Paul François Pierre Bocuse was a French chef based in Lyon known for the high quality of his restaurants and his innovative approaches to cuisine. Dubbed "the pope of gastronomy", he was affectionately nicknamed Monsieur Paul. The Bocuse d'Or, a biennial world chef championship, bears his name.
Joël Robuchon was a French chef and restaurateur. He was named "Chef of the Century" by the guide Gault Millau in 1989, and awarded the Meilleur Ouvrier de France in cuisine in 1976. He published several cookbooks, two of which have been translated into English, chaired the committee for the Larousse Gastronomique, and hosted culinary television shows in France. He operated more than a dozen restaurants across Bangkok, Bordeaux, Hong Kong, Las Vegas, London, Macau, Madrid, Monaco, Montreal, Paris, Shanghai, Singapore, Taipei, Tokyo, and New York City. His restaurants have been acclaimed, and in 2016 he held 31 Michelin Guide stars among them, the most any restaurateur has ever held. He is considered to be one of the greatest chefs of all time.
The Michelin Guides are a series of guide books that have been published by the French tyre company Michelin since 1900. The Guide awards up to three Michelin stars for excellence to a select few restaurants in certain geographic areas. The acquisition or loss of a star or stars can have dramatic effects on the success of a restaurant. Michelin also publishes the Green Guides, a series of general guides to cities, regions, and countries.
Alain Passard is a French chef and owner of the three Michelin star restaurant L'Arpège in Paris.
Astrance is a restaurant in Paris, France. The chef is Pascal Barbot. In 2012, S.Pellegrino ranked it #18 among the world's 50 best restaurants. It received three Michelin stars in 2007 and maintained that honor until 2019, when it was demoted to two stars.
Arpège is a 3 Michelin-star French restaurant in Paris. The chef is Alain Passard. It was previously known as L'Archestrate by Alain Senderens. Passard bought the restaurant from Senderens in 1986.
Guy Patrice Savoy is a French chef who is the head chef and owner of the eponymous Guy Savoy restaurant in Paris and its sister restaurant in Las Vegas, both of which have earned multiple Michelin stars. He owns three other restaurants in Paris.
Claude Bosi is a French chef. Claude's first Head Chef position was at Overton Grange in 1999. He opened his first UK restaurant Hibiscus in the market town of Ludlow, Shropshire, in 2000 and was awarded two Michelin Stars in 2004. In 2007, he relocated the restaurant to London, where he went on to reclaim the two Michelin Stars in 2009.
Magnus Nilsson is a Swedish chef who was head chef at the restaurant Fäviken in Sweden until it closed in December 2019. He had previously worked at L'Astrance and L'Arpège in France, before moving onto Fäviken in 2008, which was ranked the 57th best restaurant in the world and won two Michelin stars in 2016.
Frédéric Anton is a French chef, Meilleur Ouvrier de France and three stars at the Guide Michelin since 2007. He was the chef of the restaurant Le Pré Catelan in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. He is now the chef at Le Jules Verne restaurant located in the Eiffel Tower.
Arnaud Donckele is a French chef. He currently runs La Vague d'Or restaurant at Cheval Blanc St-Tropez hotel located in Saint-Tropez and "Plénitude" at Cheval Blanc Paris. His St-Tropez restaurant was awarded 3 Michelin stars in 2013, his Parisian restaurant in 2022.
Antoine Westermann is a French chef born in 1949 in the Alsatian town of Wissembourg, on the northeast border of France.
Claude Le Tohic is a French chef and restaurateur who earned a three Michelin star rating in Las Vegas for his work at Joël Robuchon, in the MGM Grand Hotel. In 2023, Le Tohic led Team USA to win the award of World Champion at the International Catering Cup (ICC) competition. In 2021, Le Tohic received a Michelin Star for his work at O' by Claude Le Tohic, in Union Square, San Francisco. In 2010, he was named Best Chef: Southwest by the James Beard Foundation. In 2004, Le Tohic received the peer-juried Meilleur Ouvrier de France honor. He is the Chef/Partner behind ONE65, a six-story multi-concept culinary destination in San Francisco's Union Square, which includes ONE65 Patisserie & Boutique, ONE65 Bistro & Grill, Elements at ONE65 and O’ by Claude Le Tohic.
Christophe Hardiquest, born on 20 October 1975 in Waremme, is a Belgian Chef.
Stéphanie Le Quellec, born Lecocq is a 2-star chef.
Nicolas Sale is a French chef. He is the chef of the two gastronomic restaurants of the Hôtel Ritz Paris: La Table de l'Espadon and Le Jardin de l'Espadon. He was named "Chef of the Year" in 2017.
Laurent Petit is a French chef, three stars at the Guide Michelin and established in Annecy.
Éric Briffard is a French chef. He is the executive chef and director of the Culinary Arts at the school Le Cordon Bleu since January 2016.
Simone Zanoni is an Italian chef. He is the chef at the George, one of the three restaurants of the Four Seasons Hotel George V, one star at the Michelin guide. He was before a chef at the restaurants of Gordon Ramsay, two and three Michelin stars.
