Master sommelier who worked at Gordon Ramsay’s Mayfair restaurant in court for biting female colleague during rough sex session

AN EXPERT wine waiter who worked in a Gordon Ramsay restaurant bit a colleague five times during “rough sex” at his leaving do, a court heard.

Arnaud Bardary, 32, who worked at Ramsay's restaurant Maze in Mayfair boasted “I banged her hard” after he hooked up with Anais Lopes after a boozy night in the City of Quebec bar in Marble Arch.

She called the cops after the champagne fuelled sex session claiming the Frenchman went too far and telling Westminster Magistrates' Court “it was forceful”.

Prosecutor Edward Aydin said: “She had been kissing him at the bar and once at his address then had consensual sex.

“It lasted for about an hour and during that time, in the early hours of the morning, he began to bite the victim and the sex was quite rough.

“She asked him to stop because it was hurting her, but he continued to bite her.

“He bit her five times.

“This amorous liaison ended up not as an amorous liaison but a rough and tumble, as if the victim there went into a tumble dryer.

“But they continued to have sex, they finished having sex, they finished the champagne and she went home by an Uber taxi and later reported him to the police.”

He added: “It was not romantic, it was rough sex, it was forceful.

“He said in interview that he 'banged her hard'.”

Bardary, who now lives in Olonne-Sur-Mer in western France, pleaded guilty to one count of assault by beating.

Anne McCarthy, defending, said: “He's in a state of shock about the allegations being made.

“Right at the beginning, he said there was never any intention of assault per se.

She added: “At the leaving party, to put it colloquially, [the victim] came on very strong to him.

“She was bearing her breasts at him and using language that she would destroy him.”

Bardary, who has since expressed remorse for the attack at his home, then in Galveston Road, Putney, now plans to continue his career in Australia.

He is one of just 250 people with enough expertise in wine service to qualify as a master sommelier.

Ms McCarthy said: “He was rated as one of the two best youngest sommeliers in the world, then the second-best in the UK in 2015.

“He has not worked after giving in his notice in March 2016, hence the leaving party.

“He is due to start as a beverage manager in Sydney, Australia, on 18 July of this year.

“All his visas, tickets and travel arrangements have been made.”

Chair of the bench David Rogers fined Bardary £250 and ordered him to pay £150 compensation to the victim.

He said: “Normally we would have you undertake a community order, but because of your situation we are going to impose a fine today.

“It is an exceptional case but we did accept that you have pleaded guilty and you have shown remorse and embarrassment.

“We feel that you got carried away and crossed a line that you shouldn't have crossed but that was it.”

Bardary, of Chemin de la Gillerie, Olonne-Sur-Mer, western France, must also pay £85 costs and a £30 victim surcharge within two weeks.

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