Marcus Wareing and Gordon Ramsay
Marcus Wareing (left) worked in the kitchen for Gordon Ramsay's Aubergine when the plot was devised - Rex Features

It is the restaurant world's answer to a Hollywood heist film – Gordon Ramsay carrying out an audacious theft, with Marcus Wareing as his getaway driver.

Unbelievably, it really happened. The chefs have revealed the full extent of their involvement in a raid that rocked the world of Michelin-starred restaurants nearly 30 years ago as part of a feud between Ramsay and his mentor, Marco Pierre White.