The Michelin guide awarded a second star on Monday at “Maison Nouvelle”, in Bordeaux, one of the restaurants of the very media chef Philippe Etchebest.
Open at the end of 2021, the establishment of the cook, sworn in “Top chef” and host of several other programs on M6 including “Nightmare in the kitchen”, had obtained his first macaroon only a few months later.
“I would like to hello my wife, who is not there. I kiss her very, very strong. If I am here today, it is also a lot thanks to her and, of course, to my teams, ”he commented on the stage of the Congress Center Robert Schuman in Metz, who hosts the event.
“If we can go to three, we will go”
“I want to recover the two stars I had in Saint-Emilion, and if we can go to three stars we will go,” warned the 58-year-old chief with 20 minutes, a few weeks after the opening of his restaurant.
Before “New Maison”, Philippe Etchebest, who joined the closed circle of the best workers in France (MOF) in 2000, distinguished himself at the kitchens of the Château des Reynats (Dorgogne), where he obtained his first Michelin star in 2001, then at L’Hostellerie de Plaisance, in Saint-Emilion, where he won a second star in 2008.
“Share and transmit”
He will stay there for ten years. It was at the end of this period that he took his first steps on the small screen, in culinary reality TV shows developed by M6.
Programs like “Top Chef” are, for him, the opportunity to “share and transmit (his) vision of the catering profession through three facets: coaching, transmission and excellence”, he explains on his own website.
Other attributions
The Michelin guide also awarded a third star to the eponymous restaurant of Rochelais Christopher Coutanceau, two years after having withdrawn it, as well as to the Breton establishment “Le Coquillage” by Chef Hugo Roellinger. These two establishments are located in the west of France.
These two promotions bring to 31 the number of three -star addresses in France, after the demotion ten days ago from Maison Georges Blanc, in Vonnas, in Ain.
Hugo Roellinger and Christopher Coutanceau succeed Jérôme Banctel, chief of “Gabriel” in Paris, and Fabien Ferré, who had obtained three stars last year for the reopening of “La Table du Castellet”, in the Var, a rare fact.
White by Shinichi Sato and Sushi Yoshinaga from “Tomoyuki Yoshinaga” in Paris won a second macaroon only a year after having won a first star, while the “Abyss Monte-Carlo”, in Monaco, of Yasunari Okazaki is distinguished from its opening.
If, last year, no woman was part of the top of the record, this year the Michelin rewarded a second star La Cheffe Fanny Rey and his pastry companion Jonathan Wahid for their restaurant the “Auberge de Saint-Rémy”, in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, as well as the establishment “Rozó” in Marcq-en-Baroeul (North), run by chief Diego Delbecq and his Pastry companion Camille Pailleau.
The 2025 vintage of the Red Guide to Gastronomy also has 9 new two -star restaurants, 57 new restaurants one star (28 of them were not previously recommended by the Red Guide) and 10 new Green Star restaurants across France.
In total, the Michelin selection now recommends 654 star tables (31 three stars, 81 two stars and 542 a star) distributed throughout France.
Advanced demograd
In order not to spoil the festivities, the downgrades had been announced upstream. This year, no media storm at Marc Veyrat in 2019 or Guy Savoy in 2023, but the loss of the third star for the Maison Georges Blanc, after 44 years at the top.
Created in 1900 by the André and Edouard Michelin brothers for motorists, the Michelin guide is today present in Europe, Asia, North and South America, and is available in more than 50 destinations, he underlines.
