| Bread Street Kitchen | |
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  The location of the restaurant within Greater London | |
| Restaurant information | |
| Established | 26 October 2011; 13 years ago (2011-10-26) |
| Chef | Gordon Ramsay |
| Dress code | Casual dining |
| Street address | One New Change, 10 Bread Street, London EC4M 9AJ |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 51°30′49″N0°05′42″W / 51.513570°N 0.095015°W /51.513570; -0.095015 |
| Website | www |
Bread Street Kitchen is a restaurant owned by chefGordon Ramsay within theOne New Change retail and office development in London.
The restaurant cost £3 million, and the opening was delayed by a year and was subsequently expected to open on 26 September 2011. A week prior to that date,Gordon Ramsay posted onTwitter, "Holy Cr*p 1 week to go! Not to sure if we are going to make it on time."[1] It actually opened on 26 October,[2] located nearSt Paul's Cathedral in London, inside theOne New Change retail and office development across two floors.[2][3] It is next door to one ofJamie Oliver'sBarbecoa restaurants.[3] The interior of the restaurant was fitted out by Russell Sage Studios using reclaimed materials and exposed concrete struts.[4]
It was announced in June 2014 that Ramsay intends to replicate Bread Street Kitchen in a new restaurant inHong Kong, due to open in the following September.[5]On 23 June 2015Gordon Ramsay officially opened Bread Street Kitchen in Singapore, atMarina Bay Sands. This marks his first foray into Asia. On 4 June 2015Gordon Ramsay announced he will be opening Bread Street Kitchen inAtlantis, The Palm Dubai during the autumn of 2015.[6]
After spending three years in Lan Kwai Fong, Bread Street Kitchen Hong Kong has moved into a prime real-estate space atop The Peak atThe Peak Galleria in February 2019.[7]
The restaurant is fitted out with an open kitchen, a raw bar and a wood-burning oven.[8] It has a wine balcony storing 2000 bottles.[2] Dishes on the menu include a burger made of beefshort ribs, amutton pie, as well assuckling pig.[2]
Food criticJay Rayner visited the restaurant forThe Observer in October 2011. He described it as "loud and brash", but enjoyed several dishes such as asea bass withauberginepurée, and a veal chop which he thought could have been improved by resting it longer. But he thought that thetamarind chicken wings were overpriced and of poor quality, the burger on the menu was "overminced to a paste, destroying both flavour and texture".[9] He felt that the restaurant might improve with time.[9]Tracey MacLeod said that "nearly everything ... was good" in her review inThe Independent.[4] She liked the burger and suggested that that mutton pie was going to become the restaurant's signature dish. She found that her server wasn't as familiar with the menu as she would have liked, and that the service was very slow.[4]
The review inMetro gave the restaurant three out of five, but said that this was based on the interior and not the food. It said that the veal chop was "weirdly truncated and misshapen, as though it had a slab shaved off to appease the bottom line" and the crab tagliolini was "cat food".[10] However, it did praise the chicken wings and the venison with sour cherries andceleriac purée.[10]
Time Out magazine gave the restaurant a rating of four out of five,[3] howeverHarden's restaurant guide gave it a score of four (where 1 is high and five is low) for food, ambience and service and said that it was "nothing special".[11] Tanya Gold visited the restaurant nine months after it opened forThe Spectator, saying that the service was fast and remarked positively about the food she tried.[12]
