Restaurant Guy Savoy — Monnaie de Paris, which has held three Michelin stars since 2002, has been demoted to two stars in the latest edition of the guide to France, which is published on March 7.
Speaking to The Times, Gwendal Poullennec, international director of the Michelin Guide, explained that restaurants given stars are “exceptional” and decisions to remove them are “carefully considered” and “supported by numerous visits from our inspectors throughout the year”.
He continued: “The reasons are not made public, and communicated only to the chefs involved. For such important decisions, we include not just French inspectors but also some from other countries.”
Monnaie de Paris’s sister restaurant in Las Vegas held two stars in the days when Michelin published a guide to the Nevada city, while Savoy was this year named the world’s best chef for the sixth year running by the French restaurant guide La Liste.
The 69-year-old opened his first restaurant in Paris in 1980 and has trained many of the biggest names in global gastronomy, including Gordon Ramsay, who calls Savoy his “culinary mentor.” Such is Savoy’s fame in France that in 2007 he voiced the character of sous-chef Horst in the French version of Ratatouille.
Christopher Coutanceau, a seafood restaurant in La Rochelle, has also been demoted from three to two stars in the latest edition of the Michelin Guide to France, while around 20 restaurants have been downgraded from two stars to one.
Eight UK restaurants currently hold three stars. The country’s most famous chefs will find out whether they still hold the highest accolade awarded by Michelin when the new Great Britain and Ireland stars are announced at a ceremony at Silverstone racetrack on March 27.
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Michelin guide director Michael Ellis told Bloomberg, "We've had issues with consistency, and consistency is a huge thing for us ... we've had some very erratic meals [there]." He explained that the major two-star downgrade was a difficult decision to make but the Michelin team felt it was the right thing to do.
Guy Patrice Savoy (French: [ɡi savwa]; born 24 July 1953) 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.
69-year-old Savoy has held Michelin's top three-star status since 2002 for his iconic eponymous restaurant, Monnaie de Paris, which overlooks the Seine. He was named as the best chef in the world as recently as November 2022; La Liste, which aggregates thousands of reviews from around the world, gave him that honour.
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Restaurant Guy Savoy Monnaie de Paris ($525 per person)
The restaurant offers several prix fixe options, but the ne plus ultra is an 18-course “Innovations and Inspirations” menu that includes roasted lobster and artichoke soup with black truffle. The cost? €490 (or around $525).
After Ramsay worked at Le Gavroche for a year, Roux invited him to work with him at Hotel Diva, a ski resort in the French Alps, as his number two. From there, a 23-year-old Ramsay moved to Paris to work with Guy Savoy and Joël Robuchon, both Michelin-starred chefs.
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