Mon, 28 May 2012
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Michelin crowned Eric Frechon's table with three stars, while foul-mouthed Ramsay was claiming a two-star "triumph".PARIS - The Michelin food guide showered stars on a favourite haunt of President Nicolas Sarkozy and on British chef Gordon Ramsay's first French venture, in its centenary edition released this week.
Only one new restaurant joined the elite ranks of Michelin's three-star club in the 2009 French edition of the make-or-break restaurant guide, Eric Frechon's temple to traditional French gastronomy at Le Bristol hotel in Paris.
A stone's throw from the Elysee Palace, Frechon's table is a regular haunt of the French leader, who has dined there in recent months with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Britain's ex-prime minister Tony Blair.
Michelin's secretive 90-strong team of inspectors has earned a battalion of critics, who attack the star system as rigid and old-fashioned.
But the buzz surrounding the food guide has kept the Michelin brand on top for more than a century, with 1.3 million copies of the guides sold every year.
The Michelin "Red Guide" began in 1900 as a way of promoting pneumatic tyres and guiding owners of the first motor cars to France's best restaurants.
No new editions were published during World Wars I and II, although the 1939 guide was re-issued in 1944 for Allied officers fighting their way through German-occupied France from the beaches of Normandy.
Monday's publication was therefore the 100th edition of the original French guide, while Michelin has spun-off new versions in 23 countries.
AFP/Expatica
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