Gordon Ramsay shares heartbreaking memory of final meeting with dad

In 1997, Gordon Ramsay’s dad, Gordon James Sr., died of a heart attack, just a year before he opened his first solo restaurant.

And in his new Netflix documentary, Being Gordon Ramsay, the chef talks about not quite being able to shake off the thought that he never did and never will get to see his dad sat at one of his tables.

Ramsay didn’t have a great relationship with his dad, who would often refer to him as a ‘snob’ for his foodie takes, and it seems from watching the fly-on-the-wall series that the 59-year-old still somewhat longs for his validation.

Watch the trailer here and be warned, it contains some classic Gordon Ramsay strong language:

Speaking to LADbible ahead of the doc's release, Ramsay opened up about his dad, and his death, recalling their final moments together and the meal he wishes he'd had the chance to serve him up.

“He was a Scot through and through, I think it would have to be a dish with black pudding,” the Hell’s Kitchen star tells us. “He was obsessed with it.”

And chatting about the breakfast staple leads to Ramsay opening up more about the ‘last breakfast’ he had with his father at a ‘tiny little sh**hole’ in Margate.

They were sat in a ‘little greasy spoon’ having a full English when he remembers chatting about how they’d have their eggs, Ramsay would opt for scrambled.

“He says, ‘You’ve gone all posh’,” the dad-of-four recalls. “'No, I just don’t want a fried egg – look at this place'. Then my scrambled eggs came with a full English and then his came, and there was fried bread.”

Gordon opens up his personal life in the new doc. (Netflix)

But when the chef had peeked through, he could see that in the fryer, the ‘oil was black’.

“I said, ‘Dad, don’t eat that fried bread’,” Ramsay continues. “He said, ‘Well, you used to eat it when I cooked it for you’.

“I said, ‘Yeah, but think about your heart, it’s not good’.”

But again, his dad hit him with the ‘you’ve gone all posh again’. So Ramsay is certain now that if he were to have the chance to cook up a dish, it would be a ‘cracking full English breakfast’ except with ‘no f**king fried bread’ and scrambled eggs.

“Sadly, that was the last time we saw each other,” Ramsay adds. “It’s weird because… I don’t tell many people but sometimes I go back to Margate and I just sort of sit, not far from the harbour and I look at that little – it’s changed hands now, but I know the room.

“I know the site and I just think, ‘yeah, if only’. But that didn’t happen sadly.”

The new doc follows the chef as he takes on his biggest venture yet; opening five culinary experiences in London’s second tallest building, 22 Bishopsgate.

BEING GORDON RAMSAY is on Netflix 18 February.