Gala Gault&Millau 2024: trophies awarded by the Yellow Guide

As always, there was plenty of emotion and tears - of joy - at the annual Gault&Millau ceremony. Chairman and CEO Patrick Hayoun and Director of Investigations Marc Esquerré presented more than a dozen trophies. Discover the complete list of the 2024 winners and the summary of the Gault&Millau 2024 Gala, as if you were there.

Where was the Gault&Millau 2024 ceremony held?

The Gala evening on November 6 brought together some 550 guests at the Pavillon d'Armenonville, allée de Longchamp, in the 16ᵉ arrondissement of Paris. Among the guests, 16 nominees were eager to find out if they had been rewarded: Restaurant Manager of the Year, Sommelier of the Year, Pastry Chef of the Year and Chef of the Year... Relive this festive evening of trophy presentations in replay on our various streaming channels on Facebook and Youtube.

The Gault&Millau 2024 prize list

The Yellow Guide spiced up this year's awards ceremony by naming four talents in each category. Here is the full list of 2024 winners:

For the title of Cook of the Year 2024

Yoann Conte, of the restaurant of the same name in Veyrier-du-Lac, was crowned Cook of the Year 2024. He was nominated alongside Jérôme Banctel, of Le Gabriel - La Réserve Paris Hotel and Spa in Paris, Olivier Bellin, of Auberge des Glazicks in Plomodiern, and Olivier Couvin, of Restaurant Paul Bocuse in Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or.

For the title of Pastry Chef of the Year 2024

This year, the title is spelled in the feminine, as Naraé Kim of the Pur' - Jean-François Rouquette restaurant at the Park Hyatt Paris-Vendôme in Paris has been crowned Pâtissière de l'Année 2024. Competing for the title were Benoît Charvet, from Paul Bocuse restaurant in Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or, François Josse, from Le Rouge in Nîmes, and Benoît Jabouille, from Restaurant des Rois - La Réserve de Beaulieu in Beaulieu-sur-Mer.

For the title of Sommelier of the Year 2024

After chef Olivier Nasti, in 2023, it's the sommelier's turn to receive a title. Jean-Baptiste Klein, of La Table d'Olivier Nasti in Kaysersberg, is Sommelier of the Year 2024. He was nominated alongside Nicolas Parmentier, of Château de la Gaude in Aix-en-Provence, Hervé Baligand, of La Pyramide in Vienne, and Éric Goettelmann, of Relais Bernard Loiseau in Saulieu.

For the title of Restaurant Manager of the Year 2024

Thierry Pruvot, with 40 years' experience at Le Pré Catelan in Paris, was named Restaurant Manager of the Year 2024. The list of nominees included Claire Sonnet, from Le Louis XV - Alain Ducasse at the Hôtel de Paris in Monaco, Christophe Vuillard, from Georges - Le Grand Monarque in Chartres, and Jessica Chelala, from La Pomme d'Api in Saint-Pol-de-Léon.

For the Grand de Demain title

The Gala was also an opportunity to see the six Grands de Demain on stage. You can find their portraits in the Guide France 2024, in bookshops this Thursday, November 9, 2023. Here's the list:

• Ludovic Turac, from the restaurant Une Table, au Sud, in Marseille

• Félix Robert, of Arborescence restaurant, Croix

• Antoine Gras, of La Table de l'Ours restaurant, Val-d'Isère

• Clio Modaffari and Anne Legrand, of Le Flibuste restaurant, Villeneuve-Loubet

• Tristan Weinling, of Utopie restaurant, Gueberschwihr

• Mathieu Pérou, of Le Manoir de la Régate, Nantes

Which chefs cooked at the Gault&Millau 2024 ceremony?

The four-part menu was orchestrated by four chefs you're probably already familiar with.

• Mallory Gabsi, of the restaurant of the same name in Paris 17ᵉ, proposed a starter based around blue lobster and caviar.

• Ludovic Turac, from Marseille restaurant Une Table, au Sud, cooked the first course, a revisit of the famous bouillabaisse with sea bream.

• Alessandra Montagne, from NOSSO restaurant in Paris 13ᵉ, prepared a veal fillet with butternut for the second course.

• Naraé Kim, from PUR' Jean-François Rouquette restaurant in Paris 2ᵉ, finishes the meal on a high note with a delight that combines chocolate and Galápagos coffee.

The Gault&Millau 2024 Gala in a nutshell

The evening began with a video retrospective of the year 2023. And what a year it was! With the Village de la Gastronomie (in partnership with the Lions Club Gastronomie), the Maison&Objet trade show, regional guides and the launch of the new "Gault&Millau, le magazine", 2023 was rich in new projects.

Gault&Millau presented a cheque for 7500 euros to the association Les Enfants Cuisinent, whose aim is to promote healthy eating in schools.

The Grands de Demain d'hier, or Grands d'aujourd'hui, thanked Marc Esquerré, the director of guides and surveys who has supported them for the past 20 years.

Among the many guests present were the chefs, of course, but also the press, partners and loyal supporters of Gault&Millau(Laurent-Perrier, De Buyer, Kaviari, Nespresso, BeWTR, Butard Enescot, Gérard Bertrand, Sysco, Argotier, Roz'ho, and The French Bastards).