http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/columnists/article5593911.eceWhat on earth is going on at Gordon Ramsay Holdings, the business vehicle of the over-excitable chef? M&C Report, the catering industry journal, discovered that two of his London restaurants, in Chiswick and on Sloane Street, had quietly been put up for sale, and not with the agent who normally acts for Ramsay.
Then his PR people issued a strange statement insisting that neither Sloane Street by Gordon Ramsay nor the Devonshire in West London was being closed, though the Sloane Street lease runs out at the end of the year “when it is unlikely to be renewed”. So are they for sale? The PR people say no. So why were they advertised? I've seen both ads, with details and rents quoted. “I imagine it was an administrative mistake.” Two mistakes? Are you complaining to the agent? “That's not a job for us,” say his PR people.
I ring the estate agent. “I can't comment on it, I'm afraid,” Mark Calder says. But I've got the money, I could make you an offer. He puts the phone down. It is all most odd. If someone wrongly puts your house up for sale, the least you do is complain. And Ramsay isn't noted for being slow to express his views.
