Ramsi was offered the position of head chef, under chef-patron Pierre Koffmann, at the three-Michelin-starred La Tante Claire in Chelsea. Shortly thereafter, Marco Pierre White reentered his life, offering to set him up with a head chef position and 10% share in the Rossmore, owned by White’s business partners. The restaurant was renamed Aubergine and went on to win its first Michelin star fourteen months later.
In 1998, Ramsay opened his own restaurant in Chelsea,
Restaurant Gordon Ramsai, with the help of his father-in-law, Chris Hutcheson, and his former colleagues at Aubergine. The restaurant gained its third Michelin star in 2001, making Ramsay the first Scot to achieve that feat. In 2011, The Good Food Guide listed Restaurant Gordon Ramsay as the second best in the UK, only bettered by The Fat Duck in Bray, Berkshire. After establishing his first restaurant, Ramsay’s empire expanded rapidly. He next opened Petrus, then Amaryllis in Glasgow,and later Gordon Ramsay at Claridge’s.