Frédéric SIMONIN

Chef : 1 restaurant

Presentation

For Frédéric Simonin, the restaurant business came about by chance. "I was in a military boarding school, and we had to do work placements in different trades. A friend of mine said to me: 'Do some cooking, you'll see, you'll be fine, you'll have food all the time and you'll be warm'", he recounts. That's how he set off to do his apprenticeship in Saint-Brieuc.

The young chef showed great promise. In 1993 alone, Frédéric Simonin won Best Apprentice of Brittany, obtained his CAP and joined the Pavillon Ledoyen, under the direction of Ghislaine Arabian.

A year later, he left for Le Meurice, under Marc Marchand,"to gain hotel experience", before heading for Le Taillevent. From 1999 to 2000, he helped open Le Cinq restaurant at the George V, with MOF Philippe Legendre. The following year, Frédéric Simonin became second-in-command at Ghislaine Arabian's Parisian restaurant GA. " When she left, I took over as chef and we renamed it Le Seize au Seize."

In 2004, he was entrusted with the opening of the new restaurant La Table de Joël Robuchon, in Paris. Two years later, he became Executive Chef of L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon and La Cuisine de Joël Robuchon in London.

Since 2010, Frédéric Simonin has been at the helm of his eponymous restaurant in Paris. In addition to his 16/20 (3 toques) rating, the chef was also awarded the Techniques d'Excellence Île-de-France 2023 trophy.I was very happy," he says, "I put the plaque up in my restaurant. Now there's the Meilleur ouvrier de France plaque and, underneath it, the Gault&Millau plaque!"

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Biography & Awards

1975 Naissance à Issy-les-Moulineaux

1994 Le Meurice, auprès de Marc Marchand

1998 Le Taillevent, auprès de Philippe Legendre puis Michel Del Burgo

1999 Le Cinq, auprès de Philippe Legendre

2001 Second, puis chef du GA de Ghislaine Arabian, rebaptisé Le Seize au Seize

2004 Chef exécutif de La Table de Joël Robuchon, à Paris

2006 Chef exécutif de L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon et La Cuisine de Joël Robuchon, à Londres

2010 Ouverture de son restaurant Frédéric Simonin, à Paris

2018 Meilleur Ouvrier de France

2023 Trophée Excellence