Alain Roux

[anonymous-user]

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[Mobile Chicane]

My guess would be that Alain's memories of The Waterside are even fainter than yours...

[tontoro]

Alain is a cousin, not brother.

He must not like the spotlight presumably

[Zod]

Alain Roux is the chef at the Waterside. He is the son of Michel Senior, who is still often in the kitchen. Both of them came to sit at our table for a while alst time we were there (they do it for most guests).

[zetec]

Alain Roux was on Saturday Kitchen a while back, from what I remember he shies away from the 'celeb chef' culture. I think it was his first apperance on live TV.

[Simpo Two]

tontoro said:

Alain is a cousin, not brother.

Zod said:

Alain Roux is the chef at the Waterside. He is the son of Michel Senior

[Banzai]

'Brother or Cousin? Cousin or Brother? Place Bets Now!!!'

[zetec]

BBC iPlayer Saturday Kitchen said:

Michel Roux Sr and his son, Alain Roux, cook together on television for the first time.

[FLGirl]

Simpo Two said:

[Banzai]

'Brother or Cousin? Cousin or Brother? Place Bets Now!!!'

Michel and Albert are brothers.
Alain and Michel Jr are their sons, they are the cousins.

[tontoro]

FLGirl said:

Michel and Albert are brothers.
Alain and Michel Jr are their sons, they are the cousins.

indeed. I think a lot of people assume the michel roux snr is the father of michel roux jnr - not an unreasonable thing to think!

[Simpo Two]

Aha. Here you go:

'Albert and Michel Roux, now in their 70s, left France in the 1950s. Initially they worked as private chefs for, respectively, the Cazalets (Major Cazalet trained the Queen Mother's horses) and the Rothschilds, before setting up their own restaurants. Albert opened Le Gavroche in central London, and Michel opened the Waterside Inn in the pretty Berkshire village of Bray, now clogged with tourists traipsing to Blumenthal's Fat Duck. Both chefs eventually won three Michelin stars, though Le Gavroche lost one in the 1990s and never regained it. Michel begat Alain, now chef patron at the Waterside, and Albert begat Michel Jr, who today owns Le Gavroche and has found fame on TV.'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/apr/21...

[OzzyR1]

Mobile Chicane said:

My guess would be that Alain's memories of The Waterside are even fainter than yours...

Over the last few years I have alongside Michel (Snr) and Alain with regards to various projects at the Waterside and some of their other interests.

Michel is the archetypal, almost cliched elderly Frenchman and has a great sense of humour, exists mainly on good wine and espresso. His son bears a passing resemblance to his more well-known cousin but is a lot more softly spoken and smokes a hell of a lot more than I imagined a 3* chef would (I always thought that if you relied on taste for a living, especially at that level, you wouldn't be smoking tens of fags a day!!)

Both great people who I am glad to now count as friends and although Fabrice runs the kitchen at the Waterside day to day Both Michel and Alain are both still heavily involved and are often around the place when they are in the country.