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L'Ambroisie, a traditional French restaurant in Paris, France, is a thirty-year winner of Michelin three-starred restaurant. The name L'Ambroisie comes from Greek mythology, and it means "food for god" and "source of immortality".

Location
The restaurant is in a period house on the Southwestern corner of the ancient Place des Vosges, Paris. In the 17th and 18th century, Place des Vosges is an indication of upper-class and nobility. The noble style is preserved until now, which gives a low-key luxury to the restaurant.

Chef
The chef is Bernard Pacaud. Bernard Pacaud was abandoned by his parents at age 13 and raised in an orphanage in the mountains of Lyonnais.

Bernard Pacaud started at age 15, in 1962, as an apprentice at the famed Eugenie (Mére) Brazier restaurant, Col de la Luère (20 km away from Lyon. He spent the next three years as a commis at the Tante Alice restaurant in Lyon. He then became chef de partie at La Méditerranée in Paris . Pushed by Eugénie Brazier encouragements, he applied to work in 1976 with Claude Peyrot, the chef and owner of the Vivarois (a Michelin three-star restaurant), avenue Victor Hugo in Paris. In 1981 he opened his own restaurant quai de la Tournelle (at the crossing with rue de Bièvres) in Paris . Finally, in 1986, he opened L'Ambroisie at place des Vosges and obtained three Michelins stars in 1988, which he has kept since then. His refined and classical cooking style makes it one of the most esteemed French restaurants.

As a person cares the most about perfection in dishes and customer experience, Bernard Pacaud rarely comes into the public's sight because he devotes himself to cuisine in the kitchen. Bernard Pacaud values a lot about the quality of ingredients, which even made himself a deficit when he first opened the restaurant. He follows the traditional process of making food, takes the utmost care in the dish, and presents every plate as an elegant art. Tasting the dishes in L'Ambroisie, customers are able to have experience with multiple food in one dish. The harmonious combination of ingredients is one of the showcases of Bernard's professional skills.

Even after Bernard Pacaud passed over the restaurant to his son Mathieu in 2012, he still pays close attention and makes sure the restaurant maintains its high-level service and quality.

History

 * L'Ambroisie won the First Michelin star in 1982, and won the second one in the following year.
 * L'Ambroisie won the Third Michelin star in 1988, 5 years after winning the second star.
 * In November 2015, President Barack Obama had dinner with President Francois Hollande and US Secretary of State John Kerry at L'Ambroisie.
 * In 2019, L'Ambroisie was featured in the Japanese TV drama グランメゾン東京 ("Grand Maison Tokyo") as one of the restaurants in which the drama took place.