Alain Ducasse

Alain Ducasse

Infobox Chef


name = Alain Ducasse
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birthdate = birth date and age|1956|9|13|mf=y
birthplace = Castel-Sarrazin, France
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ratings = Michelin stars Rating|3|3
restaurants = Louis XV, Monaco
eponymous restaurant at the Plaza Athénée in Paris
Jules Verne Restaurant located in the Eiffel Tower
prevrests = Alain Ducasse, New York City
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website = http://www.alain-ducasse.com/

Alain Ducasse (b. September 13 1956 on a farm in Castel-Sarrazin in southwestern France) is a famous Monégasque chef. He formerly held French nationality. In addition to his "Louis XV" restaurant in Monaco, he also operates an eponymous restaurant at the Plaza Athénée in Paris. Until the closure of his New York restaurant at the Essex House hotel, he held three stars (the top ranking) in the Michelin Guide in three different countries simultaneously. In January 2007 he took the position as chef of the Jules Verne Restaurant located in the Eiffel Tower in Paris. [cite web|url = http://www.bonjourparis.com/Articles/Destination_Paris/The_Eiffel_Tower__Breaking_News/ |title = The Eiffel Tower Breaking News |accessdate = 2008-08-13 | work=Bonjour Paris|author = Fawcett, KarenFailed verification|date=August 2008] [ [http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/teiffel/uk/pratique/resto/page/jules_verne.html Jules Verne Restaurant] , Paris.]

History

In 1972, when he was sixteen, Ducasse began an apprenticeship at the Pavillon Landais restaurant in Soustons and at the Bordeaux hotel school. After this apprenticeship, he began work at Michel Guérard’s restaurant in Eugénie-les-Bains while also working for Gaston Lenôtre during the summer months. In 1977, Ducasse started working as an assistant at Moulin de Mougins under legendary chef Roger Vergé, creator of Cuisine du Soleil, and learned the Provençal cooking methods for which he was later known.

Ducasse's first position as chef came in 1980 when he took over the kitchens at L’Amandier in Eugène Mougin. One year later, he assumed the position of head chef at La Terrasse in the Hôtel Juana in Juan-les-Pins. In 1984, he was awarded two stars in the Michelin Red Guide. In that same year, Ducasse was the only survivor of a Learjet crash that nearly took his life.

Recently he obtained citizenship from Monaco. [cite news
url=http://www.liberation.fr/actualite/instantanes/hommedujour/334127.FR.php
title=Alain Ducasse, naturalisé monégasque, perd la nationalité française
work=Libération
accessdate=2008-08-13
date=2008-06-23
language=French
first=Dominique
last=Poiret
]

Career as chef

In 1987, Ducasse was offered the Chef des Cuisines position at the Hôtel de Paris in Monte Carlo, with management including the hotel's high end Le Louis XV restaurant. After three years, Louis XV was awarded three stars in the Red Guide. After assuring himself that the Hotel's other restaurant operations were operating well, Ducasse gave up management of all but the Le Louis XV restaurant.

In 1995, Ducasse expanded beyond the restaurant industry and opened La Bastide de Moustiers, a twelve-bedroom country inn in Provence and he began attaining financial interests in other Provence hotels. On August 12, 1996, the Alain Ducasse restaurant opened in Le Parc – Sofitel Demeure Hôtels in the XVIe arrondissement (16th district) of Paris, France. The Red Guide awarded the restaurant three stars just eight months after opening.

Ducasse came to the United States and in June 2000 opened the Alain Ducasse restaurant in New York City's Jumeirah Essex House hotel at 160 Central Park South, receiving the Red Guide's three stars in December 2001. That restaurant closed in 2007. In early 2008, Ducasse opened Adour, at the St. Regis Hotel on 2 East 55th Street, and has plans to open Bistro Benoit New York, at 60 West 55th Street. [cite news|url = http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/dining/05inte.html |title = Here Come the Chefs |work= New York Times |accessdate = 2008-08-13 |date = 2007-09-05 |author = Fabricant, Florence]

Recognition

Ducasse became the first chef to own restaurants carrying three Michelin Stars in three cities: Le Louis XV in Monte Carlo, the Plaza Athénée in Paris, and Alain Ducasse at Essex House in New York. The New York restaurant was dropped from the 2007 Michelin Guide because the restaurant was scheduled to close.

Plaza Athénée in Paris earned a score of 19/20 points in the Gault Millau guide and ranked 18th in the Guide's European Restaurant Ranking. Before closing, the New York restaurant attained the New York Times four-star review and the Mobil Guide's five-star award.

Other restaurants and operations

The Alain Ducasse Group of restaurants, inns, cooking schools, cookbooks, and consulting activities had revenues of $15.9 million in 2002 and employs approximately 1400 people (in 2006). [cite news
url=http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072512431/student_view0/chapter22/business_week_article.html
accessdate=2008-08-13
title=Cooking Up a Global Empire, Alain Ducasse finds a way to make haute cuisine profitable
work=Business Week
date=2003-05-19
first=Christina
last=Passariello
] Since that time, Ducasse has been expanding his reach. Alain Ducasse has also opened a cooking school for the general public in Paris and another for chefs (ADF), which also works for the European Space Agency to develop astronaut meals to be taken into space. [ [http://www.olivierpascaud.com/ducasse/ Ducasse's delicacies for the international space station] ] Ducasse has also authored numerous books, with the most famous being Alain Ducasse Culinary Encyclopedia.

In 2005, Ducasse opened his first Asian restaurant in Tokyo, Japan. Other Ducasse restaurants include:
* 59 Poincaré (Paris, France)
* Adour (New York, USA)
* Adour (St. Regis, Washington D.C., USA)
* [http://www.thedorchester.com/restaurants_bars/AlainDucasse.html Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester] (London)
* [http://www.auxlyonnais.com/ Aux Lyonnais] (Paris, France)
* Bar & Boeuf (Monaco)
* Be (BoulangEpicerie)
* Beige (Tokyo, Japan)
* [http://www.benoit-paris.com/ Benoit] (Paris, France) - bistro
* Benoit (Tokyo, Japan) - bistro
* [http://www.benoitny.com/ Benoit] (New York, USA) - bistro
* [http://www.esprit-bistrot.com/ Esprit] - bistro
* La Cour Jardin (Paris, France)
* Mix in Las Vegas (Las Vegas, USA)
* La Terrasse du Parc
* [http://www.rech.fr/ Le Rech]
* Le Relais du Parc (Paris, France)
* Le Relais Palza (Paris, France)
* Tamaris (Beirut, Lebanon)
* Spoon (Paris, Saint-Tropez, Beirut, Carthago, Gstaadt, Mauritius, Hong-Kong)
* Trattoria Toscana (Castiglione della Pescaia, Italy)

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