Humble French restaurant swamped after Michelin mistake makes it a star Read moreMichelin said it was the first time a French chef had asked to be dropped from its restaurant guide in this way, without a major change of positioning or business model. Le Suquet had been consistently described by the Michelin guide’s restaurant judges as so good it was “spellbinding”. Bras said that like all chefs he sometimes found himself thinking of Bernard Loiseau, the acclaimed French chef who killed himself in 2003, an act widely seen as linked to rumours that he would lose his third Michelin star. Bras is one of only 27 French chefs who hold top rankings in the Michelin restaurant guide. In 2008, three-star chef Olivier Roellinger closed his luxury restaurant in the Breton fishing village of Cancale, saying he wanted a quieter life.

Source: The Guardian September 20, 2017 17:09 UTC