Jean-Michel Lorain
Jean-Michel Lorain | |
---|---|
Born | 7 January 1959 | (age 65)
Culinary career | |
Rating(s)
| |
Current restaurant(s)
| |
Website | cotesaintjacques |
Jean-Michel Lorain (born 7 January 1959) is a French chef. He is the owner of the restaurant La Côte Saint Jacques located in
Michel Lorain
His father Michel Lorain was born in 1934, son of Marie Lorain, restaurateur who founded La Côte Saint Jacques in Joigny, Yonne in 1945. Michel Lorain began his training course with a pastry chef and then succeeded to his mother at La Côte Saint Jacques in 1958 with his wife Jacqueline, a wine waiter.
In 1971, Michel Lorain received his first
Biography
Jean-Michel Lorain was born on 7 January 1959 in Migennes at 8 km of Joigny, the son of Jacqueline and Michel Lorain. He obtained a scientific high school final exam before beginning his training course with the famous brothers Pierre and Jean Troisgros in Roanne in 1977, and later at the famous restaurant Taillevent in Paris with the chef Claude Deligne in 1979.
He then made his military service, joined his father at the family restaurant for one year, and worked with the chef Frédy Girardet at Crissier in Switzerland in 1982 for a year and a half. In 1983, he came back at Joigny to join again his father Michel. He married Brigitte and they have two daughters, Marine and Alexandra.
In 1986, Michel and Jean-Michel Lorain received the grade of 19.5/20 at the
In 2004, the restaurant La Côte Saint Jacques recovered its third Michelin star lost in 2001 due to important renovations to improve the establishment, and kept it until 2015.
Honours
- Chevalier of the Legion of Honour
Bibliography
- 1987 : La Cuisine une passion de père en fils by Michel and Jean-Michel Lorain, Éditions Robert Laffont
- 1995 : Desserts en fête by Jean-Michel Lorain, Éditions Nathan (for children)
- 2000 : Cuisine émotion by Jean Michel Lorain, Éditions Minerva
- 2006 : Les Collections Lorain : Légumes by Jean-Michel Lorain, Éditions Glénat
- 2007 : Herbes, salades, et fleurs by Jean-Michel Lorain, Éditions Hachette
See also
- List of Michelin starred restaurants
References
- ^ "La Côte Saint-Jacques perd sa 3e étoile au guide Michelin" (in French). L'Est-Éclair. February 3, 2015.