Mark Sargeant, Gordon Ramsay's right hand man and former head chef at his Michelin-starred restaurant at Claridge's, has resigned from the celebrity chef's restaurant group.
Sargeant, who has worked alongside Ramsay for 13 years, will leave Gordon Ramsay Holdings (GRH) at the end this month to join pub group the Swan Collection as creative director.
His resignation follows months of speculation after his departure from Claridge's earlier in the year and a rumoured fall out with Ramsay.
It also comes just months after GRH head of operations, Gillian Thomson, left the group to join contract caterer Company of Cooks. And let's not forget the high profile fall out with Marcus Wareing.
Sargeant first joined Ramsay at Aubergine in the 1990s. He went on to work as sous chef at Gordon Ramsay's flagship restaurant on Chelsea's Royal Hospital Road before becoming head chef at Gordon Ramsay at Claridge's, where he won a Michelin-star in 2002.
He will join the Swan Collection next month. The company currently runs the Swan at the Globe Theatre, London, and the Swan, West Malling, Kent.
It seems Ramsay's original stable of faithful protégés is getting smaller and smaller, with only Mark Askew, Jason Atherton and Angela Hartnett left. Let's hope for Ramsay's sake there won't be any more high profile departures...
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