The French restaurant Le Suquet is excluded from the Michelin Guide.
Michelin-starred chef Sébastian Bras, who runs the restaurant, has had enough of cooking under the immense pressure of surprise visits from the guide's inspectors. Therefore, the restaurant will not be included when the 2018 guide is published next Monday.
– It's difficult for us to include a restaurant in the guide that doesn't want to be there, says Claire Dorland Clauzel, who represents the Michelin Guide.
Le Suquet in Laguiole in central France holds the top rating of three stars in the Michelin Guide, a position the restaurant has maintained for 18 years.
As early as September last year, Sébastian Bras signalled that he wanted to escape Michelin and the pressure of knowing that every day one of the 500 dishes prepared in the restaurant could be judged.
“I might become less famous, but I accept that,” he said then.
Only 27 restaurants in the world currently have three stars in the Michelin Guide.
Source: TT
