Maguy Le Coze
From Scratch with Jessica Harris
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How Did You Start a Restaurant?
Before opening the restaurant, you dabbled in different areas for a few years. I modelled for e capalafers, then i was a receptionist in an hotel. Then i was hostess in a restaurant. And every year we would come back to brittany to help our parents. Eventually, you and your brother moved to paris. How did you both then make the decision to open the restaurant? Because there was nothing else that we knew. We did not know that it was going to be so difficult.
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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.
