Pierre Gagnaire
Pierre Gagnaire (born 9 April 1950) is a French chef, and the head chef and owner of the eponymous Pierre Gagnaire restaurant at 6 rue Balzac in Paris (in the
8th arrondissement). Gagnaire is an iconoclastic chef at the forefront of the
fusion cuisine movement. Beginning his career in
St. Etienne where he won three
Michelin Stars, Gagnaire tore at the conventions of classic French cooking by introducing jarring juxtapositions of flavours, tastes, textures, and ingredients.
On his website, Gagnaire gives his
mission statement as the wish to run a restaurant which is 'facing tomorrow but respectful of yesterday' (''"tourné vers demain mais soucieux d'hier"'').
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