Le Grand Véfour
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Le Grand Véfour (Script error: No such module "IPA".), the first grand restaurant in Paris,[1] France, was opened in the arcades of the Palais-Royal in 1784 by Antoine Aubertot, as the Café de Chartres,[2] and was purchased in 1820 by Jean Véfour,[3] who was able to retire within three years, selling the restaurant to Jean Boissier.[4] A list of regular customers over the last two centuries includes most of the heavyweights of French culture and politics, e.g. Honoré de Balzac, Napoleon, Jean Cocteau, Colette and André Malraux[5] along with le tout-Paris.[6] Sauce Mornay was one of the preparations introduced at the Grand Véfour. Closed from 1905 to 1947, a revived Grand Véfour opened with the celebrated chef Raymond Oliver in charge in the autumn of 1948. Jean Cocteau designed his menu.[7] The restaurant, with its early nineteenth-century neoclassical décor of large mirrors in gilded frames and painted supraportes, continues its tradition of gastronomy at the same location, "a history-infused citadel of classic French cuisine."[8]
In 1983, the restaurant was destroyed in a bomb attack. It was then bought by Jean Taittinger who restored and reopened the place.[9]
When it lost one of its three Michelin stars in 2008[10] under the régime of Guy Martin for the Taittinger Group, it was headline news.[11]
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- ↑ Elizabeth Sharland, A Theatrical Feast in Paris: From Molière to Deneuve 2008:40ff, "Le Grand Véfour".
- ↑ A compliment to the aristocratic landlord, the duc de Chartres, soon to be known as Philippe-Égalité.
- ↑ Rebecca L. Spang, The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture, pp. 6, 64, 182, 187, 206, 220, 224, 226, 238f and 245.
- ↑ Sharland 2008:41.
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- ↑ Little brass plaques mark the favourite seats of notables like Colette and Victor Hugo.
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- ↑ Frommer's Guide
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- ↑ The third star, awarded Olivier in 1953 and lost with his departure, had been regained in the 2000 Guide Michelin ("Les étoiles du Grand Véfour" Template:Webarchive).
- ↑ "Grand Vefour restaurant in Paris loses third Michelin star" International Herald-Tribune,, 3 March 2008
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