Stéphanie Le Quellec, born Lecocq[1] (born December 6, 1981, in Enghien-les-Bains, Île-de-France, France) is a 2-star chef.
She won season 2 of Top Chef on M6 in 2011. She is one of the rare female chefs to have received 2 stars from the Michelin guide.[2][3][4][5][6]
Biography
Stéphanie Lecocq grew up in Enghien-les-Bains[7] in a family who loved gastronomy.[8][9] She started cooking at age 7 or 8. After high school, she spent 5 years studying at the hospitality school Albert-de-Mun, in Paris. She earned her BTS degree at age 19.[10]
She began her career in 2001 at restaurant Le Cinq at the Four Seasons Hotel George V in Paris, where she also met her future husband David Le Quellec, another chef at the restaurant.[11] Later, they had 3 children (Baptiste, Maxime, and Arthur).[12] She became sous-chef under Eric Briffard in 2006.[13]
In 2013, she became head of the restaurant La Scène, in the 5-star hotel Prince de Galles, on the avenue George V in Paris and in 2014, she received her first Michelin star.[14] In March 2019, a few weeks after receiving her second Michelin star, she left the restaurant.[15][16]
On October 9, 2019, Le Quellec opened her own restaurant named on Matignon Street in Paris, called La Scène.[17] On January 27, 2020, her new restaurant received two Michelin stars.
Le Quellec has made several television appearances. In 2011, she was on Season 2 of Top Chef on French television channel M6. In 2017, she was in the short film Ma Mère cuisine mieux que la tienne ! ("My Mom is a Better Cook Than Yours!") on M6.[9]
