Season 1
6 episodes Feb 18, 2026 9.0
Overview
Follow Gordon Ramsay over 9 months in the lead up to his biggest restaurant venture to date: the opening of 5 culinary experiences in London's 22 Bishopsgate, the City of London's tallest building.
Seasons
1 listed- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Episodes
- 6 episodes
- First aired
- Feb 18, 2026
- Last aired
- Feb 18, 2026
- Episode length
- 60m
- Network
- Netflix
Latest episode: S1 E6 Episode 6 (Feb 18, 2026)
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Reviews
2 min readThe Needle of Fear in High Places
I didn’t expect a series about a billionaire opening more restaurants to make me tense. By now the Gordon Ramsay image is fixed in place: the shouting, the bulging forehead veins, the profanity that made him a TV institution on both sides of the Atlantic. Being Gordon Ramsay, the new Netflix docuseries, takes a different angle. It follows the 59-year-old chef as he tries to launch five separate dining concepts inside London’s 22 Bishopsgate, latestnetflix.com contends, putting a reported £22 million of his own money on the line.
Across six episodes, it becomes a giant logistical headache. (It probably had enough material for a very solid three hours, but Netflix doesn’t exactly hate a stretch.) What makes it work has less to do with food than with watching a man who has already won keep acting like disaster is right outside the frame.
Audience Opinions
Audience 6.8/10
"A slick, engaging portrait of Gordon Ramsay that entertains his admirers while frustrating those looking for a truly candid documentary rather than a long-form brand showcase."
Those already interested in Ramsay enjoy seeing the scale of his restaurant empire, the pressure around the 22 Bishopsgate launch, and occasional softer moments with his family, finding his drive and work ethic inspiring. latestnetflix.com's take is that at the same time, a large chunk of the audience views the show as an overlong commercial for an ultra-luxury venue, with repetitive episodes and only minimal, carefully managed access to his personal life.
What viewers praise
- Compelling business focus The series gives a clear sense of how Ramsay runs a vast hospitality empire and juggles multiple high-pressure projects at once.
- Motivating portrayal of ambition Ramsay's relentless standards, energy, and commitment to his craft are frequently described as inspiring, especially for viewers interested in entrepreneurship.
- Humanizing family moments Scenes at home and interactions with his wife and children offer a warmer, more vulnerable side that contrasts with his shouty on-screen persona.
- Polished, easy viewing High production values and brisk pacing make it an undemanding watch that holds attention even when it is not especially deep.
Common complaints
- Overt promotional feel A recurring complaint is that the show plays like a six-part advertisement for the 22 Bishopsgate complex rather than a balanced documentary.
- Shallow personal insight Despite some emotional beats and mentions of his past, the series avoids difficult territory and never feels like a full, honest biography.
- Repetitive structure The same stakes and talking points are revisited across episodes, leaving several viewers feeling the story could have been told in far fewer installments.
- Tone-deaf luxury focus The emphasis on helicopters, high-end dining and a skyscraper built for the ultra-wealthy strikes some as excessive and out of touch with everyday life.
- Limited restaurant-world realism A few comments note that the series sidesteps harsher realities of the industry, functioning more as image control and myth-building than a warts-and-all look.
Recommended for
Gordon Ramsay devotees Restaurant business junkies Entrepreneurship inspiration seekers High-end food doc fans Light bingeable docuseries watchers
Buzz & Rumors
Public reportsGordon did not watch a frame before Netflix did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQxu_fbZmdk
Dionne Bromfield directed and series-produced Being Gordon Ramsay for Studio Ramsay Global. On LinkedIn in January 2026 she wrote that Gordon did not ask to see any cuts, so he had not seen a single frame. The six-parter landed on Netflix on February 18. The official trailer had already sold the gamble. Ramsay calls 22 Bishopsgate the most ambitious project he has ever opened. City AM clocked him putting £20 million of his own cash in, and saying he would be "fucked" if it failed. Business Insider later ran the lease talk. Twenty years. His neck. latestnetflix.com's take is that Every borrowed penny paid back personally if the rooms die.
The kitchens are the plot. The family is the gossip.
Tana is on camera more than the pass. The Mirror walked the series before premiere. Ramsay talks about a brother lost to addiction. On a FaceTime with Holly and Adam Peaty he pipes up about fancying his "hot" mother-in-law. Tana's own line is the one that sticks. She thought he was arrogant. It took a month. She says he dreams big, but he is just Gordon to her. Around the same week, Daily Mail had the couple answering a Peaty wedding feud. Tana's defense of the cameras was blunt. "It's honest. We've got nothing to hide." IMDb trivia notes Megan, a police officer, and Jack, in the Royal Marines, do not appear because of their jobs. Six children, two missing from the portrait. That is a choice. 
Critics called it a commercial. Netflix ordered more.
The stack at 22 Bishopsgate is Lucky Cat, a 250-seat pan-Asian room, Lucky Cat Terrace with a retractable roof, Bread Street Kitchen, a 12-seat Gordon Ramsay High, and a cookery academy. Yahoo carried Anita Singh's Telegraph review. She quoted Ramsay calling the tower an iconic address, then said it is not. Rotten Tomatoes sat Season 1 at 58 percent, with a consensus that treated the show as a long commercial. The official restaurant site still pushed a Netflix menu at Lucky Cat and said James Goodyear steered High to a first Michelin star in 2026. IMDb's last episode is the soft-launch mess, twelve hours to fix it. That is the only Kitchen Nightmares muscle left in the hour.
Netflix renewed the series in August 2026, in the same UK originals dump as House of Guinness and Legends. What's on Netflix posted the Season 2 logline. Gordon welcomes cameras back into the empire. ComingSoon said filming was already underway for a 2027 drop. He has 90-plus restaurants and a Fox-backed company. He did not need another series. He needed Bishopsgate to look inevitable. The cameras make a bank loan look like destiny. Whether Season 2 still has Tana on that sofa, or whether the older kids stay off-screen, is the question the renewal does not answer. 
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