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Gordon Ramsay’s empire grows with 5 new openings in City of London tower 22 Bishopsgate

Chef-entrepreneur opening 3 restaurants, a bar and a cookery school on 60th floor of 278-metre tower, all charted in a Netflix documentary

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The view from Gordon Ramsay’s Lucky Cat restaurant on the 60th floor of 22 Bishopsgate. The chef is expanding his empire with the opening of this, two other restaurants, a bar and cookery school in the City of London’s tallest skyscraper. Photo: Instagram/millykr
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It has been a busy few weeks for Gordon Ramsay.

He took time to film a Super Bowl advertisement with actor Pete Davidson and then make po’ boys – a sandwich originally from the US state of Louisiana – for broadcasters at the big game in New Orleans. The activities personify his curious amalgam of roles: part television chef, part brand ambassador, a headline generator and, ultimately, an entertainment industry bigwig with star power.

Those ever-evolving characters are in evidence at 22 Bishopsgate, where Gordon Ramsay Restaurants has taken a 20-year lease for, count them, five new ventures in the tallest skyscraper in the City of London.

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There is a new outpost of his “Asian-inspired” restaurant Lucky Cat; a 12-seat chef’s-table version of his three-Michelin-star Chelsea flagship, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay; a cooking academy; a 60-seat Lucky Cat Bar; and another brasserie-style Bread Street Kitchen, which is expected to open later in the year.

As you would expect from a savvy media operator, the twists and turns of the lead-up to the openings can be tracked in a forthcoming Netflix documentary, Being Gordon Ramsay.
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