Consecration for Hélène Darroze. As the chef prepares to start a new season of Top chef, the British edition of the Michelin Guide awards it a third star for the cuisine of The Connaught restaurant in London. Located in the upscale Mayfair district for over a century, this is part of the luxury hotel of the same name. Arriving at her helm in 2008, Hélène Darroze quickly won her first star there. The second will arrive three years later, in 2011.
This promotion is an event when we know that out of the 130 chefs to have three stars in the world, there are only 7 women (the Briton Clare Smyth (promoted at the same time), the Spaniard Elena Arzak, the Italian Nadia Santini and three French women: Annie Féolde (based in Italy), Anne-Sophie Pic and Dominique Crenn (based in the United States). I’m still shaking … it’s incredible”, Declares Hélène Darroze in the newspaper The world. “ I did not expect that. We felt that there had been a lot of inspections, especially in the last two weeks of opening. But PFor me, it was unattainable, I always thought that I did not have enough rigor. I don’t know how I’m going to believe it. “
Two stars in the Michelin guide of France with her Parisian restaurant Marsan, Hélène Darroze now has five stars, which makes her the second most starred woman in the world behind the French Anne-Sophie Pic and her eight stars (three for the Maison Pic in Valence in France, two for the Beau-Rivage Palace in Lausanne, two for the Dame de Pic in London and one for the Dame de Pic in Paris).