[3][4] In August 2023, Michel Roux Jr. announced that the restaurant would close at the end of its lease in January 2024, after over 56 years of business.

[citation needed] In 2008, Silvano Giraldin, Le Gavroche's General Manager, retired after 37 years working there.

[8] David Coulson, runner-up in the 2010 BBC series MasterChef: The Professionals, accepted an offer of employment from Michel Roux Jr during the final stages of the show and was to start work with Le Gavroche as chef de partie in January 2011.

[12] In August 2023, Michel Roux Jr announced that the restaurant would close at the end of its current lease in January 2024.

In 1982, after a move to the larger Upper Brook Street premises, it became the first restaurant in the UK to be awarded three stars.

It retained this rating until 1993 when it lost a star as the Chef Patron formally changed from Albert Roux to his son.