By Patrick Hedlund
DNAinfo News Editor
Celebrity chef and restaurateur Gordon Ramsay is in hot water for owing hundreds of thousands of dollars in back taxes on his Manhattan restaurant.
The fiery television personality appeared on the state Department of Taxation and Finance’s list of New York’s top 250 "delinquent taxpayers" for failing to pay $377,887 in taxes on his critically acclaimed Midtown flagship. Ramsay ranked 198th overall on the list.
The debt stems from the recent collapse of Ramsay’s W. 54th Street restaurant at the London Hotel, which he was forced to relinquish last year.
"There is an amount still outstanding to the New York State regarding sales tax,” a spokesman for Gordon Ramsay Holdings told the Daily Record of Scotland reported.
"We are negotiating through our New York advisors to discharge this debt."
The notoriously hot-tempered Ramsay, whose TV show “Kitchen Nightmares” has been a hit in both the U.S. and U.K., ranks as having the third-most Michelin stars of any restaurateur worldwide.
In December of 2009, his eponymous, two-Michelin-starred restaurant at the London was bought by Blackstone, who run the hotel.
Other notable Manhattan businesses to appear on the list include Nello Balan's notable restaurant on the Upper East Side, which owes nearly $250,000 in taxes dating back to 2008; and the luxury yacht charter operator VIP Yacht cruises, Inc., which owes nearly $3.5 million dating back to 2003.
A list of the state's individual delinquent taxpayers can be found here.
