At Gordon Ramsay restaurants, one obsesses over micro details. Hyper-vigilance is embedded in a three-Michelin chef’s DNA and has a trickle-down effect — no matter that the Gordon Ramsay Restaurant Group operates 88 restaurants around the world. Read More
Gordon Ramsay Steak is the celebrity chef’s second Canadian restaurant and both are franchises in casinos operated by Great Canadian Entertainment
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Gordon Ramsay Steak
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Where: 8811 River Road, Richmond
When: Dinner, Monday to Sunday
Info: (604) 247-5411 | Gordon Ramsay Restaurants
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At Gordon Ramsay restaurants, one obsesses over micro details. Hyper-vigilance is embedded in a three-Michelin chef’s DNA and has a trickle-down effect — no matter that the Gordon Ramsay Restaurant Group operates 88 restaurants around the world.
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“Gordon is a stickler for detail,” says Rohit Kulkarni, exec chef at the newly opened Gordon Ramsay Steak in Richmond’s River Rock Casino. “We stack our pans in the kitchen after service and he wants them at the same height and equidistant from each other. Same with the plates, bowls, et cetera, which we stack to the same height, during and after service. It reflects the mind of the chef.”
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Visual order begets mental and emotional order, right? I feel that in my own kitchen, although my pans and plates are more free range and lazy.
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“He’s a perfectionist, 100 per cent,” Kulkarni says.
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Gordon Ramsay Steak is the celebrity chef’s second Canadian restaurant and both are franchises in casinos operated by Great Canadian Entertainment. The first, Gordon Ramsay Burger, in Coquitlam, opened in 2023.
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“It’s not an owner-operated (franchise) but we have regular calls and report everything to them daily,” says the Gordon Ramsay Steak operations manager, Todd McKenzie. Ramsay’s corporate chef visits often, he says.
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Ramsay’s Las Vegas restaurants proved casinos bring constant foot traffic, tourists and revenue. About a month after their Feb. 21 opening, the steak house — by no means a casual spend with prices similar to the likes of Elisa and Gotham — was doing about 300 covers on weekdays and 350 on weekends. After an estimated $15 million renovation, the 266-seat restaurant boasts a spacious lounge and bar area, a more intimate dining room with a slot view into the busy kitchen, and a terrace by the Fraser River.
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Kulkarni was primed to head the Gordon Ramsay Steak kitchen, with experience as head chef at Black and Blue steak house and as exec sous at Michelin-recognized Jacob’s and Co. Steakhouse, both in Toronto. Ramsay allowed Kulkarni more than the usual amount of creative freedom and, so far, Kulkarni has added a miso marinated maple-glazed sablefish with napa cabbage, bok choy, shimeji mushrooms and shrimp dashi to the Ramsay steak house menu, appealing to the abundance of Chinese diners. And upon learning that Kulkarni grew up in Mumbai, Ramsay wants to see Indian influences on the menu.