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"Another restaurant critic has taken aim at a a celebrity chef. But this time it&amp;#039;s Gordon Ramsay that&amp;#039;s the target for his latest Los Angeles eatery, Fat Cow.   On the heels of the scathing review by New York Times critic Pete Wells for Guy&amp;#039;s American Kitchen &amp;amp;amp; Bar, LA Weekly&amp;#039;s Besha Rodell has called out Ramsay on a number of failures at his Los Angeles eatery, Fat Cow. Rodell, like Wells, chose to begin her criticism with a series of rhetorical questions. &amp;quot;When was it that Gordon Ramsay finally lost me? Was it the increasingly bad, pandering television projects? Was it the botox? Was it the name of his new L.A. restaurant, the Fat Cow, or perhaps his PR team&amp;#039;s silly refusal to admit that &amp;#039;fat cow&amp;#039; was an insult of sorts, especially coming from a British chef?&amp;quot; writes Rodell. While the review is not as harsh as the questions launched at Fieri \u2014 &amp;quot;Hey, did you try that blue drink, the one that glows like nuclear waste? The watermelon margarita? Any idea why it tastes like some combination of radiator fluid and formaldehyde?&amp;quot; \u2014 Rodell does manage to fire off a few rounds. More From Delish: 10 Things You Didn&amp;#039;t Know About Gordon Ramsay &amp;quot;How was the fish? Who knows? All I could taste was glop,&amp;quot; she wrote. To be fair, Rodell does point out what Fieri&amp;#039;s reviewer did not \u2014 the location could explain the kind of fare that&amp;#039;s sold. Fieri&amp;#039;s restaurant caters to a Times Square audience, not a New York Times-reading one. Ramsay&amp;#039;s restaurant is in the Grove, LA&amp;#039;s outdoor shopping mall. The area is riddled with chain stores, but it also has some quality restaurants. The main problem for Rodell was the price. Twenty-eight bucks for a cheeseburger that Rodell described as, &amp;quot;Covered in waxy, congealed, orange-ish cheese.&amp;quot; Rodell also lamented the fries, which were &amp;quot;doused in truffle oil.&amp;quot; Fans of Ramsay know he doesn&amp;#039;t have a love for truffle oil. The Los Angeles Times blog Daily Dish reported in 2011 that Ramsay slammed a contestant on Master Chef for using it. &amp;quot;One of the most pungent, ridiculous ingredients ever known to chef,&amp;quot; Ramsay said. &amp;quot;I can&amp;#039;t believe you&amp;#039;ve just done that. I think you just put your apron up in flames.&amp;quot; Judge Joe Bastianich chimed in that truffle oil is, &amp;quot;a sure sign of someone who doesn&amp;#039;t know what they are doing.&amp;quot; Bastianich came to Fieri&amp;#039;s defense on the Today show after his critic&amp;#039;s harsh words. Will he speak up for Ramsay? More From Delish: Stuffing Secrets from Celebrity Chefs Unlike Fieri&amp;#039;s reviewer, this one did manage to praise the chef&amp;#039;s overall reputation. &amp;quot;Ramsay was the original celebrity chef who refused to become a joke of commercialism,&amp;quot; Rodell writes. But the major offense for Rodell wasn&amp;#039;t the fries covered in chemical truffle oil, it was the price tag . Rodell&amp;#039;s total for two after three cocktails, three appetizers, three entr\u00E9es, and no dessert was more than $200. Have you been to one of chef Gordon Ramsay&amp;#039;s restaurants? What did you think? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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