Top New York critic gives lukewarm review to TV chef Ramsay

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NEW YORK (AFP) — Celebrity television chef Gordon Ramsay, who opened his first US restaurant in New York in November, got a tepid review Wednesday from probably the city's most influential food critic.

Frank Bruni, who writes for the New York Times and is reputed to be able to make or break a restaurant with one review, gave the fiery Scot's new restaurant at the London Hotel in Midtown Manhattan just two out of four possible stars.

Ramsay, familiar to television viewers in Britain and the United States for screaming obscenities at chefs on his shows "The F-Word" and "Hell's Kitchen," instead found himself on the receiving end of the criticism for a change.

"For all his brimstone and bravado, his strategy for taking Manhattan turns out to be a conventional...