Marc Veyrat opens a new gourmet restaurant in Megève

The Haute-Savoie chef no longer wants to “never be in Michelin” and wants to “show them that a restaurateur can work very well without them.”

Chef Marc Veyrat is embarking, at the age of 74, on a new adventure by opening a new gourmet restaurant, in the very chic resort of Megève, where a little over twenty years ago he was at the height of his glory. So here he is back with a menu costing 450 euros, just enough to pay his employees. Him, on the other hand, in any case that’s what he assures at the Parisiangains nothing, except the love of creativity. It’s not easy to let go of the piano and his cuisine based on alpine plants, which he likes to say he learned to recognize when he walked the six kilometers that separated him from school.

A new adventure and a return to his roots for the man who is also sometimes nicknamed the phoenix, who was reborn from his ashes, after the fire in a restaurant, but also in 2006 after a skiing accident which left him with 17 fractures, and many scars.

One of these scars lies in its relationship with the Michelin Guide. Guide that Marc Veyrat took to court six years ago for having stripped his restaurant, La maison des bois, of its three stars and having downgraded it to 2 stars. A first. An injury so severe that he sometimes thought of the worst, before he decided to give up all his stars and file a complaint against the guide. A lost trial. And a raw wound, which will never close. Because fractures following a ski accident leave the possibility of rebuilding, but an injury to the soul…that’s different. So of course we told him “take some distance Marco, the Michelin, we don’t care.” But he doesn’t care, I don’t care.” And today, Marc Veyrat proclaims it throughout the press, he no longer wants “never be in the Michelin and show them that a restaurateur can work very well without them. So they don’t dare show up here.”