Comme Chez Soi is a restaurant in Brussels, Belgium. The chef is Lionel Rigolet,

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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

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. In 2006 it was downgraded to two stars after chef and owner

Pierre Wynants Pierre Wynants (born 5 March 1939) is a Belgian chef. He owned and led the ''Comme chez Soi'' restaurant in Brussels. Under his ownership, the restaurant held three Michelin stars from 1979 until 2006. In 2004, he created the menu of the '' O ...

announced he would step down in favour of his son-in-law Rigolet. In 2022, Comme chez Soi lost another star, currently rated with one Michelin star. The restaurant was founded in 1926 by Georges Cuvelier, originally a coal miner from the Belgian

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

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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 (Lionel Rigolet)

Trivia

The restaurant's name translates as "just like 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".

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External links

Official Website
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