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The world’s meanest chef is opening a Miami restaurant. Is idiot sandwich on the menu?

The Hell’s Kitchen restaurant in Lake Tahoe
The Hell’s Kitchen restaurant in Lake Tahoe Handout

Gordon Ramsay appears to delight in torching contestants on his television show “Hell’s Kitchen.”

Now Miami diners will get to return the favor.

Ramsay will open an outpost of his Hell’s Kitchen restaurant in downtown Miami in late 2022, according to a company statement. It’ll be the third Hell’s Kitchen restaurant, following locations in Las Vegas and Lake Tahoe. Two other spots, in Chicago and Washington, D.C., are forthcoming.

Now you get to do the yelling, Miami — on Yelp! Miami Herald archives
Now you get to do the yelling, Miami — on Yelp! Miami Herald archives

The restaurant capitalizes on its FOX network fame, with the red-and-blue design mirroring the television set. One side of the restaurant is painted in fiery murals, the other in cool blues, and in between them is an open kitchen to resemble the show’s.

Ultimately it’s a theme restaurant — call it a Rainforest Café with implied cursing.

Chef Gordon Ramsay is opening a Hell’s Kitchen-themed Miami restaurant in late 2022.
Chef Gordon Ramsay is opening a Hell’s Kitchen-themed Miami restaurant in late 2022. Artist's rendering Handout

The sprawling 16,000-square-foot restaurant will cover two floors at Met Square in the upcoming Metropolitan Miami Development, just north of the river from Brickell.

The menu, like the show, appears audience-tested. Oysters and shrimp cocktails for starters, foie gras, meatballs and seared scallops as appetizers, Beef Wellington, chicken scallopini and several cuts of steak for entrees. Fixed-price options between $75-$85 a person appear on each of the other restaurant locations’ menus.

There is a Hell’s Kitchen Burger on the menu but no idiot sandwich.

Hell’s Kitchen Miami

Opening: Late 2022

Carlos Frías
Miami Herald
Miami Herald food editor Carlos Frías is a two-time James Beard Award winner, including the 2022 Jonathan Gold Local Voice Award for engaging the community with his food writing. A Miami native, he’s also the author of the memoir “Take Me With You: A Secret Search for Family in a Forbidden Cuba.”
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