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  • The northern chef Florent Ladeyn announced on Saturday on the Facebook page of his Auberge du Vert Mont that the establishment had lost its star.
  • The restaurant has been awarded a Michelin star since 2014.
  • Florent Ladeyn claims not to understand this decision, but to respect it.

“The Michelin guide has decided to remove our badge. I don't understand this decision, but I respect it. The northern chef Florent Ladeyn announced on Saturday on the Facebook page of his Auberge du Vert Mont that the establishment had lost its star, acquired in 2014 in the Michelin guide.

"Some calls carry less joyful news than others, and last night that received before my service is part of it," regrets the man who had known national fame by participating in the TV show Top Chef , in 2013. Since then, Florent Ladeyn opened two other stores in Lille: Bloempot in 2015 and Bierbuik-Bloemeke in 2019.

A star is like a rabbit

At the head of his Vert Mont inn in Boeschèpe, in Flanders, he says he is surprised, but puts the loss of this star into perspective: "In my eyes, I always said that the best restaurant is the one that is full , not the highest rated. "

The young 35-year-old chef compares this star to a rabbit reportedly brought to him by a friend, according to a rural tradition, on his birthday. "The rabbit, you didn't necessarily want it but you have it so you take care of it, give it food, drink, and clean its cage ... I have the impression that we didn't give a damn about the mouth of the rabbit (...) But the boyfriend came and got the rabbit without warning us ... And the rabbit, even if I hadn't dreamed of it, well I had learned to love it. "

Florent Ladeyn ensures that he will not make a controversy of it, like the one that was born after the loss of a star in the inn of Paul Bocuse. "I'm not sad to lose a star, I just feel very stupid at the investment of my fifteen guys," he explains. All things considered, the Michelin guide has the importance we want to give it. With us, our pleasure is yours, not the notes. "

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