Eric Menchon

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Le Moissonnier

Eric Menchon (* 1965 in Aix en Provence ) is a French chef . He is Chef de Cuisine at the Le Moissonnier restaurant in Cologne .

Live and act

Menchon, whose French parents lived in Morocco, grew up in Pertuis in the south of France . After attending the hotel management school Lycée Hôtelier de Nice in Nice , he worked at the Le Mazarin restaurant in Aix-en-Provence and at the restaurant des Quatre Saisons in Marseille .

At the age of 23 he moved to Cologne and began to cook in the restaurant Le Moissonnier with patron Vincent Moissonnier in Cologne-Neustadt-Nord , who spent his apprenticeship with Henry Levy . Since 2008, the cuisine of Le Moissonnier under Menchon's management has been awarded two Michelin stars , Gault-Millau 2010 rated it with 18/20 points. The restaurant is known for its haute cuisine of classic French cuisine .

Menchon is married, has two children and lives in Cologne.

Awards

  • 2012: Restaurant of the year from Der Feinschmecker
  • 2019: Chef of the year from Der Feinschmecker

Fonts

  • Eric Menchon: Eric Menchon . (= Library of Cooks Volume 9) Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-86615-559-6 .
  • Eric Menchon, Vincent Moissonnier, Werner Köhler: Le Moissonnier. Star cuisine for your home . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-462-03513-4 .

literature

  • André Gayot, Marianne Benz, Manfred Kohnke: The best of Germany, Gault Millau Guides . Gault Millau, Los Angeles 1995, ISBN 1-881066-15-0 , p. 216.
  • August F. Winkler: 100 best cooks . Neuer Umschau Verlag, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 2008, ISBN 978-3-86528-295-8 , p. 186.
  • Gault Millau Germany 2010 . Christian, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-88472-955-7 , p. 426 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rainer Schäfer: Der Genussarchtitekt , in: essen & Trinken , September 2009, p. 94 ff
  2. ↑ ahgz.de: The patron
  3. ↑ Eric Menchon is Chef of the Year. Retrieved September 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Menchon, Eric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french chef
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Aix en Provence