Daniel Boulud is a happy chef. Le Lyonnais, who has been living in New York for nearly 30 years, was named the best restaurateur in the world on Monday for his restaurant Daniel, announced the association Les Grandes Tables du Monde.
Arrived in New York in 1982, the Lyonnais “for many North Americans embodies French gastronomy, even gastronomy at all,” notes the Association created in 1954, which today brings together 184 establishments in 25 countries on five continents. He defines his cuisine as French in its cooking and textures, but with American products and flavors. Besides Daniel (two Michelin stars), the chef has other restaurants in the United States, Canada, Dubai, Singapore and the Bahamas.
The sommelier of Maison Bras in the spotlight
Argentinian Sergio Calderon, who works with Michel and Sebastien Bras at Maison Bras in Laguiole en Aubrac (Massif Central), was voted best sommelier in the world. It was he who selected the wines for the new restaurant des Bras in the Bourse de Commerce-Collection Pinault in Paris. Many bottles are single-varietals, “wines at affordable prices and easy to interpret,” he explained in May when the restaurant was inaugurated.
“Label drinkers are confused. Here, they are ours and well-known producers are hiding behind ”. Self-taught, arrived at Maison Bras in 1990, he was rewarded for “his very free approach to wine, without preconceived ideas, without prejudices”.
The cannolo revisited
The prize for the best pastry chef goes to the Italian native of Sicily, Giuseppe Amato, from the restaurant La Pergola in Rome (3 Michelin stars). It highlights citrus fruits and offers a starry version of the famous Sicilian cannolo and also indulges in more daring experiments by associating raspberry and Java pepper. Finally, the prize for the best room manager goes to Jenny Yun of the Manresa restaurant in Los Gatos, California.
The Grandes tables du monde reward “a unique gastronomic and sensory experience” through the promotion of contemporary haute cuisine “as demanding as it is uninhibited”.
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