Well it’s a good job someone likes celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay (see story this page) and the fabled Michelin Guide has given his new Versailles restaurant Gordon Ramsay Au Trianon two stars.
This is pretty crazy for a restaurant that’s just opened but gives under fire Ramsay the opportunity to tell his many French critics to eff off (again).
The Michelin Guide is actually there to promote tyres rather than restaurants (you’re supposed to pop into these places for a bite en route to somewhere although this doesn’t really work when there’s a waiting list for a table of three months).
Next time you’re in Paris you may like to try Nicolas Sarkozy’s favourite caff, Le Bristol at the Hotel Bristol.
This is the only restaurant in this year’s new guide to move up from two stars to the coveted three (there are 26 three star restaurants in France).
Here again the critics don’t agree, including Le Figaro’s resident foodie Francois Simon who called the decision “politics.”
Mind you Simon had just been charged 533 euros for a meal for two.

