MONTREAL – Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay is suing the barbecue chicken restaurant that he briefly lent his name to on Laurier Ave. for $2.5 million.
He is claiming $2m for broken contract, $500k for the “defamatory statements” from Laurier BBQ partners to the media.
Ramsay has filed suit in Quebec Superior Court against a numbered Quebec company and Montreal businessman Danny Lavy, who now operate the revamped local institution Laurier BBQ without Ramsay since a falling out in February.
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The London-based chef, known for his foul-mouthed television antics as much as his Michelin starred cuisine, is seeking moral and punitive damages after his business relationship with Lavy went sour.
The two had a short-lived agreement to revamp the family-oriented rotisserie on Laurier Ave. with Ramsay’s input and name attached. It opened last August, but the arrangemend was severed in February, resulting in “the defendant’s repudiatory breach of contract,” according to the statement of claim.
The allegations have not been proven in court.
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