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For twenty-six years, Chef Georges
Perrier has been Philadelphia's premier
five-star chef. A native of Lyons, Chef
Perrier opened Le Bec-Fin in 1970 as a
small, thirty-five seat restaurant on
Spruce Street. By 1983, Le Bec-Fin was
so well-known and highly-regarded that
it necessitated a move to its current
location on Walnut Street. Furnished in
the style of Louis XVI, with grand
chandeliers and an extensive wine list,
Le Bec-Fin (meaning a "fine beak" or,
metaphorically, a person of taste, such
as a gourmand) celebrated forty years in
2010.
Recently, the Philadelphia International
Festival of the Arts (PIFA) announced
Perrier, a regional member of the
Maîtres Cusiniers de France (Master
Chefs of France), as the first recipient
of the Culinary Visionary Award, which
will be presented to Perrier during
PIFA's Opening Night Gala on April 7th.
In keeping with PIFA's themes of
collaboration and creativity, PIFA is
bringing eleven renowned chefs from
Lyons and Paris to work alongside their
City of Brotherly Love counterparts for
a three-night partnership at restaurants
throughout Philadelphia from the 13th of
April through the 15th of April. Each
French chef will create culinary chefs
d'oeuvre to highlight the diversity of
French cuisine - and technique. At Le
Bec-Fin, Chef Perrier will be paired
with Mathieu Viannay from La Mère
Brazier in Lyons. The PIFA menus will be
featured at the host restaurants from 13
April through 1 May 2011; reservations
are required.
Expect nothing less than gastronomic
genius throughout Philadelphia - which
is to be expected from the City that
gave us both cheese steaks and Le Bec-Fin.
The pairings include:
Michael Abt of Parc with Frédéric
Berthod of 33 Cité
Terence Feury of Fork with Simon
Lacassin of Préfecture du Rhône
Daniel Stern of R2L with Babette De
Rozieres of La Table de Babette
Pierre Calmels of Bibou with Olivier
Paget of Le Fleurie
Jon Cichon of Lacroix with Frédéric Côte
of Restaurant au Colombier
Chris Scarduzio of Table 31 with Arnaud
Languille of ClostaTraiteur
Olivier Desaintmartin of Caribou Café
with Jean-Paul Borgeot of La Tassée
Dan Black of Amuse (Le Méridien Phila)
with Eric Brujan of L’Orénac Le Méridien
Etoile
Peter Woolsey of Bistrot La Minette with
Joseph Viola of Daniel et Denise
Georges Perrier of Le Bec Fin with
Mathieu Viannay of La Mère Brazier
Michael Yeamans of Rouge with Nasserdine
Mendi of Chocolaterie Weiss
LINK:
http://pifa.org/culinarycomponent
Seventh in a series of features about
the Philadelphia International Festival
of the Arts (PIFA), continuing through
May 1 with the support of PIFA.
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