My Buddy Gordon

This is a fairly recent list of restaurants from Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares that have survived; there's a lot of dreck in there from the American version (cough cough cough), but it's sad to see the only ones left of my old classics are the Fenwick Arms, Sandgate Hotel and The Walnut Tree.

I'm almost 100% certain I said this exact same thing on this blog about 15 years ago, but when I become a kazillionaire I'm taking me & Op on a tour of all the surviving restaurants from his original British series. It's a bummer there's only three left, but I still wanna do it.

"But Xmastime", you say in the voice of Craig “Ironhead” Heyward from those soap commercials (RIP), “didn't you become bff with Gordon Ramsay back in 2008?"

Sigh. Yes I did, faithful readers, YES I did:

4:31pm - entering the store, I immediately see I am out of place. Everyone's looking at me, rolling their eyes "yeah, I'm sure you buy $55 avocado slicers, dickwad." There's a big table stacked with copies of Gordon's latest book, "Fast Food." It's a big, beautifully made book that has hundreds of recipes that I will never even see the ingredients to, much less make.  ....READ MORE