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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.
Chef Georges Perrier became master-in-residence at The Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College in 2017, and he began his role at "Le Bec-Fin Redux," a one-night-only reprisal of his menu in the restaurant that would later become Bistro Perrier.
He started life in a city world renowned for its culinary arts, and it clearly left its thumbprint on the master chef. Born and raised in Lyon, France, Perrier started his fated culinary journey at the age of 14.
In 2009 the French government awarded Chef Perrier the Legion d’ Honneur. But the years had taken its toll on this perfectionist chef, who was married to his business. After the divorce with his wife, he announced his retirement in 2012 and served Le Bec-Fin’s last dinner on June 15, 2013.
26 lut 2016 · And its chef, Georges Perrier, a Lyon native, has had an unrivaled influence on cooking in Philadelphia and far beyond. Now there's a documentary to tell Perrier's story to a new audience.
15 gru 2022 · Greg Moore, a general manager and sommelier, owns one of the region’s premier wine shops, Moore Brothers Wine Co., with his brother, David. Two of his chefs — Nicholas Elmi (now at Laurel, Lark, and Landing Kitchen) and Kevin Sbraga (Sbraga, The Fat Ham, now a consultant) — won Bravo’s Top Chef.
12 cze 2018 · But let's flash back to March 5, when chef Georges Perrier, 74 — who put Philadelphia on the culinary map decades ago with Le Bec-Fin — collapsed outside his Center City apartment building. A neighbor, Nancy Petersmeyer, who is a physician, said she found Perrier unresponsive, his skin gray, his eyes glassy.
