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unusual facts about Michelin star



Enda McEvoy

Enda McEvoy (Virginia, County Cavan, 1977) is an Irish Michelin star winning head chef with restaurant Aniar in Galway.

Glynn Purnell

In 2003 Purnell was appointed to his first Head Chef role at Jessica's in Edgbaston, Birmingham, which was awarded the first Michelin star given to a Birmingham restaurant in 2005, and was also named English "Restaurant of the Year" by the AA the same year.

Great British Chefs

The company is notable for working with a high standard of chefs, most of whom have been awarded a Michelin star.

Guillaume Lebrun

Guillaume Lebrun is a French head chef in the Michelin starred Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud in Dublin, Ireland.

Hans Peter Matthiae

Hans Peter (Hans) Matthiae is a German Michelin star winning head chef and owner of the restaurant Chez Hans in Cashel, County Tipperary, Ireland.

Kei Pilz

Kei Pilz (died 2001) was a Japanese Michelin star winning head chef and co-owner of the restaurant Shiro in Ahakista, County Cork, Republic of Ireland.

Le Cirque

The architectural lighting design was completed by Paul Gregory, principal of Focus Lighting Inc. There is a second flagship restaurant at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas that holds One Michelin Star and a AAA Five-Diamond rating.

Mandarin Oriental, Paris

The hotel has 3 restaurants and bars, and a Cake Shop, all under Michelin star winning Chef Thierry Marx.

Mauro Colagreco

Mauro Colagreco (born 5 October 1976 in La Plata) is an Argentine chef at the two-Michelin star restaurant Mirazur in Menton, France.

Nico Ladenis

Whilst working at his restaurant Chez Nico in Dulwich, London in 1976 or 1977 he met fellow chef Michel Roux at a party, who arranged for him to work for a week at the three Michelin star Moulin de Mougins under Roger Vergé.

Paul Bocuse

One of his students was Austrian Eckart Witzigmann, one of four Chefs of the Century and the first German-speaking and the third non-French-speaking chef to receive three Michelin stars.

Paul Rankin

In 1999 Rankin was the first chef from Northern Ireland to be awarded a Michelin Star.

Richard Corrigan

Corrigan achieved a Michelin Star in 1998 and has been awarded many other culinary accolades, including Outstanding London Chef at the London Restaurant Awards.


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Bobo Bergström

He has worked for the Chef of the Swedish Royal Family as Chef de Cuisine at Michelin Star awarded restaurant Operakallaren in Stockholm.

Jonathan Corbett

After graduating, Corbett went on to work at The Duke of Westminster's, Chester Grovesnor hotel, before taking up a position with Marco Pierre White at the 3 Michelin Star ‘The Restaurant’ in London's Hyde Park Hotel.

Lefteris Lazarou

He is the first Greek chef ever to have received a Michelin Star and is considered one of the most influential in his country, especially due to his expertise on fish & sea food based dishes.

Marcus Eaves

In September 2002, the Landmark Hotel in London offered him a position working with Two Michelin Star chef John Burton Race.

Nick Munier

In 2002, Munier moved to Dublin to join U2's Clarence Hotel, and Ireland's only two Michelin Star restaurant, Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud.

Paul Rankin

In 1989 Paul Rankin changed the face of culinary Northern Ireland when he opened Roscoff, the restaurant that was to become the first to win a Michelin Star in the country.

Rasmus Kofoed

On his return to Copenhagen, he served as head chef at various top restaurants before opening his first restaurant, Geranium (one Michelin Star Awarded in 2012, two in 2013) in Rosenborg Gardens, together with Søren Ledet.