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Sexism claims spur staff walkout at Gordon Ramsay’s London NYC restaurant

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Now this is a real kitchen nightmare.

The cooks at the posh Gordon Ramsay restaurant in The London NYC hotel staged a walkout last weekend — and haven’t been back to work since — after a female chef accused the tough-talking TV chef of turning the eatery into a deep-fried frat house.

The male chefs — who allegedly like to call themselves “Gordon’s Soldiers” — are steamed hotter than a plate of moules mariniere, after commis chef Janet Kim, 31, said sexual harassment was running rampant in the restaurant, which has been forced to stay closed since Saturday.

And though Ramsay no longer owns it or runs it, his influence as a consultant and his popularity with the staff is causing his namesake restaurant to marinate in a toxic broth of brutality, Kim claims. “We’re way past ‘Hell’s Kitchen,’ ” Kim told The Post, referring to Ramsay’s reality-TV cooking show. “It’s more like ‘Dante’s Inferno.’ ”

“It’s outrageous that someone as famous as Gordon Ramsay . . . would allow this to go on,” added Jeffrey Brown, one of Kim’s attorneys at the firm Leeds Morelli & Brown.

In a complaint filed with the state, Kim claimed she was groped, called a “whore” and propositioned for oral sex at the two-Michelin-star eatery. When she finally complained, she was forced to make tiny hors d’oeuvres in what her male colleagues derisively called “the c–t corner,” she said.

The trouble boiled over at the West 54th Street eatery last weekend when Kim reported to work after taking time off for her nerves, and the male chefs held a foodie mutiny.

Kim says her colleagues refused to work with her because of her harassment claims. This led to them being suspended with out pay, she says.

“Every cook in fine dining is suspended for walking out. No one will talk to me,” said Kim. Officials at LXR Luxury Resorts, which owns The London NYC, refused to comment, but a hostess who answered the restaurant phone at The London said they were suffering “labor issues.”

The eatery is not expected to open until Tuesday.

“There’s a lot of disappointment,” said one worker. “Some people stay here [at The London NYC] just for the restaurant. We’re referring guests to Daniel and Le Cirque.”

Amid the turmoil, Kim has filed a complaint with the State Division of Human Rights against the hotel and Ramsay.

She claims that she wasn’t the only female assigned to the

“c–t corner.” Her complaint says executive chef Markus Glocker “repeatedly assigned Asian females” to work there.

A spokesman for Ramsay released this written statement:

“Gordon Ramsay has not been served with any proceedings and these allegations do not relate to him in anyway. The restaurant ‘Gordon Ramsay’ at The London, New York is not owned or operated by Gordon Ramsay or Gordon Ramsay Holdings (GRH) and hasn’t been since November 2009 when all operations were handed back to the hotel. Neither Gordon Ramsay or GRH have any involvement with or responsibility for the operation of the restaurant, including anything to do with human resources which is entirely the responsibility of the owners.”

Additional reporting by Todd Venezia

kieran.crowley@nypost.com