EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Gordon Ramsay causes fury after a vegetarian is served a very ‘fishy’ salad
Gordon Ramsay once publicly told his teenage daughter, Tilly, that if she became a vegetarian, he would never forgive her.
Now, the foul-mouthed television chef has been upsetting diners at his Mayfair restaurant by slipping fish into a dish labelled ‘vegetarian’.
One diner at the Gordon Ramsay Bar and Grill ordered the ‘classic Caesar salad’, which had a ‘(v)’ next to it on the menu.
This is the universally recognised symbol for dishes that contain no meat or fish.
After the diner noticed that it tasted distinctly fishy, he demanded to speak to a member of staff.
The employee is understood to have been unsympathetic, claiming that it was impossible to serve a Caesar salad without anchovies in the dressing.
‘Staff insist that vegetarian options can include fish, which is ridiculous, and is not indicated on the menu,’ says journalist Jessica Abrahams, who is a relation of the diner in question.
‘He’s not eaten meat or fish for a decade and is very upset,’ she says of her dining companion.
‘Not to mention this could be an allergen issue. I would have expected better from a Gordon Ramsay restaurant.’
One diner at the Gordon Ramsay Bar and Grill in Mayfair ordered the ‘classic Caesar salad’, which had a ‘(v)’ next to it on the menu
Ramsay failed to respond to my inquiries, but the restaurant has since amended its menu, removing the ‘(v)’ sign from the dish.
The Vegetarian Society is not impressed, telling me: ‘Anchovies are fish. Vegetarians don’t eat fish.
‘This salad is not vegetarian and is labelled incorrectly.’
Glaswegian Ramsay has a history of provoking vegetarians.
He once admitted feeding them a soup made with chicken stock, insisting they found it more delicious than the plant-based alternative.
And on his TV series Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, he tricked one vegetarian into eating a pizza with parma ham hidden under the cheese.
Ramsay laughed at the man while asking if he would like more, and told the restaurant’s chefs that they had ‘converted a vegetarian’.
He’s probably this country’s second most recognisable cleric after the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Radio 4 presenter the Rev Richard Coles claims his popularity means he could get away with almost anything.
I’ve sort of been nudged towards national treasure — or borderline national trinket status, as [my late partner] David used to call it,’ says the former musician-turned-Strictly star.
‘And the thing is, once you’re in that frame, I sometimes think I could burn down my own church and people would go: “Oh, what a lovely blaze.”’
Elson regrets those diva days…
Supermodel Karen Elson, who appeared topless in those memorable Jean Paul Gaultier perfume ads, admits she regrets being a diva on set.
‘All of us have to talk about how our actions affect others,’ confesses Elson, 42, who was discovered at the age of 16 by a model agency boss in Manchester.
Supermodel Karen Elson, 42, who appeared topless in those memorable Jean Paul Gaultier perfume ads, admits she regrets being a diva on set
‘I’m sure I’ve had moments where, on a bad day, I’ve been a f****** diva and maybe hurt somebody’s feelings.
‘It’s so interesting how it can be praised on one hand, and then it’s like, wait, actually that’s not cool.’
Ivy Getty shows off £6,000 dress with a-plume
Standing out at a party full of supermodels and Hollywood stars is no mean feat, but heiress Ivy Getty carried it off with aplomb. Or should that be a-plume?
The great-granddaughter of Jean Paul Getty, the oil tycoon who was once the world’s richest man, turned heads at model Natalia Vodianova’s charity gala in Cannes this week by wearing a £6,000 sheer dress with black pheasant feathers designed by Jean-Louis Sabaji.
Ivy Getty, 26, turned heads at model Natalia Vodianova’s charity gala in Cannes this week by wearing a £6,000 sheer dress with black pheasant feathers designed by Jean-Louis Sabaji
Ivy, 26, tells me: ‘I love wearing bold looks and I was honoured to wear his design.’
In just four months’ time she’s marrying London-born tech whizz Toby Engel, but demurs when I ask if she’ll sport a similarly striking look for the wedding: ‘I cannot disclose anything now, but I am very excited for it.’
The wedding will be held at the San Francisco home that once belonged to her grandmother, Ann Getty.
Looking forward to reading a book by failed Labour leader Ed Miliband? No, me neither.
But at least someone’s been paid to do it.
Miliband has revealed in the House of Commons register of MPs’ financial interests that he received £1,230 to narrate the book by publisher Bodley Head for the audiobook version.
It’s called Go Big: How To Fix Our World. Poor Miliband couldn’t even fix Labour.
Baby puts the brakes on Oscar winner Emerald
She must be the hardest-working woman in showbiz, but now Emerald Fennell is forcing herself to take a break — to have her second child.
‘After this baby, which is due in a couple of weeks, I’m taking two months off, which I didn’t do for the last one,’ says the 35-year-old daughter of society jeweller Theo Fennell.
Emerald Fennell, 35, must be the hardest-working woman in showbiz and is expecting her second baby
As well as writing and directing Promising Young Woman, for which she won an Oscar, she penned the second series of Killing Eve and played Camilla Parker Bowles in The Crown.
She’s also worked on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella, which opens next week. She admits: ‘The last three years have been a whirlwind.’
Princess Margaret’s partying on Mustique is the stuff of legend.
And now it’s been revealed that David Bowie had the Queen’s sister removed from a bash at his villa on the private Caribbean island because she was three sheets to the wind.
The rock singer’s artist friend Edward Bell says: ‘He was telling me about a party he’d hosted in Mustique.
Princess Margaret had been invited – and got so drunk that he had to have her chucked out. I said, “Oh dear, she sounds as bad as some of these pop stars.”
‘He took that badly and walked straight off.
‘Then I got the silent treatment for a while until it was all forgotten. He wasn’t fond of being teased.’
As we descend on our local pools in the warm weather, broadcaster Fi Glover warns of growing ‘lane rage’ among swimmers.
‘Imagine the fright if someone pulls you under by your feet, while yelling about how you’re in their way,’ she says.
‘I can vouch for it happening at my local lido, where I swim nearly every day. ‘It’s not the fast lane that causes the bother – it’s the second lane.
They won’t go in the fast in case they can’t keep up, yet they’re happy to ruin your swim by crashing past or shoving you out of the way.’
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