I Felt I Was Going Off My Rocker ; Ian Pengelley's Venture with Gordon Ramsay Was a Disaster, but the Innovative Chef Is Back with the Biggest Pan-Asian Restaurant in Town

Evening Standard - London › June 07, 2006

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WE ARE sitting in the huge gilded dome that is to become the biggest pan-Asian restaurant that London has ever known.

Gilgamesh has taken over the Camden Market Stables area and opens this Saturday. We being me and Ian Pengelley, the culinary fallen hero who has risen again like a ginger phoenix.

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I Felt I Was Going Off My Rocker ; Ian Pengelley's Venture with Gordon Ramsay Was a Disaster, but the Innovative Chef Is Back with the Biggest Pan-Asian Restaurant in Town

Once again he is talking animatedly and with a new friskiness. "I am flexing new muscles that I didn't know I had. Five hundred people all sitting down at the same time; I won't get stressed at all. I'm not scared at all." He pulls a face to the contrary but for Ian Pengelley the past year has been made of much scarier stuff...

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