Gordon Ramsay\'s Restaurants

Since 1993, Michel Roux Jr has been successfully running the world-famous Le Gavroche in Mayfair. He has never been an empire builder like Marco Pierre White or Gordon Ramsay and, as a result, you could always depend on him being in the kitchen on Upper Brook Street.

May 27 (Bloomberg) -- The Langham is offering afternoon tea at 1865 prices -- the equivalent of seven pence (roughly one shilling six pence or 10 U.S. cents) -- on June 10 to mark the 145th anniversary of the first such service at the London hotel.

Ed Battaglia, 30, of Burlington County is one of 16 cooks who will take on one of television's most demanding taskmasters when the seventh season of "Hell's Kitchen" premieres next week.

Scottish by birth, Gordon was brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, from the age of five. With an injury prematurely putting an end to any hopes of a promising career in football, he went back to college to complete a course in hotel management.

Neighbour from hell: Jamie Oliver is opening a restaurant at One New Change next to St Pauls Cathedral. Gordon Ramsay hopes to take over the roof terrace