Herve Frerard a Surorising French Chef in Thailand

There are no translations available.Herve Frerard is ageless. He is a kid with great knowledge.At times he seems about 8 years old. But others, he seems to have been living forever. Frerard is a kind of good-natured little devil unrelentingly itching to play new tricks but, at the same time, Frerard is a wise man, a man always conscious of the little of his knowledge. Frerard is both of these rolled into one. This interview allows us to learn more about the well-rounded chef who runs Le Beaulieu, Bangkok’s best French restaurant. However, fame isn’t his ultimate goal, but friendship. Tell me about your cooking career. Throughout my cooking career almost 20 years, I’ve been working in restaurants almost all the time. Just once, I worked in a hotel restaurant in Japan. But six months only.I never liked hotels; it’s not my style. Everything has to be perfect, stiff, but lifeless. I want to work in a place where I can communicate with my team and my clients. And you know what! Good French chefs don’t relocate that often in the past 20 years.Why?Everything is perfectly in its place; and there’s no reason to move. I’m afraid I’ll become like that one day. So I motivate myself by moving around all the time. I moved from my homeland and opened a French bistro in Ho Chi Minh, then a second branch. But both were closed down due to some personal problems. So I moved to Bangkok to open a French restaurant on Sukhumvit 20. It was again closed down due to Tom Yum Goong crisis in the 1990’s. I then moved to Heritage Club. It allowed me to move around... Read more...