Gordon Ramsay's chefs find it hot work at his New York restaurant

Gordon Ramsay knows what it's like to be in Hell's Kitchen, but now his customers and staff are finding out what it's like too. While Britain's most famous chef opened his new restaurant in New York called Gordon Ramsay at the London without the whiff of scandal, despite some trouble with the unions over the distribution of tips beforehand, an email sent to New York foodie blog eater.com pointed out that if the diners found the restaurant a little hot, there was a good reason as the air con wasn't working.

The email reads as thus: "The AC isn't working yet at either the restaurant or the bar. So the polished nickel wasn't the only shiny precious thing in the space last night. Gordon Ramsay is threatening to shut the restaurant down if they can't get the AC on."

With this footnote explaining the source was unknown and the content unverified: "Totally unverified, of course. And yet intensely pleasurable all the same. Those with RESYs tonight: dress light."

However, while the foul-mouthed chef's profile is becoming almost as large across the pond as it is on the UK ... see this article posted in the New York Sun that gives some idea about what New York papers are saying about his arrival...... his latest venue has opened and it went without a hitch, well apart from being slightly sweaty, or so we are led to believe.