Social justice warriors try, and fail, to dunk on Gordon Ramsay’s ‘authentic Asian’ restaurant

Published February 13, 2019 6:37pm ET



Gordon Ramsay’s newest restaurant, Lucky Cat, will open in London this summer, but the social justice crowd is already giving it terrible reviews. Ramsay announced that that Lucky Cat will be an “authentic Asian Eating House” that is “inspired by the drinking dens of 1930s Tokyo and the Far East,” with Chef Ben Orpwood at the helm.

Critics say that Lucky Cat cannot possibly be an “authentic” Asian restaurant, even though Orpwood is a renowned chef best known for his pan-Asian seafood dishes.

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