Despite being one of the world’s most celebrated chefs, Marco Pierre White currently holds zero Michelin stars – because he handed them all back in 1999. Does Jose Andres have a Michelin star? Chef José Andrés Andrés is the only chef globally that has both a two-star Michelin restaurant and four Bib Gourmands. He points out that Alain Passard, who has three Michelin stars at L’Arpège in Paris, took animal products off his menu 20 years ago but has since reintroduced them. Marco Pierre White’s Marco Pierre White was born in Leeds in 1961 and left home at age 16 to get classical training as commis at the renowned Le Gavroche in London. He worked his way up through the ranks, and in 1987 opened his first restaurant, Harveys, in the capital's Wandsworth neighborhood. He followed that up with The Restaurant Marco Pierre White in 1993 "A home not a hotel" is how Marco Pierre White looks upon the Rudloe Arms, a Victorian building that has been a hotel since 1961. The former three Michelin Star-holder may no longer be a hands He was the youngest chef to earn three Michelin stars in 1995, at the age of 33. His restaurant closed in 1999, the year he became known as the “culinary sensation.” During a demonstration, Pierre White claims, Gordon Ramsay made him cry. Marco Pierre White was a student of well-known chef Pierre White when he began his career. At 33, he became the youngest chef to be awarded three Michelin stars (he won his first two aged 28 and, at the time, he was the youngest chef also to achieve such an accolade). White is Scottish on his father's side, and his mother, who died when he was a child, was Italian. Few names hold reverence like Marco Pierre White. The legend who you might know from Hell’s Kitchen and guest appearances on MasterChef Australia was not only the youngest chef to be awarded three Michelin stars back when he was 33, but he was also audacious enough to later return them, claiming ‘he was being judged by people with less knowledge than him. 69823278 Often dubbed ‘the godfather of modern cooking’ and the first celebrity chef among his peers, British chef, restaurateur and television person. This is far from the first time that a chef or restaurateur has said no to Michelin: White himself handed back all of his stars in 1999, including those from Restaurant Marco Pierre White (later Marco Pierre White grafted his way to three Michelin stardom by concentrating on the cooking, yet his rock-god persona has kept him in the headlines for 25 years. He is the chef who fascinates 3k4oMMP.