Topic: Francois Simon

The 100th edition of the famed Michelin restaurant guide showered stars Monday on President Nicolas Sarkozy's favourite Parisian haunt and on British chef Gordon Ramsay's first French venture.Only one restaurant joined Michelin's elite three-star club in the 2009 French edition of the ...

The State of French Cuisine

Le Figaro restaurant critic Francois Simon is shaping the future of French cuisine with his iconoclastic, often provocative opinions. "And crisis is just what we need," declares Francois Simon, food critic for Le Figaro, one of France's leading newspapers. "France has lost ...