Yes, Le Bernardin is a great New York City seafood restaurant but it is
also more than that - it is actually a genuine four-star restaurant which
is owned and run by genuine French-born cooking mavericks Maguy and Gilbert
Le Coze. Gilbert's experience in French cuisine stems from his youth spent
assisting his father and grandfather in the kitchen of their family-owned
restaurant and inn back in France, the Hotel de Rhuys. Maguy grew up
helping her mother in the dining room of the Hotel de Rhuys. The New York
Le Bernardin is actually an offshoot of the original Le Bernardin which was
first opened in Paris and had won two Michelin stars within four years of
its opening. Not bad for a shoestring operation.
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