Gordon Ramsay Net Worth framed by six-part Netflix series and a £20m restaurant gamble
Netflix’s six-part documentary Being Gordon Ramsay has renewed curiosity about gordon ramsay net worth as it follows the chef’s drive to open five dining concepts at London’s 22 Bishopsgate — a project he calls “the most difficult, highly pressurised, ambitious project I’ve ever, ever opened in my entire life. ”
Big build: five venues at 22 Bishopsgate
The series follows Ramsay as he attempts to launch five businesses across the top two floors of 22 Bishopsgate, including a 60-seat rooftop garden with a retractable roof, a 250-seat Asian-inflected restaurant called Lucky Cat, a Bread Street Kitchen brasserie, a private dining space named Gordon Ramsay High and a culinary academy. The project spans 27, 000 sq ft and is shown on screen as a complex, multi-site opening that includes fittings, menu development and staff rehearsals for service.
One episode captures the minutiae of the rollout: prototype aprons, seating choices and menu tastings, and the team rehearsing technical points such as the correct size for a rum baba so it aerates properly. Ramsay’s on-camera line about the stakes — “If it fails, I’m fucked. ” — appears as a blunt marker of how personal the endeavour is for him.
Gordon Ramsay Net Worth and the £20m gamble
The series presents the launch as a sizable personal investment: the project is described on screen as costing £20m, which Ramsay funds personally with bank support. It also shows him juggling the new openings with an international brand that includes dozens of other restaurants, and highlights decisions about guest lists and publicity at openings where social media influencers are invited while construction continues.
Ramsay is credited as executive producer and the series is made by his own production company, Studio Ramsay. Critics in the provided coverage characterise the six-hour run time in different ways, with one describing it as an extended brand advert and others noting it gives an unusually intimate look at both his work and home life.
Family footage and two absent children
Family life features heavily: the documentary includes fly-on-the-wall scenes of Ramsay at home with his wife, Tana, and with his six children. Four of the six children appear in the series; the two eldest do not. Ramsay explains in an interview excerpt on screen that Megan works as a police officer and Jack serves in the Royal Marines, and that their professions make appearing in the documentary impractical for security reasons. He jokes about Megan’s warnings to him and otherwise shows the family interacting — weddings, engagement parties and routine moments such as making pancakes.
Tilly (also shown dropping off at culinary school), Holly and others appear in varying amounts across the six episodes, and the series crosses borders to include scenes of Ramsay’s international projects, including a visit to Hell’s Kitchen Las Vegas.
Being Gordon Ramsay runs six episodes and is streaming on Netflix; all episodes are available now for viewers who want to watch the full build-up and openings at 22 Bishopsgate.
