Gordon Ramsay Plane Food
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The sign outside the entrance to Gordon Ramsay Plane Food
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 The location of the restaurant within Greater London
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| Established | 27 March 2008 |
| Current owner(s) | Gordon Ramsay |
| Head chef | Andrew Winstanley |
| Chef | Gordon Ramsay |
| Food type | European cuisine |
| Street address | London Heathrow Terminal 5 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 51°28′22″N 0°29′15″W / 51.47278°N 0.48756°W |
| Seating capacity | 175 |
| Website | www |
Gordon Ramsay Plane Food is a restaurant owned by chef Gordon Ramsay and located within Terminal 5 of Heathrow Airport, London. The restaurant cost £2.5 million to build and due to its location within the airside area of the airport, there are restrictions on the use of gas and the types of cutlery which may be used. It opened in 2008 alongside the rest of Terminal 5, and with several other Ramsay-related openings that year. Ramsay said that he aimed to keep the menu lean without the use of heavy sauces, and menus are also offered for quick dining as well as takeaway cool boxes which contain a three course meal to be eaten on a plane.
Critics have been mostly positive, although one initial poor review by Jan Moir was picked up by the mainstream media. The concept of the cool boxes was also praised. It was Ramsay's first airport-based restaurant, and in 2013 he announced that he was planning to take the concept to a number of airports within the United States.
Gordon Ramsay Plane Food is located on the sixth floor of Terminal 5 within Heathrow Airport, London, next to the Wagamama restaurant. It is airside, meaning that only passengers who are about to go on a flight can access Plane Food. The restaurant cost £2.5 million to set up, and Ramsay signed an initial lease for ten years with the airport. The chef patron of the restaurant is Stuart Giles, who had previously worked at Ramsay's Boxwood Cafe. Since September 2015 Executive Chef is Andrew Winstanley.
The interior is decorated with a marble bar, above which hangs a painting by Barnaby Gorton worth £90,000. There are large windows at one end of the restaurant, which look out onto the airport itself. The restaurant has a seating capacity for 175 diners.
As with all restaurants at Terminal 5, Plane Food cannot use gas equipment due to safety reasons and so electric ovens and hobs are used instead as well as a single microwave. The cutlery is also a standard airport size so that the knives cannot be used as weapons. Ramsay requires that staff who are working at Plane Food must gain work experience in another one of his restaurants first.
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