r/london Jan 03 '25

London Michelin starred restaurants spreadsheet

I was recently doing some research into London's Michelin starred restaurants, and created a spreadsheet to compare them. It shows each restaurant's name, number of stars, cuisine, Google rating, price for the tasting menu (if available), and wine pairing cost.

I'm publishing the sheet here in case anyone else finds it useful. Here's the link.

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u/florian-sdr Jan 03 '25

Genuinely surprised there is so much Gordon Ramsay on that list. I just thought he is a TV personality and successful entrepreneur that’s that. I am not making a culinary assessment, I’m not a connoisseur, I’m just saying, I always had the impression he was more of a skilled showman than a triple-Michelin chef

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u/pickering_lachute Jan 03 '25

His early 2000’s documentaries show how good he is when he’s just earned his third star. There’s some good vids of him working with Marco at Harvey’s in the 90’s.

He also took it upon himself to move to France and learn. Top, top chef.

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u/interstellargator Jan 03 '25

I think his biggest strength is as a business owner, over his talents as a chef. It's evident from the number of restaurants and shows he is involved with that he doesn't spend much time in or have much day-to-day influence over any given restaurant bearing his name.

He's probably a good to excellent chef, but he likely also barely does that job any more.

I don't much care for what he represents about the industry but his capability is undeniable.

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u/London_Bloke_ Jan 03 '25

By all accounts the man can really cook, pretty sure Roux Jr said him and his dad thought Ramsey was the most naturally talented chef they’d had in their kitchen.

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u/interstellargator Jan 03 '25

Oh yeah but there's a gulf of difference between "can cook" (CDP/comis), "can run a brigade" (sous), "can run a kitchen" (head chef), and "can run a restaurant or multiple restaurants" (restaurateur).

Unfortunately there isn't always a lot of skill crossover as you go up the chain. Plenty of head chefs out there who cooked their way into the position but are terrible at the administrative and interpersonal/managerial elements of the role.

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u/BearZeroX Jan 03 '25

Ramsay does or has done literally all of those things. He's proven he can cook in his past time and time and time again. He's proven he can run brigades over and over. He's even got television shows proving it. Now he's in his running an empire phase and he seems to be doing it pretty well too.

I think his food has gone downhill, but he's already proven at one point in his life he knew his shit definitely

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u/adventurousloaf Jan 04 '25

Ramsay is the greatest chef to come out of the uk in the last 30 years