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, New York City, named after its owner

Jean-Georges Vongerichten Jean-Georges Vongerichten (; ; born in Alsace, France, on 16 March 1957) is a French chef.

. According to the

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, it is one of the top five best French restaurants in

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. It also remains one of the few restaurants in the city awarded four stars by ''

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''. The current executive chef is Mark LaPico and executive pastry chef is Sean Considine.

Awards

Besides four stars from The New York Times, Jean-Georges has received the

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award for Best Chef and Best New Restaurant, and

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voted Chef Vongerichten the Chef of the Year in 1997. Jean-Georges restaurant formerly held three Michelin stars. In 2008 it received an 18/20 "Excellent" rating. In 2009 it won the James Beard Foundation Award for outstanding restaurant. In 2007, Jean-Georges' executive sous chef Lia Bardeen was featured as a contestant on season three of ''

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'', the cooking reality competition on the Bravo network. In 2010, Jean-Georges won the James Beard Award for "Outstanding Wine Service". In 2013, ''

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'' gave it a food rating of 28, the second-highest in the West 60s, and rated it the sixth-best restaurant in New York City. In December 2015 Jean-Georges was ranked number 3 in the United States and 51st in the world by

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; in the inaugural edition of the list of the 1,000 best restaurants in the world sanctioned by France's Foreign Ministry.

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