A Guide To The World's Best Fine Dining Restaurants

France - Best 'Training Grounds'

France - The New Guard  -

Best of the Best & Best 'Training Grounds'

Note that the number after each chef's name indicates how many 3 star level chefs trained with them.

Alain Ducasse (9) Jean-François Piège, Arnaud Donckele, Mauro Colagreco, Claus-Peter Lumpp, Kei Kobayashi, Massimo Bottura, Clare Smyth, Hélène Darroze, Paul Pairet        

Guy Savoy (5) - Thomas Keller, Daniel Boulud, Gordon Ramsay, Corey Lee, Alain Verzeroli

Michel Bras (5) - Juan Mari Arzak, Hajime Yoneda, Kyle Connaughton, Alexandre Mazzia, Julien Royer

Alain Passard (4) - Arpège, Alexandre Mazzia, Mauro Colagreco, Alain Verzeroli, Björn Frantzén

Pierre Gagnaire (2) - Juan Mari Arzak, Eric Pras

Marc Veyrat (2) - Yoann Conte, Emmanuel Renaut

Michel Troisgros (2) - Lionel Beka, Vittorio Cerea

Georges Blanc (5) - Daniel Boulud, Charlie Palmer, Vittorio Cerea, Joan Roca, Enrico Cerea

Lucas Carton (4) - Christian Le Squer, Corey Lee, Julian Serrano, Michel Troisgros

Frédy Girardet (3) - Franck Giovannini, Glenn Vie, Michel Troisgros

Louis Outhier (2) - Jean Georges Vongerichten, Christophe Bacquié

Claude Peyrot / Vivarois (2) - Bernard Pacaud, Josiah Citrin

Gérard Boyer (2) - Lauren Petit, Frédéric Anton

Bernard Loiseau (2) - Eric Pras, Mauro Colagreco

La Tour d'Argent (2) - Eric Frechon, Eric Ripert     

Meurice Hotel (2) - Glenn Viel, Julien Tongourian

Hôtel de Crillon (2) - Gérald Passédat, Michel Guérard

'Who Trained Who'

Notes:

- Lists online about this topic are not to be found, so the results are less than scientific.

- These are just the French training chefs. For the remainder of other countries in Europe and the United States, see book information below.

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France - The Old Guard - 

Best of the Best 'Training Grounds'

Ferdnand Pointe (7) - founder of nouvelle cuisine. The most prolific training chef ever in history, having trained seven of the 18 Michelin three star rated chefs at the time, who trained 11 more chefs per below. His main disciples include Paul Bocuse, Alain Chapel, Louis Outhier, Francoise Bise, and Pierre & Jean Troisgros.

Michel Guérard (10) - Alain Ducasse, Michel Troisgros, Gérald Passédat, Sébastien Bras, Daniel Boulud, George Blanc, Arnaud Donckele, Arnaud Lallement, Alexandre Couillon, Lauren Petit

Pierre & Jean Troisgros (9.5) Guy Savoy, Glenn Viel, Michel Troisgros, Bernard Loiseau, Gérald Passédat, Elena Arzak, Enrico Cerea, Eric Pras, Marc Haeberlin, FrédyGiradet (influenced most by a dinner at Troisgros as he never trained with top chefs)

Joël Robuchon (8) - Frédéric Anton, Eric Ripert, Julien Tongourian, Christophe De Lellis, Claude Le Tohic, Michael Michaelidis, Peter Goossens, Sébastien Lepinoy

Gaston Lenôtre / Le Pre Catalan (8) - Alain Ducasse, Paul Bocuse, Michel Richard - Citronelle(Gayot 18 - Washington D.C), Thomas Keller, Enrico Cerea, Marc Haeberlin, Regis Marcon, Peter Goossens

Roger Vergé (7)- Alain Ducasse, Daniel Boulud, Arnaud Lallement,  Michel Troisgros, Vittorio Cerea, Enrico Cerea, Lauren Petit

Alain Senderens (7) - Alain Passard- L'Arpege, Alain Solivérès- Taillevent, Christian Le Squer-Le Cinq, Christopher Hache - Hôtel de Crillon, Eric Pras, Pierre Gagnaire, Simon Rogan    

Paul Bocuse (6) - Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Glenn Viel, Eckart Witzigmann(Austrian/3 stars), Marc Haeberlin, Glenn Viel, Pierre Gagnaire  

Alain Chapel (6) - Alain Ducasse, Guy Savoy, Arnaud Lallement, Glenn Viel, Michel Troisgros, Harald Wohlfahrt

Paul Haeberlin (6) - Olivier Nasti, Jean-Christophe, Claude Le Tohic, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Glenn Viel, Marc Haeberlin

Taillevent (6) - Christian Le Squer, Frédéric Anton, Thomas Keller, Michel Troisgros, Olivier Chaignon, Alain Verzeroli