Guy Savoy was crowned "Best Chef in the World"
The Michelin Guide has taken a star away from French chef Guy Savoy's Paris restaurant. For the first time, the names of chefs who were to lose stars were revealed in this year's edition.
5 Things About Chef Guy Savoy
- Guy Savoy's Monnaie de Paris restaurant has had three stars since 2002. The restaurant overlooks the Seine and has a sister version in Caesars Palace, Las Vegas.
- Gwendal Poullennec, international director of the Michelin Guide, told Times 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”.
- Guy Savoy was crowned "Best Chef in the World" for the sixth consecutive year in November 2022 by the La Liste.
- He opened his first restaurant in 1980 and has trained many of the biggest names in global gastronomy, including Gordon Ramsay, who calls Savoy his “culinary mentor,” reported Standard.co.uk.
- In 2007, Guy Savoy voiced the character of sous-chef Horst in the French version of Ratatouille.
