The name Roux has grand connotations in United kingdom kitchens. Indeed Michel Roux Junior. is of just about culinary blue bloodstream. Among Britain’s most highly respected and finest loved chefs, he would be a natural option for the 2013 update of classic BBC Two programme Food & Drink.
His father Albert Roux and Uncle Michel Roux were the very first Brits to attain three Michelin stars for his or her London restaurant Le Gavroche. Michel Roux Junior been trained in classical French cookery at Le Gavroche, along with other restaurants working in london, Hong Kong and, obviously, Paris. This incorporated military service employed in the kitchens from the Elysee Palace.
Michel also did a stint in the Waterside Inn, in Bray, Berkshire operated by his uncle and also the first restaurant outdoors France to carry three Michelin stars for twenty five years.
Michel came back to Le Gavroche in 1990 and required within the restaurant when his father upon the market in 1993. He's written several cookbooks and first acquired TV recognition appearing on Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen. He grew to become among the idol judges on BBC Two’s MasterChef: The Experts, and fronts BBC Two’s Food & Drink programme.