Three new three-star restaurants in the 2020 Michelin Guide

• Eagerly awaited by the gastronomy community, the selection of the Michelin Guide was unveiled on Monday during a ceremony hosted by Audrey Pulvar at the Pavillon Gabriel in Paris.
• This year, AA restaurants were promoted, including Xx and Yy who won their third star.
• New this year: the introduction of a “sustainable gastronomy” category, rewarded with a cube of earth, which rewards 50 chefs with a particular approach in favor of the environment.

No coronation for Jean-François Piège whose Le Grand restaurant is decidedly shunned by the Michelin Guide ... And yet, the stars awarded this Monday at the Gabriel Pavilion in Paris, have reserved some nice surprises. Christopher Coutanceau in La Rochelle (17), Kei Kobayashi in Paris (75) and L'Ousteau de Baumanière in Baux de Provence (13) are the new triple-starred chefs for this 2020 edition.

The first, very committed to sustainable fishing, was once again worried about the disappearance of marine resources. The second, did not fail to thank France for having "accepted our place", to all the Japanese chefs who have swarmed in recent times in the kitchen of French gastronomy. Last new three-star of the 2020 edition, L'Ousteau de Baumanière, mythical Provencal address, ex three stars who had lost them in 1990 and who finally find them again.

3 stars for Christopher Coutanceau in La Rochelle! #guideichelinFR pic.twitter.com/iZulwD1pnY

Stéphanie Le Quellec receives two stars at the Stage

At the start of the ceremony, Gwendal Poullenec, the director of the Michelin guides, had made a point of recalling to cut short the critics who rocketed after the decommissioning of Bocuse. “There is no exceptional treatment in the Michelin Guide. Before going on to the responsibility of the chefs who "have become major players on the media scene". The blame on programs like Top-Chef, probably, whose participants are not the last to rise to the top: proof again this year with Tabata Mey, one-star at Apothecaries in Lyon, or Stéphanie Le Quellec, " my darling, ”exclaims Audrey Pulvar, who succeeds in recovering, from her first year at the head of her new restaurant, La Scène, the two stars she previously held at the Prince of Wales. Other two-stars 2020: The Skiff Club at Pyla-sur-mer (33), La Maison Saint-Crescent in Narbonne (11), La Voile in Ramatuelle (83), Py-R in Toulouse (31), Racine in Reims (51), L'Atelier Joel Robuchon in Paris (75), L'Abysse au Pavillon Ledoyen in Paris (75), Le Taillevent in Paris (75), La Table de l'Alpaga in Megève (74), Le Sarkara in Couchevel (73)

49 new “one-star” tables

A new star for 49 restaurants across France, most of which are still little known, even if some of the chefs are already celebrities. This is particularly the case for Parisians Frédéric Anton (for his first year at Jules Vernes) or Yannick Alleno (for his new Pavyllon table), triple-star elsewhere.

Kelly Rangama, # 1 star in 2020: "We get up every morning for customers, we question ourselves every day." #Guide MichelinFr pic.twitter.com/4rqMIrOUaz

An earth cube for 50 chefs committed to the environment

And to follow up on the 2020 novelty: a label supposed to "highlight the chefs who are committed to helping our environment, through a sustainable development approach", an award sponsored for this first by Edouard Bergeon, the director of film In the name of the land with Guillaume Canet, who came to give the 50 winners cubes of the land from his father, a deceased farmer, as a trophy.

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