London Eye becomes Gordon Ramsay's restaurant for one night

10th September 2009, 9:52am

Chef Gordon Ramsay is to take on the challenge of cooking for guests on the London Eye as part of the London Restaurant Festival (8th-13th October).

Each night over the course of the six-day festival a different chef will cook for 10 diners as one of the London Eye's capsules is transformed into a revolving dining room.

The other chefs taking part are Richard Corrigan, Francesco Mazei, Vineet Bhatia, Endo San and a chef from Zuma. The timing of Ramsay and his peers will have to be just right because each time the capsule completes its 30-minute rotation and returns to ground level, it will briefly stop so the next course can be served.

Tickets for the Gordon Ramsay event on the London Eye will be auctioned at the 'Maggie and Rose Art for Starlight' evening on 26th September. Although a private event, 'foodies' keen to join the fun can place sealed bids in advance. The other five evenings will be auctioned off in aid of Action Against Hunger. Details of this auction and how to place a sealed bid will be released in the next week.

David Sharpe, managing director of the London Eye said: "We are delighted to be supporting the London Restaurant Festival and hosting some of the world's greatest chefs at the London Eye. London's reputation as a gastronomic destination has grown hugely in recent years and is now recognised as one of the culinary capitals of the world. There can be no better way to celebrate the diversity of London's cuisine than by seeing the capital spread out 135 metres below you as you dine."

Simon Davis, co-founder of the London Restaurant Festival, added: "Many things are called 'once-in-a-lifetime' experiences but few genuinely are. We believe that by turning London's most popular attraction into a 'pop-up' restaurant, with dinner prepared by some of the capital's top chefs, we have an event that justifies that tag. 

"In fact we think that people who experience any of the London Restaurant Festival's one-off events will rightly feel they have done something that comes round just once in a lifetime."

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