The Waterside Inn in Bray is the cousin of Michel Roux Jr, the chef-patron of Le Gavroche, the Mayfair restaurant founded by Alain’s father Michel and uncle Albert in 1967.
The brothers opened The Waterside Inn in 1972 and, when they separated their business interests 14 years later, Albert kept Le Gavroche and Michel The Waterside.The Roux, then, are the royal family of British restaurants, with the line of succession assured by Michel Jr’s daughter Emily at her restaurant Caractère in Notting Hill.
But like so many families, they have experienced terrible losses over the past year. Michel Sr died in March 2020, a week before the first lockdown was announced; Albert passed away the following January.
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