Hôtel Le Bristol Paris is delighted to announce that a third Michelin star has been awarded to Head Chef Eric Frechon; the latest accolade in a lifetime of gourmet achievements.
Eric’s culinary career started at just seventeen years of age when he joined Jean Sabine’s team at ‘La Grande Cascade’ in Paris from his town of Treport in Normandy. He then trained alongside the most noteworthy chefs in Paris, including Emile Tabourdiau at Hôtel Le Bristol - his future base - and Claude Deligne’s team at ‘Taillevent’, where he was promoted from apprentice to Chef de Partie.
After two years spent honing his culinary skills at ‘Taillevent’, he embarked on a new adventure in Spain to assist Chef Patrick Bausier (whom he had met at Hôtel Le Bristol) at ‘Le Byblos Andaluz’ in Malaga. After returning to Paris two years later, he worked at the celebrated Parisian establishments ‘La Tour d’Argent’ and ‘L’Hôtel Crillon’ where he was based for seven years and appointed Head Chef.
In 1996, he opened his own restaurant, ‘La Verrière’, in the 19th district of Paris to much critical acclaim and returned to Hôtel Le Bristol as Head Chef in 1999. He won a second Michelin star for the hotel in 2001.
In 2008 Eric was awarded both the ‘3-Star Espoir’ a preliminary honor to the coveted three Michelin star, and the Legion d’Honneur which firmly cemented his status as a national treasure. Eric sites his rural upbringing in Normandy and his family as the major influences behind his passion for food and the love of natural produce, commenting: ‘my grandfather cultivated vegetables, my father sold them [vegetables]…and I cook them’. He likens his style and creative process to that of a designer creating Haute Couture.
Eric is delighted and immensely proud to share this achievement with his team of 80 at Hôtel Le Bristol, an icon of art and refined taste in the French capital, and where he flourished to obtain a third Michelin star for the restaurant.
Hôtel Le Bristol is one of Paris’ most legendary ‘Palace’ hotels. Changing seasonally, the Winter Restaurant offers guests the warmth of oak woodwork and the Summer Restaurant opens onto magnolia and Wisteria off the courtyard garden. Le Bristol’s ‘3 stars’ Chef Eric Frechon revisits the basics of French Cuisine with style. The hotel is also home to an Anne Sémonin Beauty Salon and a rooftop pool with spectacular views over Paris. Hôtel le Bristol is set to unveil in 2009, an additional 21 rooms and five suites as well as a grill restaurant.
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