Enigmatic chef and serial ranter Gordon Ramsay has revealed negotiations have started with Network Seven to bring his Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares series to Australia, even hinting at opening one of his signature restaurants in Sydney off the back of it.

“Channel Seven are absolutely dying to do [Ramsay’s Kitchen] Nightmares in Australia,” Gordan says, with a huge grin.
“So we had an email from them yesterday, and you know what, I think I want to do it!”

His last Australian venture, Maze, launched under the old regime with Ramsay’s father-in-law in charge and lasted barely 18 months. Gordon claims it was destined to fail.

“I got my fingers burnt in Melbourne (at Maze), but that was just a shit deal,” he says.

“We put our own money in, our sweat and tears into the casino. It’s a different beast to running a stand-alone restaurant. It was fucking doomed from the outset.”

But it hasn’t left a bitter taste in his mouth. In fact we may get more then a mouthful of Gordan down under quite soon.

“Yeah I’d go back [to Australia] to open a restaurant, definitely,” he says.

But Sydney or Melbourne?

“In Sydney. Less Arrogance, and they seem to have a little more fun there I think,” he says.

“I know Matt (Moran) very well and I think we are talking to Channel Seven over the next week, and you know we have a lot of support down there and that’s been developed over the last 12 years. So we’ll see.”

Chatting in Dubai to launch his 31st restaurant, Bread Street Kitchen at The Atlantis, Gordon waxed lyrical about the essence of his TV programs.

“At the end of the day it’s entertainment and I get in trouble because I’m a little bit too honest,” he says of his on-screen raves.

“On [Ramsay’s Kitchen] Nightmares you have the idiots that think that they deserve to be cash rich because they have a restaurant and on the back of a dinner party they deserve to be successful,” he says.

But even Ramsay concedes that there are genuine individuals who he does help, and for those even he can’t save, it leaves him genuinely heart broken.

“I do feel so sorry for them because they’re good people.”