Bruneau (restaurant)

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Bruneau by Maxime Maziers
Bruneau (restaurant)
Restaurant information
EstablishedMarch 1975 (1975-03)
ChefMaxime Maziers
Rating
City Brussels
Country Belgium
Coordinates 50°52′03″N4°19′22″E / 50.867583°N 4.322728°E / 50.867583; 4.322728

Bruneau is a restaurant in Brussels, Belgium which has garnered a Michelin [1] star, as well as an 18/20 rating from Gault-Millau. [2] The chef was Jean-Pierre Bruneau, 74 years old in 2017. The restaurant was taken over [3] by a former sous-chef Maxime Maziers and reopened in June 2018. It was renamed [4] Bruneau by Maxime Maziers. Jean-Pierre Bruneau left his restaurant in Brussels on 22 January 2018. For the last service he prepared the famous Soupe VGE for his customers.

The restaurant opened in March 1975, and was awarded a Michelin star in 1977. [5] It retained the star till 1982, when the restaurant was awarded a second star. In 1988 the rating went up to three Michelin stars. It retained the three stars for sixteen years, until 2004, when it went back to two stars. [6] In 2010 it lost its second star, leaving it with just one star. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]

Daniel Rose is a former Bruneau apprentice. [12]

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References

  1. "Bruneau Michelin Star". November 28, 2017.[ permanent dead link ]
  2. "Restaurant Bruneau Gault-Millau". November 28, 2017. Archived from the original on December 1, 2017. Retrieved November 28, 2017.
  3. "Young Maxime Maziers takes over Brussels institution Bruneau". Food & Wine Gazette. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
  4. "Maxime Maziers : la griffe d'un jeune chef, successeur de Bruneau!". A Table, DH. Retrieved 30 March 2019.
  5. Jacques Mercier (2001). A la table des grands chefs en Belgique (in French). Renaissance Du Livre. pp. 13–. ISBN   978-2-8046-0551-3.
  6. "Jean-Pierre Bruneau: "La cuisine, ce n'est pas de la chimie, c'est du savoir-faire!"" (in French). Retrieved 9 December 2017. En 1975, il ouvre un restaurant à Ganshoren. Il décroche une première étoile en 1977, une deuxième en 1982 et une troisième en 1988. Il perd cette dernière en 2004, ...
  7. 1979 Michelin Benelux. Clermont-Ferrand: Michelin et Cie. 1979. ISBN   2-06-006099-0. p. 87
  8. 1985 Michelin Benelux. Clermont-Ferrand: Michelin et Cie. 1985. ISBN   2-06-006055-9. p. 89
  9. 1993 Michelin Benelux. Clermont-Ferrand: Michelin et Cie. 1993. ISBN   2-06-006039-7. p. 104
  10. 2001 Michelin Benelux. Clermont-Ferrand: Michelin et Cie. 2001. ISBN   2-06-000298-2. p. 157
  11. 2003 Michelin Benelux. Clermont-Ferrand: Michelin et Cie. 2003. ISBN   2-06-100699-X. p. 192
  12. Meg Bortin (November 10, 2008). "In Paris, improv is U.S. chef's specialty". International Herald Tribune.