Green, who said he’d be back to try the restaurant again, added: "The gorgeous glass door doesn’t quite close, the bathrooms don’t lock, and the lighting is pitiful."

The New York Sun’s Paul Adams also had problems with the lobster ravioli.

"A creamy fennel sauce amplified the delicate shellfish flavor magnificently, but the sweet meat had that rubbery chew that signals overcooking," he wrote.

He added: "My meatless companion’s mushroom risotto was a distinct disappointment."

Gordon, 40, will still be waiting for the New York Times’s highly influential critic Frank Bruni to give his verdict.

The writer’s rating of between zero and four stars is said to be able to make or break an eaterie.

A spokeswoman said the chef was unavailable for comment today.

Chef’s wife finds recipe for TV success - Dec 12 2006
Gordon Ramsay’s wife Tana has landed her own TV show on cable and satellite channel UKTV Food.

She will co-host The Market Kitchen along with Tom Parker Bowles, son of the Duchess of Cornwall, and Clarissa Dickson Wright - one half of the Two Fat Ladies - plus chef Simon Rimmer.

The daily magazine show will be broadcast from a specially created kitchen at London’s Borough Market and begins in April.

The show is from the makers of Gordon’s TV hit Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares.

Tana, 33, a former teacher, has already followed in her husband’s footsteps by publishing a cookbook and writing a food column for a magazine. This is her first major presenting role.

The Market Kitchen is billed as "a totally new kind of food magazine show".

It will focus on seasonal food and feature interviews with Borough Market’s stallholders.

Members of the public will be invited to stop by and try out recipes.

’Kitchen nightmare’ chef jailed - Dec 7 2006
A chef who featured on Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares has been jailed for theft.

Philip Lee, who was head chef of Morgan’s restaurant in Liverpool, was filmed rowing with the celebrity chef in an episode of the Channel 4 show broadcast this week.

The 30-year-old, who was described as a "self-taught", was criticised for burning sausages and eventually replaced by his kitchen assistant.

It emerged that he was jailed last week for stealing cheques from a former employer - the trendy Viper Lounge bar in Warrington, Cheshire - and cashing them at a pawnbrokers.

Lee, from Anfield, admitted three charges of stealing cheques and three charges of obtaining a money transfer by deception.

He was sentenced at Liverpool Magistrates to three months imprisonment for each charge, to run concurrently.

John Carsfield, owner of the Viper Lounge, said: "We took him on as head chef but he started stealing cheques from the company book.

"He did small amounts at first but then he got bolder and we noticed something was wrong. He took about three and a half thousand pounds in total."

Mr Carsfield said he never wanted to see Lee again but did defend his cooking ability.

He said: "I haven’t seen the show yet but I’m surprised to hear that Gordon Ramsay criticised him for being a bad chef, because if there’s one thing he could do it was cook.