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Michel Roux also known as Michel Roux Snr., was a French chef and restaurateur working in Britain.

Roux together with his brother Albert, opened Le Gavroche, which went on to become the first three Michelin starred restaurant in Britain, and The Waterside Inn, which was the first restaurant outside France to hold three stars for 25 years.

Roux followed his brother into becoming a pastry chef, and again to England in order to open their first restaurant and together, they have been described as the “godfathers of modern restaurant cuisine in the UK”.

Roux was inducted into several French orders, and received two lifetime achievement awards from different publications. He was decorated during a period of National Service for France during the 1960s.

Roux 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.

After he and his brother split the business in 1986, Roux took the Waterside Inn, which he handed over to his son, Alain, in 2002.

Roux remained an active food writer and appeared on television shows such as Saturday Kitchen, MasterChef and the Roux family-centric series The Roux Legacy, and on the Woman’s Hour programme on BBC Radio 4.

Roux was born on 19 April 1941 and died on 11 March 2020 aged 78.