Since long-term memory seems to get better as those nasty, un-needed, short-term Betz cells die off, I'm going to suggest a topic based on old time places, long gone. These chefs and restaurants can be totally gone, caduc, disappeared; succeeded in chefdom or other circumstances; or where a chef reached his pinnacle (in one's opinion). We've touched on the issue in several topics, most recently in Arpege: 2006-present. So I've moved the relevant posts to this topic and we can concentrate on old memories here. The following was Julot's contribution that started it off.
Oh, and I forgot -- I am just old enough that I was able to live the last days of Claude Peyrot's Vivarois -- And that was in the top league, no doubt.
Great Restaurants that are no more
in France: Dining
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What a great topic that brings back such enjoyable memories.
I have been thinking back to:
Armes de France in Auch when Daguin was there: the wonderful foie gras and duck
Nandron in Lyon for the most fabulous quenelles-especially on News Year Day for lunch.
Hielly Lucullus in Lyon-although I do not recall any specific meals
and now unfortunately Greuze in Tournus-truely the last of a tradition of abundant and joyfull dining.