Les Grandes Tables du Monde celebrates its 60th anniversary with the election of its new president, David Sinapian of Maison Pic in Valence, to succeed Marc Haeberlin of Auberge de l’Ill in Illhausern. <\/p>\n
1954, six Parisian restaurateurs and friends decided to join forces to defend the values of fine dining and the art of living.
\nThey were Jean Barnagaud (Prunier), Andr\u00e9 Vrinat (Taillevent), Ren\u00e9 Lasserre (Restaurant Lasserre), Claude Terrail (La Tour d’Argent), Raymond Oliver (Le Grand V\u00e9four), Louis Vaudable (Maxim’s), and the “Traditions et Qualit\u00e9” association was born, later to become “Les Grandes Tables du Monde”. The circle widened with the arrival of colleagues from the provinces, and in 1960 it opened up to the rest of the world. The association took as its emblem a rooster drawn by Jean Cocteau on the tablecloth of the Au Grand V\u00e9four restaurant, a rooster that now illustrates all the association’s publications and is now associated with Haute Restauration. Jean Cocteau’s “touch” can be found in a famous phrase: “Tradition is a perpetual movement. It moves forward, it changes, it lives”, a phrase the members of the board are fond of quoting. Indeed, it is put into practice on a daily basis through the commitment of all these chefs to the transmission of know-how and the art of entertaining, and remains a skilful blend of innovation and tradition.
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