Bernard Loiseau

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Le Relais Bernard Loiseau restaurant in Saulieu
Bernard Loiseau boutique

Bernard Loiseau (born January 13, 1951 in Chamalières , † February 24, 2003 in Saulieu ) was a French chef .

Career

Loiseau was born in Auvergne . His mother, a meat saleswoman, gave him a love of local cuisine. Loiseau received his culinary training from 1968 to 1971 in the famous restaurant La Maison Troisgros of the brothers Jean and Pierre Troisgros in Roanne . From 1972 Loiseau worked for Claude Verger at La Barrière de Clichy and was soon celebrated by Gault-Millau as a child prodigy and as a proponent of nouvelle cuisine .

In 1975, Verger bought the formerly renowned restaurant La Côte d'Or ( German : The Gold Coast ) in Saulieu in Burgundy and made the twenty-four-year-old Loiseau head chef.

In 1982 Loiseau bought the restaurant. In 1991 the Michelin Guide awarded him three stars. His fanatical attention to detail and frenetic work ethic were known.

In 1998, Loiseau founded Bernard Loiseau Aktiengesellschaft. Until his death, he was the only chef whose company was listed on the French stock exchange. The company published numerous books, traded in frozen products and opened three restaurants in Paris in addition to the current La Cote d'Or with an adjoining boutique. At the end of the 1990s there were discussions as to whether the then new “fusion cuisine” could replace the more traditional cuisine such as Loiseau's. Loiseau was heavily in debt and suffered from attacks of severe depression .

Loiseau died of suicide in February 2003 . Shortly before his death, Gault Millau downgraded his restaurant from 19 to 17 points. There were also rumors at Le Figaro that the Michelin Guide was planning to remove a star from La Côte d'Or . The restaurant retained three Michelin stars until early 2016 when it was downgraded to two stars.

Loiseau's life's work is continued to this day as Le Relais Bernard Loiseau under head chef Patrick Bertron (* 1962).

Awards

  • 1994 Knight of the Legion of Honor (Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur (Ch.LH))
  • 1986 Chevalier de l'Ordre national du Mérite
  • 2002 Officier de l'Ordre national du Mérite

literature

Web links

Commons : Bernard Loiseau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cbsnews.com: French Furor Over Chef's Apparent Suicide
  2. ↑ newyorker.com: Death of a Chef
  3. ↑ a b restaurant-ranglisten.de: Le Relais Bernard Loiseau
  4. ↑ legifrance.gouv.fr: Décret du 13 juillet 1994 portant promotion et nomination
  5. ↑ legifrance.gouv.fr: écret du 30 avril 2002 portant promotion et nomination
personal data
SURNAME Loiseau, Bernard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french chef
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Chamalières
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 2003
Place of death Saulieu