22 Bishopsgate will feature the restaurants Lucky Cat, Lucky Cat Terrace, Bread Street Kitchen, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay High, and the culinary school Gordon Ramsay Academy.
Lucky Cat is a 250-seat Asian-inspired restaurant, while Lucky Cat Terrace has 60 seats in a rooftop garden with a retractable roof. Restaurant Gordon Ramsay High is a 12-seat fine-dining restaurant, and Bread Street Kitchen will be an all-day brasserie.
Ramsay said he wants to make sure 22 Bishopsgate has “some of the best restaurants in the world.”
“It’s sort of one of my final stakes in the ground, something I’m going to be best remembered for,” he added.
Ramsay, who has a 20-year lease on the building, called it one of the “most fraught projects I’ve ever done.”
“The pressure with this project is that if it doesn’t go to plan, it’s my neck on the line, and I have to guarantee that every penny that we’re borrowing, if it doesn’t work, I have to pay that back personally,” he said.
“We have to create something incredibly special to keep alive for 20 years, without a doubt.”
Read the full article here
