Devilish Chef Opens Hell's Kitchen in New York

When the pro soccer player went for a career as a chef, little did he know about the success he would meet in both the UK and the US. First, Gordon Ramsay did a couple of television series in England, 'Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares' and 'The F Word' and then he moved to America only to encounter here a very positive welcome to his 'Hell's Kitchen' series.

Fox picked up the series, featuring around two teams of wannabe chefs engaged in a bitter struggle to earn Ramsay's favors and, ultimately, the big $1 million prize, their own restaurant in Los Angeles. The show did more than good in all the ratings, the main reason for that being that it finally knocked to pieces the myth of the English gentleman.

Teaching amateurs how to run a restaurant, swearing at them and making them feel as the utmost scum of the earth was, by far, an easy job for chef Gordon. But the wheels always keep on turning and the devilish cook got to face the greatest challenge of his life this week, when he opened his restaurant in New York City.

'Gordon Ramsay at The London' is just one of the ten establishments that make up for the chef's culinary empire but, still, opening it is the biggest gamble he took in his entire career. 'The biggest. The till has to start working. New York is an expensive place to survive', the 40-year-old chef/reality star told the Associated Press.

It's yet too early to cast a prognosis on how the restaurant will work out. But Ramsay is confident that business will go well... it just has to.

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