UK restaurant groups are expanding across the world, eating up their foreign rivals. John Arlidge savours their success and relishes the cuisine battles ahead

They say the only people who walk in Los Angeles are British or odd. Gordon Ramsay is both. It is 10am and the three-Michelin star chef is walking through the smog-flecked air on Sunset Boulevard on his way to check the progress of his latest restaurant, Gordon Ramsay at the London Hotel (LA), which opens next year.


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