For other people named Michel Roux, see Michel Roux (disambiguation).
Michel Roux OBE
Michel Roux in 2008
Born
(1941-04-19)19 April 1941
Charolles, France
Died
11 March 2020(2020-03-11) (aged 78)
Bray, Berkshire, England
Culinary career
Rating(s)
Michelin stars (1974–2002)
Previous restaurant(s)
Le Gavroche (formerly )
The Waterside Inn
Award(s) won
Meilleur Ouvrier de France
2008 Lifetime Achievement award by Tatler
2011 Lifetime Achievement award by The Observer Food Monthly
Michel Roux, OBE ([mi.ʃɛlʁu]; 19 April 1941 – 11 March 2020), also known as Michel Roux Snr., was a French chef and restaurateur working in Britain. Along with his brother Albert, he opened Le Gavroche, which subsequently became the first three Michelin starred restaurant in Britain and The Waterside Inn, which was the first restaurant outside France to hold three stars for 25 years.
Roux followed his brother into becoming a pastry chef and again to England in order to open their first restaurant. The pair were described as the "godfathers of modern restaurant cuisine in the UK" and Roux was inducted into several French orders, and received two lifetime achievement awards from different publications. He was decorated during a period of National Service for France during the 1960s.
He founded the Roux Brothers Scholarship along with Albert in 1984, and worked as a consultant for companies such as British Airways and Celebrity Cruises over the years. After he and his brother split the business in 1986, Roux took the Waterside Inn, which he handed over to his son, Alain, in 2002. He remained an active food writer and appeared on television shows such as Saturday Kitchen, MasterChef and the Roux family-centric series The Roux Legacy, and on the Woman's Hour programme on BBC Radio 4.[1]
^"Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 4". BBC. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
MichelRoux, OBE ([mi.ʃɛl ʁu]; 19 April 1941 – 11 March 2020), also known as MichelRoux Snr., was a French chef and restaurateur working in Britain. Along...
Michel Albert Roux (born 23 May 1960) also known as MichelRoux Jr., is an English-French chef. He owned the 2 Michelin-starred restaurant Le Gavroche...
Albert Henri Roux OBE (8 October 1935 – 4 January 2021) was a French restaurateur and chef. He and his brother Michel operated Le Gavroche in London's...
Roux family, and son of MichelRoux. Roux first decided to be a chef at the age of 14, something which his chef father, MichelRoux described as being equally...
It was opened in 1967 by Michel and Albert Roux at 61 Lower Sloane Street, its premises until 1981. Albert's son MichelRoux Jr was the chef patron from...
The Roux Brothers were two French brothers who were restaurateurs and chefs working in Britain: Albert Roux (born Oct 8 1935, died Jan 4 2021) Michel Roux...
sending her CV to top restaurateurs. The first offer she received was from MichelRoux Jr – a beginning position as first commis at his two-Michelin-starred...
to First Dates, Sirieix, along with celebrity chef MichelRoux Jr, co-hosted BBC Two's MichelRoux's Service. In 2012, he appeared on BBC One's The Apprentice...
of the most well known restaurants in the UK including Le Gavroche (MichelRoux Jr), Viajante (Nuno Mendes), St Johns (Fergus Henderson), The Kitchin...
in the past. Wareing has succeeded MichelRoux Jr. on the seventh series of MasterChef: The Professionals after Roux, Jr.'s contract with the BBC was terminated...
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2015). "MichelRoux Jr to front Fresh One Disney format". Broadcast. Retrieved 14 August 2015. Fletcher, Alex (22 October 2014). "MichelRoux Jr is helping...
been praised by fellow chefs, with MichelRoux describing it as "one of the top restaurants in Europe", and MichelRoux Jr. stating that it was his favourite...
at MichelRoux, Jr's selection as host for an episode of Saturday Kitchen. A Guardian investigation published in November 2016, alleged that Roux had...
Year) and 2000 (Chef of the Year). The other two triple-winners are MichelRoux and Jacquie Pern. In September 2006, he was named as the most influential...
Criterion, he was sous chef under the tutelage of another culinary legend, MichelRoux Jr at Le Gavroche for a further three years. In 2001 he had an opportunity...
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