Robb Report: How the World’s No. 1 Ranked Restaurant Is Reinventing Itself Around the Moon and the Stars
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June 22, 2020
During the three-month lockdown in France, the chef of Mirazur, one of the world’s most highly regarded restaurants, took a step back and realized he didn’t like what he saw.
It’s a surprising confession from chef Mauro Colagreco, who was at the top of his game until the restaurant was forced to shutter in mid-March due to the global health pandemic. In 2019, Colagreco became the first foreign-born chef in France to earn three Michelin stars, and the French Riviera restaurant topped the influential World’s 50 Best Restaurants ranking.
But when Covid-19 hit France, the pandemic forced Colagreco to stop and slow down. After years of working at warp speed, the chef suddenly found himself at a standstill, forced to take stock of his life, of his restaurant; to do some serious soul searching.
“During the lockdown I had a lot of time to think,” Colagreco said. “Together with my wife Julia, we began to question everything. ‘What type of society do we want to live in? What kind of world do we want to leave to our kids? How should we be eating? Consuming? Working?’”
While stuck at home, the 43-year-old kept busy in the family garden, waking every morning between 6:30 am and 7 am to tend to the zucchini, tomatoes, strawberries, eggplants and herbs that needed his attention.
And it was here that he would come up with the idea to completely overhaul the restaurant that had turned him into an international, gastronomic superstar, and create an entirely new menu centered around the pillars of biodynamic farming and the power of the moon and the stars: Universe Mirazur.
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