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Marco Pierre White(07 May 2008 12:29)Marco Pierre White recently burst back into the public eye as Gordon Ramsay’s successor to host ITV’s Hells Kitchen series but the volatile chef and restaurateur forged his place in history more than 20 years ago. For starters, Marco Pierre White was the first Briton and the youngest chef in the UK to win three Michelin stars. Article continues below
He was the AA Chef of the Decade in 2002, while a 2003 Caterer survey of Michelin-star chefs rated White the second greatest living UK chef (after the Roux brothers) and his White Heat book the most influential cook book.
White made his name after launching Harvey’s in Wandsworth, London, in 1986 which scooped its second Michelin star in 1988. He gained a third Michelin star in 1995, three years after closing Harvey’s (which became Chez Bruce) and establishing Restaurant Marco Pierre White in the Forte Hyde Park hotel (now the Mandarin Oriental). When the Hyde Park was sold, he moved his restaurant to the Le Meridien Piccadilly hotel in 1996, renaming it the Oak Room and continuing to cook until December 1999 when he controversially “returned” his three Michelin stars and hung up his whites to focus on his growing restaurant empire. This included leading London venues such as Titanic and the Michelin-starred Canteen (co-owned with actor Michael Caine). Sugar Reef, Red Cube, Maison Novelli, Chez Max and Wheeler’s of St James are other leading eateries that White has been involved with. His most enduring partnerships have been with Jimmy Lahoud (with whom he set up White Star Line in 1999), hotelier Sir Rocco Forte and, more recently, Italian jockey Frankie Dettori, with whom he co-owns the grill chain of Frankie’s Italian Bar and Grill. White Star Line still owns the Belvedere, Criterion, and L’Escargot fine-dining restaurants, having sold Drones, Mirabelle and Quo Vadis in 2007. He is also lined up to star in a new US reality-TV show, The Chopping Block.
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