Gordon Ramsay’s flagship restaurant is putting on a Christmas menu for the first time, a three-course lunch inspired by “nostalgic festive flavours”.
Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, in Chelsea, rarely deviates from its signature tasting menus, which vary between lunch and dinner but are otherwise set each season.
But this year the restaurant’s chef de cuisine Kim Ratcharoen has created a Christmas lunch to run throughout December. It will cost £165 per person.
Ratcharoen said she was inspired by Christmas classics when crafting the menu and hopes to “transport guests to their most treasured holiday memories” with her food.
Traditional dishes such as the prawn cocktail have been refined and reinterpreted, scallops come as a side dish among starters, while the likes of artichoke agnolotti are spruced up by black garlic purée, pickled garlic capers and aged parmesan.
The main course is based on one of Ratcharoen’s favourite Christmas dishes, pigs-in-blankets, and comes as a shoulder chop of pork, matured for 14 days and served with white pepper and onion sausage, crushed potatoes with Alsace bacon, and apple sauce.
As for desserts, diners will choose between two, a Christmas pudding souffle or a “showstopping” cranberry trifle bauble made with layers of spongecake, vanilla brûlée, cranberry jelly and buttermilk parfait, all of which arrives enclosed within a bauble-like sphere.
It’s not only the first time Ramsay’s three Michelin-star restaurant is to put on a festive lunch offering, but is also the first year the place is under the stewardship of Ratcharoen, who took over from chef Matt Abe earlier this year.
She is one of many star chefs to lead the pass for Ramsay and follows in the footsteps of the likes of Clare Smyth and Angela Hartnett.
Abe, meanwhile, left to launch his own venture, the Ramsay-backed Bonheur, which opened at the old Le Gavroche site in Mayfair only this month.
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