The pair were described as the "godfathers of modern restaurant cuisine in the UK" and Roux was inducted into several French orders, and received two lifetime achievement awards from different publications.

He founded the Roux Brothers Scholarship along with Albert in 1984, and worked as a consultant for companies such as British Airways and Celebrity Cruises over the years.

[1] Michel Roux was born on 19 April 1941 in Charolles, Saône-et-Loire, in a room above his grandfather's charcuterie[2] (a delicatessen specializing in meat products).

Roux's tasks at the pâtisserie included making up to sixty galettes des rois over the course of three days for Epiphany.

[4] Roux nearly decided to give up cooking to become an opera singer,[5] but instead followed Albert to London, despite not being able to speak English.

He would later recall that people thought he was mad for travelling there as he considered the state of English cooking at the time to be horrific.

Le Gavroche moved to a new location in Mayfair in 1982, and in the same year became the first restaurant in the UK to be awarded three Michelin stars.

[7][12] In July 2008, Roux announced that he would move permanently to Crans-Montana, Switzerland, citing concerns about the state of public safety in Britain.

[13] Since 2014, Roux worked with British baking company, Bakedin, as a consultant reviewing and approving all recipes.

[17] The Good Food channel aired a five-part series entitled The Roux Legacy in January 2012, which featured both brothers, along with their sons Michel Jr. and Alain.

Alain would visit during the school holidays and work with Michel in the kitchens, and decided at the age of fourteen that he wanted to become a chef like his father.

[5] Roux met his second wife (1984–2017)[25] Robyn Joyce, after being set up on a blind date with her by former apprentice Leigh Stone-Herbert in Sydney, Australia.

[22] Michel Roux died on the night of 11 March 2020, at home in Bray, Berkshire, aged 78, following a history of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.