Pierre Gagnaire is a well known French chef, and is the Head Chef and owner of the eponymous Pierre Gagnaire restaurant at 6 rue Balzac in Paris

Paris

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 (in the 8th arrondissement). Gagnaire is an iconoclastic chef at the forefront of the fusion cuisine

Fusion cuisine

Fusion cuisine combines elements of various culinary traditions while not being categorized per any one particular cuisine style, and can pertain to innovations in many contemporary restaurant cuisines since the 1970s.-Categories and types:...

 movement. Beginning his career in St. Etienne where he won three Michelin Stars

Michelin Guide

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, Gagnaire tore at the conventions of classic French cooking by introducing jarring juxtapositions of flavours, tastes, textures, and ingredients.
On his website Pierre Gagnaire gives his mission statement

Mission statement

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 as the wish to run a restaurant which is 'facing tomorrow but respectful of yesterday' ("tourné vers demain mais soucieux d'hier").
The restaurant specializes in modern French cuisine

French cuisine

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, and has garnered three Michelin

Michelin Guide

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 stars.