Comme Chez Soi is a restaurant in Brussels

Brussels

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, Belgium

Belgium

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. The chef is Lionel Rigolet, Gault Millau

Gault Millau

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's Belgian Chef of the Year 2007.

For 27 years (as of 1979), it was rated with 3 stars by the Michelin Red Guide. In 2006 it was downgraded to two stars after chef and owner Pierre Wynants

Pierre Wynants

Pierre Wynants is a Belgian chef. He owned and led the Comme chez Soi restaurant in Brussels, one of the finest and most famous restaurants in Belgium....

 announced he would step down in favour of his son-in-law Rigolet.

The restaurant was founded in 1926 by Georges Cuvelier, originally a coal miner from the Belgian Borinage

Borinage

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 region. In the 1930's, it moved to its present location, an art nouveau

Art Nouveau

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house at Place Rouppe in Brussels, where it obtained its first Michelin star in 1953.

Generations of chefs

• Georges Cuvelier
• Louis Wynants, Cuvelier's son-in-law
• Pierre Wynants
• Lionel Rigolet

Michelin Stars

• 1953: one star (Cuvelier)
• 1966: two stars (Louis Wynants)
• 1979: three stars (Pierre Wynants)
• 2006: two stars (Pierre Wynants)

Trivia

The restaurant's name translates as "like at home". The name came about in its early years, when a patron told Cuvelier by way of compliment "Georges, in your restaurant one eats like at home" . Up to then, the restaurant had simply been called "Chez Georges".

External links

• Official Website