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Liverpool Echo - 9th February 2007

For Sale: £99,000 for a Ramsay Nightmare
Popular restaurant goes on market
Exclusive By Adrian Butler

A Liverpool restaurant made over by TV chef Gordon Ramsay is up for sale. Morgan’s in Woolton is on the market for £99,000.

It will be a surprise for customers at the Allerton Road restaurant, which had enjoyed good reviews and increased its takings after appearing on Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares.

The fiery chef branded it "shambotic" then tore into the chef and revamped the menu in a notorious episode.

But owner Sandra Morgan today said business was still good, but she was exhausted after three years in the catering industry and wanted to put her feet up.

She has advertised the restaurant on website www.businssesforsale.com.

Meanwhile daughter Laura Kelly, who also runs the restaurant, wants to go to drama school.

Sandra said: "We are testing the market. I’m in a rush to sell. At the moment we’re frantic and I’m working so hard. My partner had got a place in Spain and I just need a holiday."

The restaurant is in an 18th-century converted barn in one of Mersey-side’s most desirable areas.

Ramsay told Sandra that with longer operating hours it could make £10,000 a week, although the restaurant’s current profits are not given on the site. A freehold, where the buyer would get the business and the property, is on sale for £465,000.

The restaurant’s phone lines were jammed after it was on the show in December and the show was a hit. Producers are believed to have been in talks about coming back.

After the show, the chef left and sous-chef Emma, who had impressed Ramsay, was promoted. Now the restaurant’s future is uncertain.

Morgan’s moments
2003: Sandra Morgan converts the antique’s shop she has owned since 1989 into a restaurant. But in October a review complains of one dish arriving "cremated" and another having no taste.

September 2006: ECHO reveals Gordon Ramsay is in Liverpool making the restaurant over for his Kitchen Nightmare’s show.

December 2006: The show airs to huge viewing and business starts booming at the restaurant. But a few weeks later Sandra reveals staff are under police protection over fears they will be targeted. However, the restaurant continues to be trouble free and has record takings over Christmas.

February 2007: Sandra Morgan puts restaurant up for sale.
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