Yves Camdeborde

Yves Camdeborde was born in Pau in the department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques. He left school at the age of 14 to become a cooking assistant and continued his training course in Paris at the Hôtel Ritz, the restaurant La Tour d'Argent and the Hôtel de Crillon. He founded in 2005 his restaurant Le Comptoir du Relais Saint-Germain in Paris at the Quartier de l'Odéon. He is a chef specialized in bistro cuisine and is often named by journalists chef of the "bistronomy" (a portmanteau of words "bistro" and "gastronomy"). In addition of being a chef, he has been a member of the jury in the French version of MasterChef Greece (2010) for four seasons, and has also briefly portrayed himself in the French series Fais pas ci, fais pas ça (2007).