Michelin Guide 2024: 8 new restaurants join Passion Dessert
On Monday March 18, 2024, 2,000 guests (including nearly 700 Michelin-starred chefs) gathered at the Palais des Congrès in Tours to hear which restaurants had won 2024’s Michelin stars and Special Awards.
At the prestigious annual "Cérémonie des Etoiles", eight outstanding establishments were awarded the Passion Dessert title. This prize is an opportunity for Valrhona and the Michelin Guide to shine a spotlight on France's most talented restaurant-based pastry chefs who have excelled in creating plated desserts.
Passion Dessert: celebrating ethical practice and pastry-making talent since 2019
While the Michelin Guide has been honoring chefs for decades, it wasn't until 2019 that the famous red book shone a spotlight on pastry chefs who make a significant contribution to the gastronomic experience.
The Passion Dessert title, launched in partnership with Valrhona, recognizes the work of dessert specialists of all ages who are paving the way for inventive and ethical pastry-making and offering their customers unique experiences.
Passion Dessert 2024 unveils this year’s masterpieces
For the award’s sixth year, Michelin Guide inspectors scoured France in search of exceptional plated desserts. Selection criteria were based on taste, originality, creativity, suppliers' production conditions, impact on consumer health, seasonality and respect for the environment.
Promozione Passion Dessert 2024
In 2024, eight restaurants led by talented pastry chefs are joining Passion Dessert. All of them are either refreshing the classics or exploring dessert’s hitherto uncharted frontiers.
Here are the eight restaurants which have been recognized for the quality of their desserts:
- Les Ambassadeurs by Christophe Cussac, Patrick Mesiano (Monaco)
Dessert trolley by Patrick Mesiano © Studio Phenix / Les Ambassadeurs by Christophe Cussac
- Ceto, Julieta Cañavate (Roquebrune-Cap-Martin)
Marine millefeuille with nori seaweed, bourbon vanilla, and toffee sauce by Julieta Canavate © Ceto
- Le Cap, Pierre-Jean Quinonero (Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat)
Grapefruit salad, blancmange, and fresh herb sorbet - © Marion Butet / Le Cap
- Auberge de l’Ill, Pascal Hainigue (Illhaeusern)
Tatin-style warm apple cake with Tahitian vanilla ice cream and a caramelized crisp by Pascal Hainigue © Auberge de l'Ill
- Mont Blanc Restaurant & Goûter, Benoit Goulard (Hauteluce)
Egg white soufflé with Hauteluce rhubarb by Benoît Goulard © Mont Blanc Restaurant & Goûter
- La Table du Castelet, François Luciano (Le Catsellet)
Nicaraguan chocolate, samphire and matured olive oil by François Luciano © L'Hôtel & Spa du Castellet
- Le Pré Catelan, Max Martin (Paris)
Bitter cocoa fondant tart with pistachio ice cream by Max Martin © Le Pré Catelan
- Hémicycle, Aurora Storari (Paris)
Plum confit with hibiscus and sesame crème brûlée by Aurora Storari © Thomas Dhellemmes / Hémicycle
Find out about previous award winners
Passion Dessert 2023
- Le Baudelaire, Pierre-Jean Quinonero (Paris)
- Le Jules Verne, Germain Decreton (Paris)
- Rouge, François Josse (Nîmes)
- Les Explorateurs - Hôtel Pashmina, Sébastien Deléglise (Val-Thorens)
- Flocons de Sel, Aurélie Collomb-Clerc (Megève)
- Troisgros - Le Bois sans Feuilles, César Troisgros & Romain Puybareau (Ouches)
- Mirazur, Marius Dufay (Menton)
Passion Dessert 2022
- La Rotonde – Hôtel du Palais, Aleksandre Oliver (Biarritz)
- Plénitude - Cheval Blanc, Maxime Frédéric (Paris)
- Louroc - Hôtel du Cap Eden Roc, Lilian Bonnefoi (Antibes)
- La Marine, Jérémy Garnier (L'Herbaudière)
- Les Belles Perdrix de Troplong Mondot, Adrien Salavert (Saint-Émilion)
- Le Grand Contrôle, Aymeric Pinard (Versailles)
Passion Dessert 2021
- Le Clair de la Plume, Cédric Perret (Grignan)
- La Table de Franck Putelat, Simon Pacary (Carcassonne)
- La Scène - Stéphanie Le Quellec, Pierre Chirac (Paris)
- Les Morainières, Sébastien Paris (Jongieux)
- Alliance, Morgane Raimbaud (Paris)
- L'Oiseau Blanc, Anne Coruble (Péninsula Paris)
- Accents table Bourse, Ayumi Sugiyama (Paris)
- Le Art, Maëlle Bruguera (Château de la Gaude)
- Restaurant Yoann Conte, Max Martin (Veyrier-du-Lac)
- La Magdeleine - Mathias Dandine, Yannick Piotrovski (Gémenos)
- La Côte d'Or, Aymeric Pinard (Saulieu)
Passion Dessert 2020
- Taillevent, François Josse (Paris)
- La Table de la Butte, Virginie Apparé (Plouider)
- Alléno Paris au Pavillon Ledoyen, Aurelien Rivoire (Paris)
- Skiff Club, Alexandre Blay (La-Teste-de-Buch)
- Le Gabriel, Adrien Salavert (Paris)
- Le Jardin de Berne, Eric Raynal (Lorgues)
- Le Colombier, Pascal Basso (Bartenheim-la-Chaussée)
- La Villa Archange, Sylvain Mathy (Le Cannet)
- La Palme d'Or, Julien Ochando (Cannes)
La promozion Passion Dessert 2019
- Pic, Eric Verbauwhede (Valence)
- Anne de Bretagne, Jérémie Bousseau (La Plaine-sur-Mer)
- La Chèvre d'Or, Julien Dugourd (Èze)
- Sarkara, Sébastien Vauxion (Courchevel 1850)
- Meurin, Ludovic Soufflet (Busnes)
- Table des Frères Ibarboure, Patrice Ibarboure (Bidart)
- Alain Ducasse au Plaza Athénée, Jessica Prealpato (Paris)
- Épicure, Julien Alvarez (Paris)
- La Grand-Vigne, Jordane Stiée (Martillac)
- La Table de l'Espadon, François Perret (Paris)
- Le Meurice, Cédric Grolet (Paris)
- George V, Michaël Bartocetti (Paris)
- Le Parc Les Crayères, Yoann Normand (Reims)
- Mère Brazier, Rodolphe Tronc (Lyon)
- Villa René Lalique, Nicolas Multon (Wingen-sur-Moder)
- Fanny Rey et Jonathan Wahid, Jonathan Wahid (Saint-Rémy-de-Provence)
- Loiseau des Ducs, Lucile Darosey (Dijon)
- Christophe Bacquié, Loic Colliau (Le Castellet)
- René et Maxime Meilleur, Anthony Fresnay (Saint-Martin-de-Belleville)
- La Fourchette des Ducs, Jessy Rhinn-Auvray (Obernai)
- Kei, Toshyiya takatsuka (Paris)
- L'Oustau de Baumanière, Brandon Dehan (Les Baux-de-Provence)
