of p trus in its second location location in city of westminster restaurant information established 22 march 1999 ; 17 years ago 22 march 1999 current owner s kavalake limited head chef neil snowball chef gordon ramsay food type french cuisine dress code smart jeans accepted but no sportswear or shorts rating michelin guide 2011 street address kinnerton street belgravia city london sw1 country united kingdom coordinates 51 29 59 n 0 9 23 w 51.49972 n 0.15639 w 51.49972 ; 0.15639 coordinates 51 29 59 n 0 9 23 w 51.49972 n 0.15639 w 51.49972 ; 0.15639 seating capacity 50 other information nearest station knightsbridge website gordonramsay.com ... p trus is a restaurant in london which serves modern french cuisine . it is located in kinnerton street belgravia and is part of gordon ramsay restaurants owned by celebrity chef gordon ramsay s kavalake limited . it has held one michelin star since 2011 and five aa rosettes . controversy arose when the star was first awarded . it has received mixed reviews from food critics both while in its current incarnation and while it was run by head chef marcus wareing . it was felt that the dishes were sometimes overcomplicated and designed primarily to gain michelin stars . the restaurant was named after the french wine p trus . it is now in its third location and used to be located in st james s street london and the berkeley hotel where it was run by head chef wareing . by the time p trus lease ran out in september 2008 it held two michelin stars under wareing . this resulted in a public feud between wareing and ramsay as wareing took over p trus former location in the hotel opening his restaurant marcus wareing at the berkeley while ramsay retained the rights to the p trus name . contents 1 description 1.1 menu 2 history 3 reception 3.1 ratings and awards 4 references 5 external links description edit the current p trus restaurant is located in 1 kinnerton street belgravia london where it was opened on 29 march 2010 under head chef sean burbidge . 1 he had worked in other gordon ramsay restaurants including restaurant gordon ramsay and gordon ramsay au trianon 2 but it is his first position as head chef . 3 the interior of the restaurant has been designed by the russell sage studio who also worked on other ramsay establishments the savoy grill and the york and albany . the claret red theme of previous incarnations of the restaurant has been maintained and was coupled in the design with leather and polished metalwork . 1 the layout includes a chef s table for six people which overlooks the kitchen . 1 the wine list includes more than 2 000 bottles of wine and includes 34 different vintages of the french wine p trus . 1 they are located in a circular glass room located in the middle of the dining room . 4 menu edit p trus kitchen at 1 kinnerton street the menu at p trus is split into several fixed price menus 5 containing modern french cuisine . 6 it has been described by zoe williams as being distinctly gordon ramsay in composition despite the influences of head chef sean burbidge . 7 the meals come with an amuse bouche a pre starter course and after dinner chocolates in addition to the items listed on the menus themselves . 8 a number of pan fried fish dishes have been on the menu including mackerel with tomato chutney and a ni oise salad and a sea bream course served with brown shrimp samphire and an oyster velout sauce . 7 further seafood related dishes include a langoustine and watercress soup entr e which was praised by food critic jay rayner . 9 sauces are generally delivered to the table in small jugs and are poured tableside . 8 elements of the dessert course are served on dry ice such as small round white chocolate balls of ice cream 7 which has been taken from the menu at restaurant gordon ramsay . other desserts on the menu include a hollow sphere of chocolate which a hot chocolate sauce is poured over to dissolve the sphere in order to unveil the ball of milk ice cream within 9 and a fennel cr me br l e served with alphonso mango . 8 the wine list starts from around 25 and moves up to a 1961 magnum of p trus at 39 000 . 9 history edit p trus was opened in march 1999 as a joint venture between chef gordon ramsay and his father in law chris hutcheson as ramsay s second restaurant after restaurant gordon ramsay in chelsea . 10 11 it was opened at 33 st james s street london on 22 march 1999 under head chef marcus wareing . 12 the name came from the french wine p trus which was ramsay s and wareing s favourite . 13 whilst located at st james s street it was nearby l oranger which wareing had run for a z restaurants which reopened shortly after p trus but with wareing s former sous chef as head chef . 14 giorgio locatelli allegedly caused criminal damage to the restaurant later in 1999 by spitting at the wallpaper resulting in an estimated 1 300 worth of damage however the case was dropped by the crown prosecution service . 15 in july 2001 the expenditure of a group of six investment bankers at p trus made national news in the uk . together they spent more than 44 000 on wine resulting in the restaurant giving them 400 worth of food for nothing . 16 in 2003 gordon ramsay holdings took over location was used to be used by the restaurant vong at the berkeley hotel in knightsbridge london . ramsay signalled his intention to move wareing and p trus into the location after the arrangements between chef jean georges vongerichten and the savoy group were not renewed . this resulted in both restaurants at the berkeley coming under ramsay s control . 17 the restaurant was one of those run by ramsay that he imposed a smoking ban in from 2004 onwards . 18 the berkeley hotel knightsbridge former home of p trus in may 2008 it was announced that the hotel intended to work directly with wareing rather than through gordon ramsay holdings as the lease on p trus location inside the berkeley hotel was due to lapse in september 2008 . 19 this deal resulted in a public war of words between wareing and ramsey 20 with wareing opening his restaurant marcus wareing at the berkeley in the space previously occupied by p trus and ramsay s holding company retaining the rights to the p trus name . 21 wareing described his new venture as being a renaming of p trus . 22 originally it was expected that the name would be transferred to another restaurant already held by the company . 21 a spokesperson for the michelin guide stated that p trus michelin stars would stay with the property expecting that things will change very little when it was reviewed for the 2009 guide . 21 before p trus closed at the berkeley to be rebranded all of the potential customers in the reservations book were contacted to say that their reservations had been cancelled and to offer them a place at another ramsay restaurant . 23 wareing later criticised p trus when it reopened at 1 kinnerton street 24 and said that while any restaurant could be named after a bottle of wine the real p trus remained his restaurant despite the name change . 13 the new location was nearby the former premises but the menu was described as being distinctly gordon rather than marcus . 25 jean philippe susilovic who was the ma tre d h tel for five years at p trus in the berkeley moved over with the restaurant to the new location . 25 p trus has a twenty year lease at kinnerton street . 13 following the sacking of hutcheson by ramsay from gordon ramsay holdings hutcheson attempted to take control of p trus in its new location as he argued that he had listed himself as sole shareholder of the company p trus kinnerton street on the documentation filed with companies house in april 2010 . 11 the issue was settled when ramsay bought out hutcheson s stake in gordon ramsay holdings and transferring the restaurant to ramsay s new company kavalake limited . 26 in june 2014 neil snowball took over from sean burbridge as head chef at the restaurant . 27 reception edit a sea bass main course dish served at p trus tracey macleod ate at p trus for the independent shortly after it opened in 1999 . she thought that certain touches would impress the michelin inspectors and that the dishes were suitably elaborate . 28 jay rayner visited the restaurant whilst it was at the bekerley hotel in 2003 for the observer . he thought that the menu was over complicated and not all the elements of the dishes worked together . 29 gillian glover of the scotsman thought in 2005 that some of the food served was forgettable but stand out elements included frog leg lolipops which came with her main course of baked seabass with garlic puree . 30 zoe williams reviewed the restaurant for the daily telegraph in 2010 after burbidge became head chef . she found issues with some of the dishes such as a mackerel which wasn t properly filleted and some overcooked samphire . 7 however she thought that the dessert was perfect stating that it was enough to make you wonder why anybody ever makes custard without fennel . 7 fay maschler visited the new establishment in april 2010 for the evening standard who disagreed with the idea that it was a reopening and said that it instead should be considered to be a new ramsay restaurant . she was impressed by the majority of the food especially the desserts however felt that the service was a little alien . marina o loughlin for the metro in june 2010 thought that the food was fine and although the restaurant seems to have been entirely designed with gathering michelin stars it seemed that everything on the menu had been done somewhere else but better . 31 time out s review of the restaurant rated it at four out of five stars being impressed with the quality of the food and describing the wine selection as crammed with class . 32 ratings and awards edit the restaurant won its first michelin star under wareing in 2000 33 and was awarded a second star in 2007 . 34 it became only the fifth london based restaurant to hold stars at that level . 35 following the split with wareing the restaurant at the new location gained a new single michelin star in the 2011 list . 36 whilst under wareing s lead the restaurant was rated the best overall restaurant in london by restaurant guide harden s in 2008 but was beaten by restaurant gordon ramsay in the best food and service rankings in the 80 bracket . however in 2009 it was ranked once more the best overall in london and in those categories as well . 37 it holds five aa rosettes . 38 however in 2002 editor simon wright resigned as he believed that the managing director of the automobile association intervened to prevent p trus from receiving a fifth rosette at the recommendation of the aa s inspectors . ramsay reacted by threatening to take legal action in order to ensure that none of his restaurants were featured in the 2003 edition of the aa s restaurant guide . 39 this was followed by the resignation of inspector sarah peart