Biography of fernand point

Fernand Point (1897, Louhans, in Bresse in Saône-et-Loire, Burgundy, France – March 5, 1955) was a well-known French restaurateur in Vienne, a small city twenty miles south of Lyon, France, who for many years was the owner of La Pyramide^[1], considered by many to be the greatest restaurant in the world.

Although he died about twenty years before the introduction of what became called nouvelle cuisine, he is nevertheless considered to be the father of modern French cuisine because of the numerous great chefs that he influenced and trained: his insistence on absolutely fresh ingredients for dishes of regional background, his refusal to use the old-fashioned made-in-advance sauces of the "haute cuisine", and his quest for perfection in everything he served led, in 1933, his restaurant to be among the first to be given the ne