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10 Thoughts from Laurent Gras

10 Thoughts from Laurent Gras

  1. One thing you don't know about me is that I like to dance.

  2. I'm most proud of my family.

  3. One of my most memorable meals was at Kaeisiki in a ryokan (a traditional Japanese inn) in Kyoto, Japan.

  4. If there was no olive oil, I'd have no reason to live.

  5. My go-to drink is a single espresso.

  6. If I were on death row my last meal would be … I won't think about this, I prefer to think of life.

  7. The thing I hate most about this business is critics.

  8. If I could change one thing about me it would be to take 25 years of kitchen work off of my hands.

  9. My idea of a perfect day is riding my bike, then going to the beach and dinner with my wife.

  10. If I wasn't a restaurant operator, I'd love to be a photographer.

Chef Laurent Gras and Richard Melman have teamed up to open L2O, a modern seafood restaurant in Chicago. Esquire named it Restaurant of the Year in 2008.

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