Maguy Le Coze (born 1944) is a restaurateur and the co-owner of

Le Bernardin Le Bernardin is a French seafood restaurant in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Gilbert Le Coze and his sister Maguy Le Coze started the restaurant in Paris in 1972, where it was called Les Moines de St. Bernardin. They restarted the resta ...

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. In 1972 she moved to Paris to open the first version of Le Bernardin with her brother

Gilbert Le Coze Gilbert Le Coze (1945 – 28 July 1994) was a French chef known for his innovative methods in seafood preparation. Le Coze's cooking has been compared to Japanese cuisine and has influenced a generation of American cooks. In 1972 he left Br ...

. After receiving multiple Michelin stars in Paris between 1976 and 1981, Maguy and Gilbert opened a second Le Bernardin in New York in 1986. In 2013 Maguy became the first woman to receive a James Beard Award for Outstanding Restaurateur.

Ratings and reviews

* Le Bernardin, four-star rating from ''

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'' since 1986. * Le Bernardin, three-star rating from the

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since 2005. * Le Bernardin, number 17 on The World's 50 Best Restaurants list for 2017.

Awards

*1996,

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. *2013, James Beard Award for Outstanding Restaurateur.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Le Coze, Maguy 1944 births Living people French restaurateurs French emigrants to the United States Women chefs