Restaurants and Operations
Alain Ducasse's restaurants, cooking schools, cookbooks, and consulting activities had revenues of $15.9 million in 2002. Since that time, Ducasse has been expanding his reach. Alain Ducasse has also opened a cooking school for the general public in Paris and another for chefs (ADF), which also works for the European Space Agency to develop astronaut meals to be taken into space. Ducasse has also authored numerous books, with the most famous being Alain Ducasse Culinary Encyclopedia.
In 2005, Ducasse opened his first Asian restaurant in Tokyo, Japan. Ducasse's restaurants include:
- 59 Poincaré (Paris, France)
- Adour (New York, USA) - Closed 17th November 2012
- Adour (St. Regis, Washington D.C., USA)
- Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester (London)
- Aux Lyonnais (Paris, France)
- Bar & Boeuf (Monaco)
- Be (BoulangEpicerie)
- Beige (Tokyo, Japan)
- Benoit (Paris, France) - bistro
- Benoit (Tokyo, Japan) - bistro
- Benoit (New York, USA) - bistro
- Esprit - bistro
- La Cour Jardin (Paris, France)
- Mix (Las Vegas, USA)
- La Terrasse du Parc
- Le Rech
- Le Louis XV (Monaco)
- Le Relais du Parc (Paris, France)
- Le Relais Palza (Paris, France)
- La Bastide de Moustier (Moustier Ste Marie, France)
- Tamaris (Beirut, Lebanon)
- Spoon (Paris, Saint-Tropez, Beirut, Carthago, Gstaadt, Mauritius, Hong-Kong)
- Trattoria Toscana (Castiglione della Pescaia, Italy)
- Alain Ducasse opens new Caribbean project in 2010
In 2004 Alain Ducasse opened a restaurant in a resort near Biarritz, in the French Basque Country. However, after several bombing attacks by Irrintzi, an armed Basque nationalist organization, which accused him of being a speculator and of "folkloring" the Basque Country, Ducasse decided to leave the Basque Country.
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