How many michelin stars does martín berasategui have

Professional Career

At present, he boasts 11 Michelin Stars: 3 in the Martín Berasategui Restaurant in Lasarte-Oria; 3 in the Lasarte Restaurant in Barcelona; 2 in the M.B. Restaurant in Tenerife, 1 in the Oria Restaurant in Barcelona, 1 in Restaurant Ola Martín Berasategui in Bilbao and  1 in the Etxeko Ibiza Restaurant.

Furthermore, he is top of the list in the Repsol Guide with 12 Suns.

His career is peppered with prestigious prizes and awards, such as the Golden Drum of San Sebastián in 2005, the Honorary Doctorate awarded to him in 2013 by the François Rabelais University of Tours  (France) and  in 2019 the Gold Medal for "Mérito en Bellas Artes " by the Ministry of Culture and Sports of Spain, among many other awards and recognitions.

 Martin has recently been awarded "Chef Mentor" by Michelin Guide Spain & Portugal 2022 and his famous expression "GARROTE" has been added to the dictionary of  RAE (Spanish Roya

Martín Berasategui

Spanish chef

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Berasategui and the second or maternal family name is Olazábal.

Martín Berasategui

Berasategui in 2010

Born

Martín Berasategui Olazábal


(1960-04-27) 27 April 1960 (age 64)

San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain

Culinary career

Current restaurant(s)

    • Restaurante Martín Berasategui
    • Restaraunte Lasarte
    • M.B.
Websitewww.martinberasategui.com

Martín Berasategui Olazábal is a Spanish chef expert in Basque cuisine and owner of an eponymous restaurant in Lasarte-Oria (Gipuzkoa), Spain. Since 2001 it has been awarded three Michelin stars. He holds twelve stars in total, more than any other Spanish chef.[1]

Biography

At the age of 14, Berasategui began to work in his parents' restaurant, Bodegón Alejandro.[2] When Berasategui began his culinary career, there were no Michelin star restaurants in the Basque Country.[1] He was sent to France to train as a pastry chef when he was 17.

Martin Berasategi “The master of the Michelin stars”

Martín Berasategui Olazábal (San Sebastian, 27 April 1960) is a Basque chef with seven Michelin stars.

Martin Berasategui Olazábal was born on 27 April 1960 in San Sebastian. He studied at Padres Capuchinos School in Lekaroz, Baztan Valley (Navarre). At the age of thirteen he started working in the family restaurant, Bodegón Alejandro.

In 1979, he began to study catering at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Pâtisserie of Yssingeaux, where he met various international chefs. In 1981 he took charge of Bodegón Alejandro, which received its first Michelin star in 1986. In 1993 he opened his first restaurant, called “Martín Berasategui”, in Lasarte-Oria.

In three years the restaurant received two Michelin stars. Since then, the chef has received various awards, such as the Basque Gastronomy Prize to the Best Chef of the Basque Country in 1998 and the Gold Drum of San Sebastian in 2005. In 1996, the chef decided to create a business association, the Martin Berasategui Group, to take charge of restaurants such as Bode

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