"Price: £260 Not quite loved, but strangely tolerated the world over, Gordon Ramsay has created a mega-brand that includes multiple restaurant franchises of varying bog-standard quality. This makes it all the more surprising that his namesake flagship fine dining restaurant isn’t just competent, but really quite good. Located on a death-wish part of Royal Hospital Road in Chelsea, the inside of this restaurant is dull (cream) but its clientele (motley) and its food (delicious), is not. Let the chef lead with the Carte Blanche menu or go for the classics. Either way, there are brilliant takes on steak and chips, and a decadent lobster ravioli." - jake missing, sinead cranna