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Finding the best place to eat with Gordon Ramsay
Itâs definitely a great day to look forward to when you get the chance to meet Gordon Ramsay, one of the most famous chefs on the planet
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It's definitely a great day to look forward to when you get the chance to meet Gordon Ramsay, one of the most famous chefs on the planet.
The chef, who rose to world fame for his roles in various high-rating reality TV cooking shows such as Hell's Kitchen and Master Chef, is in Singapore with some great news for foodies.
Together with Marina Bay Sands president and CEO George Tanasijevich, Ramsay announced he would join the ranks of other international chefs at the Marina Bay Sands with his first Southeast Asian installment of Bread Street Kitchen, to open at Marina Bay Sands early next year.
The chef looked sharp in his dark suit and his presence was far from intimidating. In fact, he was very funny and quite chatty.
'I'm perhaps a little late, joining now, but as with cooking, it's about how you finish,' he said, laughing when asked why he had not opened the restaurant sooner.
'The expansion into Asia is an exciting move for us and will see our successful London concepts being transferred and tailored to the new market using local ingredients too,' said Ramsay.
He explained the restaurant would avoid mega pricing and would add something unique to Marina Bay Sands' restaurants with an industrial warehouse concept featuring British and other European cuisines.
Instead of a 10-course meal, he said, Bread Street Kitchen would be about casual, fun dining with great salad and steak dishes.
'I like to start slow and small, then grow to many layers,' he said of his restaurant.
On his traveling style, Ramsay said he liked to explore low-profile neighborhoods and move away from the central attractions.
'In Asia, Ramsay said the best food was found in many local eateries and in street food.'
He also shared his tips on how to find the best place to eat.
'I always ask hotel staff or local cab drivers where to visit. They give you the best insight, before the place begins to get hyped up,' he said.
He then told of how he'd been introduced by a female French cab driver to a restaurant in a low-profile area of Paris that turned out to serve the best monkfish dish he'd ever tried.
In Asia, Ramsay said the best food was found in many local eateries and in street food.
While in Singapore, Ramsay officially opened a cooking competition between four young Singaporean culinary school graduates to win an internship at the soon-to-be-opened Bread Street Kitchen.
He asked the contestants to cook three egg dishes ' a classic soft-boiled egg, an omelet and a poached egg.
At the end, the judges; Ramsay, George Tanasijevich and MBS' executive chef Christopher Christie, named 21-year-old Koh Han Jie as the winner. (Icha Rahmanti/jakpost.travel)
