Marc Veyrat

Marc Veyrat (born 8 May 1950) is a French chef from the Haute-Savoie region, who specialises in molecular gastronomy and the use of mountain plants and herbs.

Veyrat has obtained a total of nine Michelin Stars and is the first cook to get the perfect grade of 20/20 in the Gault et Millau guide for each of his two first restaurants.

[1][2] On 24 February 2009, he announced that he would cease all of his activities at la Maison de Marc Veyrat due to his declining health.

In December 2015, Veyrat was fined €100,000 by a French court after illegally cutting down 7,000 sq metres of protected forest near one of his restaurants.

[6][7] However, the judges held that "the independence of the evaluation constitutes the liberty of expression of the guide's inspectors,"[8] and ordered him to pay the court costs.