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Georges Perrier (born 1943) is a French chef who emigrated to the United States in 1967 and lived in Philadelphia, where he founded and ran Le Bec-Fin and other restaurants, bars and cafés across the country.
After the divorce with his wife, he announced his retirement in 2012 and served Le Bec-Fin’s last dinner on June 15, 2013. It has housed other restaurants and was sold at auction to satisfy a judgement taken out by his ex-wife.
The newly divorced chef speaks about why his marriage ended and how soon he'll retire.
Le Bec-Fin chef Georges Perrier and his wife, Andrea Rosenstiehl Perrier, are headed to divorce court.
1 lis 2011 · Le Bec-Fin chef Georges Perrier and his wife, Andrea Rosenstiehl Perrier, are headed to divorce court. The chef, who is in his late sixties, and Mrs. Perrier, 42, married in Napa Valley in...
Perrier landed in Philadephia in 1967 to become head chef of Peter von Starck’s La Panetière. Three years later, he opened his own restaurant in downtown Philadelphia. Perrier named the restaurant Le Bec-Fin, a French idiom for “the good taste.”. The small restaurant quickly became a Philadelphia institution.
Le Bec-Fin was a French restaurant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that first opened in 1970. Owner and founder Georges Perrier named the restaurant after the French colloquialism for "fine palate".
