Troisgros brothers

the family Troisgros , Marie Troisgros then her son Pierre Troisgros, then its grandson Michel Troisgros is large chief cooks restorers oenologists French of famous restoring " The brothers Troisgros " with Roanne. Three stars with the Guide Michelin since 1968 and 19/20 with the Gault-Millau. They have the international reputation to be the best among the elite of the French kitchen with a continuity on three generations. Their restaurant " The brothers Troisgros " of Roanne is qualified by the Gault-Millau of " better restoring world " .

Biography

Jean-Baptiste and Marie Troisgros

Jean-Baptiste Troisgros and his Marie wife, of Burgundian origin , hold the " coffee of the traders " with Chalon-sur-Saône in Burgundy. They have two Jean wire in 1926 and Pierre in 1928, which they raise in the idea of the restoration of quality.

In 1930, the Troisgros family is installed with Roanne to 90 km in the west of Lyon at the borders of the Burgundy, of the Vallée of the Rhone and the Auvergne, on the Trunk road 7. They buy the restoring hotel of the Plane trees opposite the station.

The completely self-educated couple in restoration ensures a table of hosts regional, middle-class and convivial. Marie Troisgros is with the furnaces and Jean-Baptiste plays the Masters of hotel and the Sommelier S. Their kitchen is simple, sincere and true, and it is out of the question to mask the Saveur products of quality by sauces nor to dissimulate them under cumbersome decorations. The high-class wines of Burgundy are with the honor.

Success and notoriety come quickly and they rename their " establishment; Modern hotel " in 1935.

Their two sons Jean and Pierre are high in the praises quasi religious of the great French kitchen. Old 15 years, they enter in kitchen like one enters in religion. Jean makes his training with Paris and Pierre with " the hotel of the Golf " with Étretat in Normandy and with Saint-Jean-with-Luz with the Basque Country. Their CAPE obtained, they work together with the " Lucas Carton " , prestigious restoring Place of the Madeleine in the 8th district of Paris with the large chief cook Gaston Richard, where they bind of a solid friendship with their comrade of furnace Paul Bocuse.

The three friends make then team in the prestigious one restoring " the Pyramid " of Vienna close to Lyon, in the big bosses Fernand Not and Paul Draper. Pierre and Jean also make a rapid passage at Maxim' S for one and the Hôtel of Crillon for the second before returning both to the cradle to Roanne where their father Jean Baptiste Troisgros wishes that its two sons help it and succeed to him.

Pierre and Jean Troisgros

In 1957, " the Modern Hotel " becomes " the Brothers Troisgros " with Pierre with the furnace, Jean the Master saucier and Jean Baptist for the reception, and as Master of hotel and Wine waiter with his good sense of the human contact. At the end of the meal it makes come its sons in room to present them to the customers. It is the beginning of one striking down rise towards the tops of the international gastronomy.

Jean and Pierre are high in the spirit of sobriety without sophistication, the requirement, the Perfection, excellence, the authenticity, curiosity, the produced S of quality, of the Créativité, the soil, curiosity always in awakening and the simplicity ever taken at fault. The Troisgros kitchen controls to perfection the subtle mixtures of the Goût S, the Saveur S and the soft, spiced and prickly Sensation S.

The Guide Michelin decrees their first star in 1955 to them, the second in 1965 and their very prestigious third star in 1968. 18/20 with the Gault-Millau and 4 stars with the Greedy Bottin.

In 1968 Christian Millau title as a cover for its magazine Gault-Millau: “I discovered the best restoring world”.

In 1970 the restaurant increases with the repurchase of a nearby building.

In 1983 Jean Troisgros dies. The place of the station is renamed " place Jean Troisgros " in its honor. Pierre continues with his Michel son starting from 1984.

Michel and Marie-Pierre Troisgros

Michel was born the April 2nd 1958 with Roanne. He makes the Hotel School of Grenoble between 1974 and 1982 where he meets his future Marie-Pierre wife whereas he is 16 years old. They leave to make the round the world tour to learn the trade at largest, Frédy Girardet with Lausanne, Taillevent with Paris, Michel Guérard with New York and some others with Brussels, San Francisco, London, Tokyo… He marries Marie-Pierre of which he has three children: Marion in 1983, César in 1986 and Léo in 1993.

It takes again the Troisgros restaurant of Roanne with his father Pierre Troisgros after the death of his uncle Jean in 1983 then it continues with his Marie-Pierre wife, mistress of hotel and decorator, in a cordial and modern environment of purified design, modernity, Zen, elegance and refinement, good being, intimacy, comfort, calm, of pleasure, by preserving the family spirit and the high level of reputation of the family establishment all while adding with talent their many international assets to it. Their three children are restorers also.

In 2000, Michel Troisgros becomes new the Tsar of the Russian Gastronomie by opening a Troisgros restaurant with Moscow. His/her brother Claude Troisgros holds a Troisgros restaurant with Rio de Janeiro with the Brésil. Anne Marie, the girl of Claude, holds the " Restaurant Gravelier " of Bordeaux.

Proverbs and quotations of Michel Troisgros

“to eat well, love of life”
This sentence of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: “One does not see well that with the heart, essence is invisible for the eyes”
“Our trade, it is the permanent search of the most beautiful product. The extraordinary one of a dish, finally, that holds with so much few things…”

Anecdote

In the years 1960, the Troisgros brothers developed one the most famous receipts of the gastronomy: the escalope of Salmon to the Sorrel. This preparation which became traditional was innovative during its introduction. Astonishing thing: this receipt evolved/moved with time and there are many alternatives (the current version is very refined, when one compares it with the version of origin).

Distinctions

1968 : Three stars with the Guide Michelin.
1972 : qualified “the best restoring world” by Christian Millau of the Gault-Millau.
1997 and 1998: “Better chart of the wines of the world” by the American Magazine Wine Spectator .
2000 : price " Restoration " and " Grand Prix of the Jury " trophies of the Web with Valley of Isere for their Internet site www.troisgros.fr.
2003 : crowned “chief of the year 2003” by the guide Gault-Millau.
19/20 with the Gault-Millau.
29/30 in Zagat Survey, which says it in its turn " better restoring world.

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