Gordon Ramsay's six-part Netflix documentary Being Gordon Ramsay is now streaming, and with Bread Street Kitchen having opened its doors at 22 Bishopsgate on 6 May — his 100th restaurant globally — the project the series documents is finally complete. Five distinct concepts across multiple floors of one of the City of London's tallest buildings, operating simultaneously under a single roof 250 metres above the Square Mile. It is, by any measure, the most operationally ambitious thing his group has attempted.
The series follows the making of the 22 Bishopsgate project from conception through to trading, and it does not present the journey as a straightforward triumph. The £100,000-plus launch party — attended by approximately 230 guests alongside press and staff — bookmarks one chapter of the story. The harder chapters involve the decisions, disagreements and operational pressures that preceded it, and the series is more honest about those than most restaurant-adjacent television tends to be.
What's Inside 22 Bishopsgate
The five concepts that make up the 22 Bishopsgate operation are each distinct in format, price point and intended audience — a deliberate strategy by Ramsay Holdings to capture as much of the building's varied footfall as possible rather than committing to a single proposition.
Lucky Cat occupies the 60th floor with sweeping 360-degree views across London and a menu of Asian-inspired small plates, robata grilled dishes, sushi and sashimi prepared in an open kitchen and signature raw bar. It was the first concept to open, launching in February 2025 alongside RGR High, and has been fully booked from day one — its Instagram following exceeded 200,000 within weeks of launch. A rooftop terrace for cocktails and late-night entertainment is expected to open later this year, extending Lucky Cat's offer into the evening economy more aggressively than its current format allows.
Restaurant Gordon Ramsay High is the most rarefied proposition in the building: a 12-seat chef's table experience where, as Ramsay puts it, craft and technique take centre stage without the noise of a full dining room. It was also the first of the 22 Bishopsgate concepts to receive formal recognition — earning a Michelin star in 2026, making it the fastest new Ramsay opening to achieve the accolade. Reservations currently book approximately a week in advance, which for a 12-cover operation represents near-permanent demand.
Bread Street Kitchen & Bar opened on 6 May 2026 — nine days ago at the time of writing — and marks Ramsay's 100th restaurant worldwide. It is a more deliberately accessible proposition than the floors above it: an all-day operation opening at 6:30am on weekdays, offering afternoon tea seven days a week and remaining open until 3am Thursday to Saturday for DJ nights. A dedicated sports bar holds a 24-hour licence. The kitchen is led by Kamarl John, formerly of Claridge's, and the menu spans 35 new dishes alongside Bread Street's first ever five-course tasting menu — a significant format extension for a brand previously associated with casual all-day dining.
Gordon Ramsay Academy completes the complex as Europe's highest cookery school, sitting 250 metres above London and offering the kind of aspirational leisure experience that draws a very different audience from the restaurant operation below — and which serves, not incidentally, as a pipeline for food-interested consumers into the broader Ramsay brand.
What Being Gordon Ramsay Shows
The Netflix series centres on Lucky Cat and the early months of the 22 Bishopsgate project, with the first episode establishing the scale of ambition and the scrutiny that attaches to it. Ramsay's own framing — "the eyes of the world are on you and what they see will determine the future success of that business" — sets the tone for a series that is less interested in editorial distance than in access.
What it captures effectively is the gap between what a restaurant looks like at the launch party and what it takes to reach that moment. The operational build-up to opening in a 62-storey City skyscraper — with the logistics, staffing, design and regulatory complexity that implies — is not a story that restaurants normally choose to tell publicly. The series tells it with a frankness that will resonate with anyone in the trade who has opened a site.
The 15-month gap between the launch of Lucky Cat and RGR High in February 2025 and the eventual opening of Bread Street Kitchen in May 2026 is not a small detail. That extended delay — visible in the series' timeline even if not always explicitly addressed — is a reminder that even at this level, with this level of resource and public attention, hospitality projects rarely run to schedule. The series is more valuable to the trade for showing that reality than it would have been for papering over it.
The 100th Restaurant Question
Reaching 100 restaurants is, for any operator, a milestone that invites scrutiny as much as celebration. The question the trade will be watching is whether the 22 Bishopsgate project — which requires five distinct concepts to succeed simultaneously in a location that has historically been challenging for evening dining — represents a high-water mark or an inflection point in the Ramsay group's expansion model.
The City of London lunch market is well-established; the evening proposition, particularly above the 50th floor, depends on destination intent rather than passing trade. Lucky Cat has demonstrated that intent is there. Whether Bread Street Kitchen's broader, more casual format can sustain the same energy in the evenings — with DJ sets and a 24-hour sports bar as the gravitational pull — is a question that the next quarter's trading figures will begin to answer.
The series is worth the trade's time regardless of where that answer lands. Being Gordon Ramsay is streaming on Netflix now.
22 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4AJ. Lucky Cat, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay High, Bread Street Kitchen & Bar and the Gordon Ramsay Academy are all located within the building.