No holder of the prestigious award had been demoted during the previous two editions of the Michelin Guide.
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The Michelin guide has downgraded the tables of Guy Savoy, one of the most famous leaders in the world, and Rochelais Christopher Coutanceau, on Monday, February 27 to the France-Presse (AFP), by three Guide, which will reveal in a week its 2023 list.
“These are exceptional restaurants, so you can imagine that these are decisions that are carefully thought out, supported by many visits to our inspectors throughout the year,” told AFP Gwendal Poullennec, the pattern of the guide. No chief holder of three stars, higher distinction in the world of gastronomy, had been downgraded during the 2021 and 2022 vintages, unlike the years 2019 and 2020.
Elected best chef in the world for the sixth time in a row in November, Guy Savoy had been a holder of three stars since 2002. Christopher Coutanceau had obtained his third macaron just before the first confinement. Aware of the impact of such an emotional and economic announcement, twenty years after the suicide of chef Bernard Loiseau, the boss of the Michelin met Christopher Coutanceau on Monday and spoke on the phone with Guy Savoy.
Marc Veyrat downed in 2019 2>
In total, five downshifts were unveiled by the guide: the table de l’Alpaga, in Megève, Jean-Luc Tartarin, in Le Havre, and the restaurant Michel Sarran, in Toulouse, which lose their second star.
If the pattern of the guide has never ceased to recall in recent years that “the stars are won every year”, remains that the two previous editions, tinged by the COVVI-19 crisis with the closure of restaurants , had not demoted any three stars, unlike the years 2019 and 2020, during which chief Marc Veyrat and a Bocuse restaurant had been downgraded, creating the stir within the profession. The 2023 vintage will be unveiled Monday March 6 in Strasbourg.