Moore Place

What happened after

The Portsmouth Road building was demolished around 2009 and rebuilt; a care home also named Moore Place (run by Anchor) now occupies the site, unrelated to the former restaurant/hotel business.

Closure date on record: 2009

What happened on the show

For all the money around it, the wealthy Esher clientele and the golf course next door, Moore Place was squandering its position. Ramsay found the building painted an unfortunate claret, inside and out, and a dated menu leaning on deep-fried food cooked in ancient, filthy equipment. The owners, Richard Hodgson and Nick Whitehurst, were inexperienced, and much of the brigade seemed indifferent, none more so than head chef Mark Robinson, whose background was in IT and who spent more time on the golf course than at the stove. Ramsay's response was to hurl the deep-fat fryers into a water hazard. Things turned once an experienced sous chef, Andy Trowell, came in; Ramsay handed him a burger recipe that became the new signature and launched it at a busy Mother's Day lunch. Returning later, Ramsay despaired that the claret paintwork was untouched, but was pleased to see Andy promoted to head chef, Mark gone to run a pub, and far more business coming through the door.

After the cameras left

The restaurant is long gone, and so, almost, is the building. The Portsmouth Road property was demolished around 2009 and rebuilt, and a care home, also called Moore Place and run by Anchor, now stands on the site with no connection to the old restaurant and hotel. We hold this at high confidence: Anchor's own listing confirms the care home is operating today, and local reporting supplies the demolition and planning timeline. So the name survives in Esher, attached to something entirely different. The business Ramsay tried to fix did not outlast its own walls.