a woman – have you got anything to say to me Gordon? in response to the circus surrounding Tracy Grimshaw). Well this one takes the cake.

Some idiot sits next to an alleged food critic who orders a well-done steak (crap detector goes wild). The alleged food critic is amazingly surpised to find that the meat is tough and rubbery. The claim is that this scene takes place in Gordon Ramsay’s Maze restaurant in London. Then the idiot presenter shows Gordon Ramsay a photo of the steak, in Australia, months later and asks for a comment, thinking he has the great chef cornered.

Gordon politely tells the guy he is a tool and explains why people don’t order well-done meat if they want to actually taste the cut they have ordered.

Well done Gordon – you kept your temper – which is precisely what this knob hoped you wouldn’t do. Amazing reporting moron – you’re a special for A Current Affair or Today Tonight – trashy, set-up reporting, pity it backfired!

Here’s the clip if you could be bothered – I won’t even link to it, then they don’t get the credit – you’ll have to copy and paste yourself.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,,25744851-2,00.html

Chief Plonker

The Plonker Club

The Unofficial Gordon Ramsay Fansite

www.theplonkerclub.com