n a world where food-themed cable television channels are turning chefs into celebrities, few are more recognizable than Gordon Ramsay. Sure, the 41-year-old professional football player turned chef may have earned an incredible nine Michelin stars worldwide, but that’s not what has made his face instantly recognizable to so many adoring fans worldwide. No, as impressive as his track record is, Ramsay is best known for his expletive-filled rants on unsuspecting young chefs on his television series Hell’s Kitchen. No one combines the f-word and a chef’s uniform quite as well, making him a fixture in kitchens and on TV screens around the world.

Last weekend he visited the GTA for a promotional book signing for his latest work, Gordon Ramsay’s Fast Food, in Burlington. 300 Toronto fans filled an Indigo bookstore, anxious to get a look at their favourite chef who was genial, punctual, and startlingly expletive free (he even told several budding chef’s to contact him when they’d graduated, so that he could try to find them work). But the biggest surprise of the event had to be a rather tentative announcement from Ramsay. While there is certainly no final deal in place, the chef stated that he was looking into opening a restaurant in Toronto.

In due time, a lucky group of young Canadian chefs will be getting screamed at by Ramsay

Ramsay has opened a variety of restaurants outside of England in locations such as Tokyo, New York, Ireland, Dubay and Paris, but he has yet to oversee a kitchen in Canada. During his visit to the city, the chef said that he was looking at a few possible locations for a restaurant and was excited by the possibilities. While he does not intend to open an eatery in a hotel (like many of his satellite locations have been in the past), Ramsay has been eying up waterfront locations and is excited by the direction that the city is headed.

While Ramsay is not exactly someone known for keeping quiet about anything he believes in (he did launch into an unexpected anti-obesity rant during the book signing), the chef did keep quiet about the details regarding the upcoming restaurant. He did not name any of the specific locations that he was investigating and said that neither he nor anyone involved with his organization planned to seriously discuss the restaurant until September. For now the very idea of Ramsay eatery opening up in the GTA should be enough to make Toronto foodies foam at the mouth.

while the most respected members of the Toronto food scene anxiously await to taste his legendary cuisine. It’s going to be fucking great.