Beyoncé and Jay-Z, Marion Cotillard and Leila Bechty, Robert De Niro and Margot Robbie… It’s been a few years since celebrities have been immortalized in the neighborhood of the French chef, which has been renamed “chef to the stars”.
As Paris rocked to Paris Fashion Week on Avenue Montaigne this Tuesday, September 24, Beyoncé celebrated the launch of her whiskey brand, Sir Davis, in style. Loyal to Jean Imbert’s kitchen for several years, the 43-year-old singer naturally chose Plaza Athénée in Paris, where the chef works, to organize the dinner. Tradition dictates that she, who is used to a Parisian palace, is posed in the kitchen, next to the chef and his team, wearing a golden evening dress with a plunging neckline. No surprise to the chef’s approximately 551,000 Instagram followers, who are used to his photos with celebrities.
Since his first appearance on the small screen in 2012, then-Big Chef winner Jean Imbert has had a meteoric rise. Having signed a menu of the most famous restaurants on Instagram, from Restaurant Jean Imbert in Plaza Athénée to La Palme d’Or in Cannes, including the legendary Orient-Express and Maison Dior, his addresses are frequented by the French elite. like Hollywood. Companies that he has acquired the habit of sharing on social networks, revealing images.
“Chef to the Stars”
Jean Imbert owes his success on the Hollywood scene to his kitchen, but also to the photographer JR, who happened to dine at L’Acajou, his first Parisian address, which became Mamie in 2019, before closing its doors in June 2021. : The match is changing. in friendship, but also opening up to the American network of an artist specializing in giant photo collages. The machine has been launched, Jean Imbert is the new trendy chef. Pharrell Williams, Matthew McConaughey, Robert De Niro, Dua Lipa, Cara Delevingne, Bella Hadid… One by one, celebrities pass through the door of his restaurant and fall under the spell of his French cuisine, although critics shy away. Madonna loves her beetroot toast, Pharrell Williams for his Caesar salad, Beyonce for her radish tomato water. These meetings also spawned collaborations such as the opening of two Pharrell Williams addresses, Swan in Miami and To Share in Saint-Tropez. But also friendships, like with Beyoncé, whom he describes as “important” on the set of “C à Vous” on December 14, 2023.
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“QHe’s not a cook, he’s a chef.”
The Val-de-Marne chef rejects the “celebrity friend” label. In January 2018, she posted a photo of herself and rapper Drake in Los Angeles on an Instagram story, with the message protesting this new status: “Some people will still say ‘Chef to the Stars,’ blahblah…m 3 days in LA, I spend 12 to 14 hours a day in the kitchen with the teams, I only meet these people through cooking, otherwise never. When they come to Paris for a concert, I take care of them and do future restaurants with them… So it’s not a “chef to the stars”, it’s not a chef either. Besides, he’s a cook.” Six years later, the nickname sticks to him, but Jean Imbert is still proving himself in the small world of gastronomy. In March 2022, the eponymous chef won the first star for his restaurant at Plaza Athénée. The story of a chef in tune with the times.
Source: Le Figaro
