Monday, March 3, 2008

The Michelin red guide delivers its stars
The 2008 edition of the Michelin Guide France, the most feared of restaurant guides, has not lived up to their reputation by removing his third star in a Parisian institution, the Grand Véfour, while Marseille in his first three stars through Gérald Passédat , head of Petit Nice.

The guide, released March 6, in conjunction with the Paris guide, which addresses 8,655 restaurants 3569
The guide, released March 6, in conjunction with the Paris guide, which addresses 8,655 restaurants 3569
After Taillevent in 2007 and the Tour d'Argent (she grew from two to one star) in 2006, the guide has downgraded this year's Grand Véfour, the Mecca of gastronomy for more than two hundred years in the Palais Royal gardens . Guy Martin, who had succeeded in 1991 in french chef Raymond Oliver (three stars from 1953 to 1983) shortly after the death of the latter, had managed to retrieve the 3rd badge in 2000.

Like last year, the red guide reward a dynasty of chiefs. After the family of Anne-Sophie Pic in Valence (Drôme), here's family Gérald Passédat whose history began in 1916 with his grandfather who buys a bar on the Corniche before acquiring the villa of a countess it transforms into a hotel and restaurant. The head of 47 years, author of a Mediterranean cuisine dedicated primarily for fish and shellfish, told the Agence France Presse (AFP) that he would use the third star "as a creative springboard."

Eight institutions have access to two stars whose Atelier de Joel Robuchon (Paris 7th). In 2007, the famous chef was awarded two stars in Monaco. It totals 18 stars around the world to 14 to Alain Ducasse, whose Relais du Parc (Paris 16th), which reopened in early February after work be withdrawn star.

Michelin also gives a boost to young chefs, just about everywhere in France at the Hostellerie de Plaisance in Saint-Emilion (Gironde, Philippe Etchebest), the Ninth Art in Saint-Just-Saint-Rambert (Loire, Christophe Roure ), L'Amphitryon in Toulouse / Colomiers (Haute-Garonne, Yannick Delpech), or La Bouitte in Saint-Martin de Belleville (Savoie) and the Pyrenees in Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) where sons joined fathers in the kitchen. Even wind youth among the 52 new star. In Strasbourg, Eric Westermann to Buerehiesel restores a star at the restaurant his father, three stars until last year, Antoine Westermann had decided to step down to come perform in Paris at Drouant particular.

Still others reflect the recognition of a new generation of leaders as a Fabrice Biasolo Auberge en Gascogne to Astaffort (Lot-et-Garonne), Alexandre Gauthier at the Auberge de la Grenouillère in La Madelaine-sous-Montreuil (Pas de Calais) or Fabien Lefèbvre the Octopus in Béziers (Hérault). The "old" generation is still there including Jean-Marie Amat in Lormont, near Bordeaux, which found a star or William Ledeuil of Ze Kitchen Gallery (Paris 6th), long ignored the guide.

The best sommelier in the world, the Italian Enrico Bernardo, beaming a star for his Parisian restaurant Il Vino (7th). The Finns based in Nice, Journi Tourmanen, "the workshop of taste" gets its first star (his restaurant is now called La Reserve) or the Japanese Aida small restaurant in Paris.

The guide, released March 6, in conjunction with the Paris guide, in 8655 which addresses 3,569 restaurants. 529 are starred (26 three-star, 68 two-star and a star 435), also with 510 Bib Gourmands (good value), almost as much as star.

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