{"id":33,"date":"2009-05-07T12:05:44","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T12:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2009-05-07T12:08:13","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T12:08:13","slug":"michelin-starred-restaurant-goes-bankrupt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/michelin-starred-restaurant-goes-bankrupt\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelin-starred restaurant goes bankrupt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;La Reserve&#8221;, the lushly praised (and lushly expensive) restaurant shepherded to Michelin stardom by Finnish chef, <span class=\"Legende_Photo\">Jouni Tormanen, is in bankruptcy proceedings. Despite an unbeatable location overlooking the sea, the two-tier restaurant was hit hard by the recent economic crisis despite having opened a lower-priced &#8220;bistro&#8221; on the ground floor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Legende_Photo\">On a recent visit, we found the &#8220;gastronomic&#8221; restaurant upstairs was closed for the winter, probably in an effort to cut the massive overhead that running this establishment entailed. Although the \u20ac25 two-course lunch was not expensive, the portions were miniscule, like a parody of nouvelle cuisine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Legende_Photo\">Celeb-chef Jouni has left the scene pending appeal but the restaurant remains open. The current holding company is presenting a new prix-fixe menu running from \u20ac30 to \u20ac65. Perhaps the new management will push up the calorie count over the &#8216;lean cuisine&#8217; level?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Legende_Photo\">See more on<a href=\"http:\/\/www.frenchrivieratraveller.com\/Nice\/Restaurants.htm\"> restaurants in Nice. <\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;La Reserve&#8221;, the lushly praised (and lushly expensive) restaurant shepherded to Michelin stardom by Finnish chef, Jouni Tormanen, is in bankruptcy proceedings. Despite an unbeatable location overlooking the sea, the two-tier restaurant was hit hard by the recent economic crisis despite having opened a lower-priced &#8220;bistro&#8221; on the ground floor. <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/michelin-starred-restaurant-goes-bankrupt\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nice","category-nice-restaurants","category-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}