Maguy Le Coze
From Scratch with Jessica Harris
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What Was the Restaurant Landscape at the in Midtown?
It was kind of accidental that you launched in this neighborhood. We had some of our employesw were mugged. The good thing was that new york is undher water. So we were treated very well with them. Was the first restriter ever going to the fish market. That was very interesting, because he made the fish market discovered by the jon alist who came with him. And then the chive went with him and suddenly the fish market as been known.
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Transcript
As a teenager, Maguy Le Coze and her brother Gilbert were introduced to the culinary life while helping their parents in their hotel restaurant in Brittany, France. But staying in the French countryside was not for her. Maguy and Gilbert opened Le Bernardin first in Paris, and later in New York City in 1986. Le Bernardin is considered one of the finest restaurants in the world, earning three Michelin stars and four stars from The New York Times since it opened. Celebrity chef Eric Ripert is the restaurant’s co-owner and chef.
