TV rescuer Ramsay looks to save Girl
SUPERSTAR chef Gordon Ramsay is in Sheffield this week with a rescue plan for the failing Runaway Girl restaurant and music bar in a new series of his Kitchen Nightmares TV show.
And boss Justin Rowntree is hoping he's not going to get a mouthful of expletives.
"It's mental here. We are in full flight," said Justin at the Arundel Street restaurant."Right now I am on a roller-coaster. I don't know which way it is going to go."
But the young restaurant boss had been forbidden by the programme makers to discuss Ramsay or the show.
Ramsay, with a whole constellation of Michelin stars in his apron pocket, and a penchant for swearing, has been asked to bail out the restaurant and music bar. It runs a tapas menu alongside live music, with performers four nights a week.
Justin, who opened in October 2005, has been having his own nightmares this month.
The Girl's trading company TRG Venues Ltd went into insolvent liquidation and he has set up another company, S-One City Limited, to continue trading. And the restaurant's website had difficulties.
Justin has blamed some of his problems on the bar's location but it is just a stone throw from Hallam University's city centre campus.
Filming normally takes between four and seven days.
There are uncomfirmed reports that the Runaway Girl will be relaunched on Friday.
Ramsay has been working with chef Richard Russell.
The show is not scheduled to be screened until November at the earliest.
The building, originally belonging to silversmith George Ellis, whose name is still on the front, was previously the ill-fated jazz Club One Eleven restaurant.
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