Bernard Loiseau

Biography

He is born the January 13rd 1951 with Chamalières in Auvergne in a modest milieu. His/her mother is a skilled cook who transmits to him the love of the French kitchen and her receipts of predilection: " the torta with the mushrooms " and " the shoulder of lamb ".

Training

In 1968, it enters in Apprentissage at the 16 years age at famous the Pierre and Jean Troisgros (the Troisgros Brothers) to Roanne, the year when this prestigious house takes down its Third star with the Guide Michelin, where it obtains his CAPE of kitchen in 1971. The young keen and ambitious chief hard-working, exceptionally gifted, equipped with a true genius of the gastronomy then decides to achieve his dream and his passion, to succeed in the restoration. He swears himself to have to him also a day Three stars with the Guide Michelin and to be one of largest French chief cooks the.

Restoring the Gold Coast in Burgundy

It is engaged by the chief Claude Verger with " The Barrier of Clichy " with Paris, which entrusts dice 1975 to him the management of its gastronomical great restaurant international " The Gold " Coast; with Saulieu in Burgundy where the chief Alexandre Dumaine contributed to the international glory of the French gastronomy of 1935 with 1964.

In 1991 it obtains the supreme dedication of the gastronomical medium: Three stars with the Guide Michelin and publishes its first book " Flight of savors ".

In 1982 after seven years of management, it buys " The Gold " Coast; while being involved in debt heavily and then dedicates its life to remake this establishment, after Alexandre Dumaine which he admires, one of the most place of world gastronomy and French culinary prestige.

It selects even best produced to him soil Bourguignon, limit the use of the Beurre and cream and privileges the juices of cooking. Its kitchen is an anthem with simplicity and balance, with the tastes of the soil frank and powerful for feasts of exceptions.

It becomes one of the most popular chiefs and ultrast mediatized of planet thanks to its direction of the media of which it is used for to acquire the international celebrity in addition to her exceptional talents of restorer. It makes come from the customers of the whole world with Saulieu in its famous restoring.

Commercial development

In 1995 it created the mark " Bernard Loiseau " and opens the Bernard Loiseau shop beside her restoring hotel in which it sells greedy products of the Bourguignon soil, selected wines, accessories and textile of kitchen, a selection of articles resulting from the regional craft industry Bourguignon and cookbooks.

Like its pars Paul Bocuse, White Georges, Alain Ducasse or Marc Veyrat etc, it wants to develop a commercial empire of hotel trade restoration of luxury and very ambitious derivative products under its mediatized ultra name: rooms Relay and Châteaux in its hotel managed by its wife, opening of three restaurants with Paris, the three aunts, " aunt Louise " , " aunt Marguerite " and " aunt Jeanne " , cellar of exception with 45.000 wine bottles 1500 different references, a framework of great standing of exception, multiple advertizing contracts of Television, derivative products, delivered in France, with the the United States and the Japan. It develops a range of top-of-the-range cooked dishes of large distribution with the company ACTED.

In December 1998, it founds the company " Bernard Loiseau SA " that it introduces on the second stockmarket becoming the first chief in the world with being with dimensions in purse what is worth to him the one of the NewYork Times to the the United States. Whereas it has a loan of 4,5 million euros, it obtains 5 million euros additional to continue its important development program.

Disappearance and succession

In 2003, it projects to open a hotel of character and luxury the following year in south-west, near Toulouse. Following very heavy loans and a financial and professional pressure important, in a depressive state latent, with large a chronic Anguish, with an obsessional spirit of research of the perfection eternally dissatisfied, following a retrogradation from 19/20 to 17/20 in the famous guide Gault-Millau and with criticisms not very eulogistic and humiliating on behalf of these judges in 2003, in front of the severity of criticisms which reproach him for falling asleep on its bay-trees and its celebrity with the detriment of her real creativity to be renewed unceasingly, it Suicide without official explanations the February 24th 2003, at the 52 years age, in its house of Saulieu, leaving a great astonishment and a certain mystery on the causes of its early retirement. A life insurance subscribed with option commits suicide in the name of his wife and of his/her three children the totality of its important loans regulated.

Following its disappearance, its group and his wife Dominique Loiseau, as well as the chief Patrick Bertron (his pupil and right-hand man during 20 years), took again the torch with brilliance while continuing to make perdurer successfully the spirit and the Three stars of Bernard Loiseau.

His wife written and publishes in 2003 a biographical book on her husband: " Bernard Loiseau my husband " with the editions Michel Lafon. " The Gold " Coast; at summer renamed " The Relay Bernard Loiseau " in its honor.

Standard day of Bernard Loiseau (18 hours per day)

08:00: Bureaucracy, mail, organization of the work forces.
09:30: Cook, discussions, suggestions of ideas.
11:30: To lunch.
12:00: Personal reception of the first customers, then supervision of the kitchens and the furnaces.
15:00: Small nap then drives out or fishes in the Morvan as a recluse or collecting of bay S and Champignon S.
20:00: Personal reception of the customers of the evening, then again supervision of the furnaces and its teams…

Distinctions

1991 : Three stars with the Guide Michelin.
19/20 in Gault-Millau.
Its hotel with restaurant " The Gold " Coast; from Saulieu obtains the " Crimson " at Relay & Castles.
Its wax statue to the Museum Grévin, beside that of Paul Bocuse.

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