Gordon Ramsay at the London

I have been at Gordon Ramsay's restaurant a few years ago and was not impressed.  When I got the opportunity to buy some vouchers which seemed to be a great deal, we decided to take our friend Cynthia out for her birthday. The deal included a 3 course meal with a signature cocktail of your choice or a glass of wine.  The birthday celebrant and Gary picked a cucumber cocktail which to me did not look appetizing. Sandi and Sujata had a beautiful ruby red drink; a raspberry with vodka concoction and I settled for a glass of champagne.

For appetizers we had a Risotto with wild mushrooms, quail egg and asparagus that sounded good. This was a disappointment as the risotto tasted like rice that was not done and the asparagus was not to be seen. The other appetizer was Salmon with fig. Gary said he could have had a bigger bowl of that one!

Cindy had the best entree. She ordered the steak and that was delicious. Two of us ordered the Cod on the coconut rice with mussels. The cod did not stand out and the coconut rice was not any better than what you get in a Thai restaurant. The other two had the Pork Belly with lentils and pork rind. According to them, the pork belly was too fat and tasted mushy with a very spongy feel. The lentils did not taste good.

In summary, 1 great appetizer and 1 very good entree out of 5 people is not a good average for any of us to consider going back. To be fare, I have to mention that the Sticky Pudding was very good. We were all to excited we felt we hit the jackpot as we all loved it. I therefore forgot to take a picture in all the excitement,
The question is would we go back to Gordon Ramsey's restaurant? The answer is I'm afraid.....no.  I must say we still had a good time and thank God the birthday celebrant was very happy with her entree .

Gordon Ramsay is not the chef of Gordon Ramsay at the London which I suspected but I think if he still lends is name to the restaurant, he should pay more attention to what the chefs are up to. I am almost certain that if he had to do a blind test on most of  the entrees he would end up having a temper tantrum.... at least while the camera is rolling.