French Michelin Guide 2016: New stars for Alain Ducasse and Gordon Ramsay

The new stars were revealed this morning (Monday) via Twitter on the @GuideMichelinFR account, and in person at a press conference by Michelin executive committee member Claire Dorland Clauzel, which began with a minute's silence to honour the recent death of French-born chef Benoît Violier aged 44, of Swiss restaurant L’Hotel de Ville at Crissier.Â

 

As well as the two new three-stars, there were also 10 new two-stars, including La Grande Maison â€" Joël Robuchon in Bordeaux, Paloma by Nicolas Decherchi in Mougins, and Histoires by Mathieu Pacaud in Paris.

 

The guide also revealed 42 new one-stars, featuring restaurants from across the country. Alongside Le Pressoir d'Argent - Gordon Ramsay in Bordeaux, the new one-star list included Hexagone, Saturne, Neige d’Été and La Table du 11 in Paris; Le Château de Sable in Britanny; La Table des Merville in Castanet-Tolosan; Le Favre d’Anne in Angers; and La Renaissance in Argentan, Normandy. There was also a new star for I Salti, in Belgodère in Corsica.

 

This is not the first French star for Ramsay: he also has one for his Gordon Ramsay au Trianon site.

 

Commenting on the new list, the Michelin website called the French guide “immutable” and said that it sought to “show the attachment of the guide to all those who, through their food, make the daily gastronomic scene so vibrant”.

 

It also noted that five new sites in Paris had reached the two-star level, stating: “[Two stars] is proof of the power of the attraction of the capital, which holds its own in the gastronomic battle for which the biggest metropolitan centres of the planet are fighting.”

 

The announcement concluded: “Lastly, this work is merely a reflection of a France where, come hell or high water, we cook as we breathe â€" passionately, viscerally…and where the [dining] table is an incomparable site of exchange.”Â

 

FULL LIST OF NEW MICHELIN STARS, MICHELIN GUIDE FRANCE 2016

 

Three stars

 

Alain Ducasse au Plaza Athénée, 8th arrondissement, Paris

 

Le Cinq (Christian Le Squer), 8th arrondissement, Paris

 

Two stars

 

La Grande Maison â€" Joël Robuchon, Bordeaux

 

JY’S (Jean-Yves Schillinger), Colmar

 

1920 (Julien Gatillon), Megève

 

Paloma (Nicolas Decherchi), Mougins

 

Sylvestre (Sylvestre Wahid), 7th arrondissement, Paris

 

Le Gabriel (Jérôme Banctel), 8th arrondissement, Paris

 

Le Grand Restaurant â€" Jean-François Piège, 8th arrondissement, Paris

 

L’Abeille (Christophe Moret), 16th arrondissement, Paris

 

Histoires (Mathieu Pacaud), 16th arrondissement, Paris

 

Villa René Lalique (Jean-Georges Klein), Wingen-sur-Moder

 

One star

 

ALSACE, CHAMPAGNE-ARDENNE, LORRAINE

 

L’Arnsbourg, Baerenthal

 

Au Crocodile, Strasbourg

 

AQUITAINE, LIMOUSIN, POITOU-CHARENTES

 

Dyades, Massignac

 

Les Belles Perdrix à Troplong-Mondot, St-Émilion

 

Le Pressoir d'Argent - Gordon Ramsay, Bordeaux

 

AUVERGNE, RHÃ"NE-ALPES

 

L’Esquisse, Annecy

 

1217 (Château de Bagnols), BagnolsÂ

 

Le Passe-Temps, LyonÂ

 

PRaiRiaL, LyonÂ

 

Le Refuge des Gourmets, Machilly

 

Le Clocher des Pères, St-Martin-sur-la-Chambre

 

Raphaël Vionnet, Thonon-les-Bains

 

Le P’tit Polype (au Chalet Mounier), Venosc - Les Deux-Alpes

 

BOURGOGNE, FRANCHE-COMTÉ

 

Le Carmin, Beaune

 

La Maison des Cariatides, Dijon

 

BRETAGNE

 

Les Trois Rochers, Sainte-Marine/Bénodet

 

La Gouesnière (Maison Tirel Guérin), La Gouesnière

 

Le Château de Sable, Porspoder

 

Allium, Quimper

 

Rackham, Roscoff

 

CORSE

 

I Salti, Belgodère

 

LANGUEDOC-ROUSSILLON, MIDI-PYRÉNÉES

 

Jérôme Nutile (Le Mas de Boudan), Nîmes

 

PY-R, Toulouse

 

La Table des Merville, Toulouse/Castanet-Tolosan

 

ÎLE-DE-FRANCE

 

Saturne, 2nd arrondissement, Paris

 

Nakatani, 7th arrondissement, Paris

 

Lucas Carton, 8th arrondissement, Paris

 

Neige d’Été, 15th arrondissement, Paris

 

Hexagone, 16th arrondissement, Paris

 

Pages Paris, 16th arrondissement, Paris

 

La Table du 11, Versailles

 

NORD-PAS-DE-CALAIS, PICARDIE

 

La Table (Hôtel Clarance), Lille

 

La Grignotière, Raismes/Valenciennes

 

NORMANDIE

 

La Renaissance, Argentan

 

Initial, Caen

 

Manoir de Rétival, Caudebec-en-Caux

 

PAYS-DE-LA-LOIRE

 

Le Favre d’Anne, Angers

 

PROVENCE-ALPES-CÃ"TE-D’AZUR

 

La Passagère, Juan-les-Pins

 

Jan, Nice

 

Pèir, Gordes

 

Faventia, Tourrettes

 

Le Cloître, Forcalquier/Mane

 

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