http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i4KjoHUkhozGzCPs-mxQnXZFlCWwPARIS (AFP) — France's food bible, the Michelin guide, will reportedly award two coveted stars to chef Gordon Ramsay's Trianon restaurant less than a year after it opened in Versailles.
Ramsay, 42, is among eight chefs who will be getting the two-star rating in this year's 100th edition of the Michelin guide for France, to be released on March 2, France Soir newspaper reported.
A third star will be awarded to Eric Frechon's luxury Hotel Bristol set in a Paris mansion in the upscale 8th arrondissement.
Frechon, 45, who has been working the stovetops at the Bristol for the past 10 years, is the only chef in France to join the three-star club in this year's special issue, according to Tuesday's edition of the evening paper.
Between his eponymous restaurant in Chelsea, London, and eateries across Britain, the United States and Asia, Ramsay holds 12 Michelin stars, ranking among the world's top chefs along with Joel Robuchon and Alain Ducasse.
Ramsay opened Le Trianon and the nearby La Veranda brasserie in a hotel overlooking the grounds of the Chateau de Versailles in March last year, his first formal foray into the French restaurant business.
Other chosen few slated to receive a Michelin star, which is to gastronomy what an Oscar is to film, include Michel Roth at the Ritz hotel in Paris and six other sensations from the French provinces, the report said.
These include a trio from the south: L'Atelier Jean-Luc Rabanel in Arles, l'Hostellerie de Castellas in Pont-du-Gard and le Faventia in Tourettes.
From southwest France, the Michelin guide is to award two stars to Le Saint-James in Bordeaux, as well as to Guy Lassausaie in Chasselay in central-eastern France and to Casa del Mar in Porto-Vecchio, Corsica.
A long list of restaurants will be getting their first star including the Jules Verne opened by veteran chef Ducasse on top of the Eiffel Tower.
