Guy Savoy
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Guy Savoy is a world-renowned French chef, and is the Head Chef and owner of the eponymous Guy Savoy restaurant in Paris and sister restaurant in Las Vegas
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The Paris restaurant has garnered the 3 Michelin stars, being elevated in 2002. The restaurant has been ranked multiple times in the Restaurant Magazine Top 50 Restaurants in the world
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The Las Vegas restaurant has garnered the 2 Michelin stars, the AAA Five Diamond Award, the Forbes
Five Star Award, and the Wine Spectator
Grand Award. In addition, the restaurant was recognized as one of the Top 40 Restaurants in the U.S. from 2006 to 2011. The restaurant is managed full time by Franck Savoy, Guy Savoy's son.
Savoy owns four additional, smaller restaurants in Paris and Singapore
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, located in Bourgogne
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In 1955, his parents moved to Bourgoin-Jallieu
, a town in Isère
, where his father was a gardener and his mother owned a taproom, that she would transform into a fast food and then a reputed restaurant. After three years apprenticeship with the Troisgros brothers, he owned his own restaurant in New York before opening in rue Duret, Paris in 1980, which received 2 Michelin stars in 1985. Guy Savoy is the youngest of the group of renowned chefs who invented "Nouvelle Cuisine," taking a lighter and more delicate approach to classic French cooking.
Las Vegas Strip
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The Paris restaurant has garnered the 3 Michelin stars, being elevated in 2002. The restaurant has been ranked multiple times in the Restaurant Magazine Top 50 Restaurants in the world
Restaurant (magazine) Top 50
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The Las Vegas restaurant has garnered the 2 Michelin stars, the AAA Five Diamond Award, the Forbes
Forbes
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Five Star Award, and the Wine Spectator
Wine Spectator
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Grand Award. In addition, the restaurant was recognized as one of the Top 40 Restaurants in the U.S. from 2006 to 2011. The restaurant is managed full time by Franck Savoy, Guy Savoy's son.
Savoy owns four additional, smaller restaurants in Paris and Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
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Biography
Guy Savoy was born on 24 July 1953 in NeversNevers
Nevers is a commune in – and the administrative capital of – the Nièvre department in the Bourgogne region in central France...
, located in Bourgogne
Bourgogne
Burgundy is one of the 27 regions of France.The name comes from the Burgundians, an ancient Germanic people who settled in the area in early Middle-age. The region of Burgundy is both larger than the old Duchy of Burgundy and smaller than the area ruled by the Dukes of Burgundy, from the modern...
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In 1955, his parents moved to Bourgoin-Jallieu
Bourgoin-Jallieu
Bourgoin-Jallieu is a commune in the Isère department of south-eastern France.It lies 35 kilometres to the east-southeast of the city of Lyon. Its inhabitants are called Berjalliens.-Geography:...
, a town in Isère
Isère
Isère is a department in the Rhône-Alpes region in the east of France named after the river Isère.- History :Isère is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was created from part of the former province of Dauphiné...
, where his father was a gardener and his mother owned a taproom, that she would transform into a fast food and then a reputed restaurant. After three years apprenticeship with the Troisgros brothers, he owned his own restaurant in New York before opening in rue Duret, Paris in 1980, which received 2 Michelin stars in 1985. Guy Savoy is the youngest of the group of renowned chefs who invented "Nouvelle Cuisine," taking a lighter and more delicate approach to classic French cooking.
Flagship restaurants
- Restaurant Guy Savoy – 18 rue Troyon – 17th arrondissement of Paris
- Restaurant Guy Savoy – Las Vegas in the United States
Other restaurants
- Restaurant rôtisserie Atelier Maitre Albert – 5th arrondissement of Paris
- Restaurant Les Bouquinistes – VIe arrondissement
- Restaurant Le Chiberta – 8th arrondissement of Paris
- Savoy Singapore – Marina Bay Sands in Singapore
Awards and accolades
- 2008 Grand Award, Wine Lists and Service, Wine Spectator Magazine for Restaurant Guy Savoy Las Vegas
- Best New Restaurants in the World- Travel + Leisure Magazine April 2007 for Restaurant Guy Savoy Las Vegas
Books
- Vegetable Magic with Guy Langlois, Edbury Press (1987)
- Guy Savoy: Simple French Recipes for the Home Cook (2004)