GaultMillau drops St. Maarten
July 2, 2008
The famous and controversial restaurant guide, GaultMillau will no longer be inspecting St. Maarten restaurants the organization announced in a press release.
The reason for dropping St. Maarten was because the St. Maarten Tourist Bureau decided not to continue the cooperation. GaultMillau is “one of the most influential French restaurant guides, most famous for its rating system, on a scale of 1 to 20.” GaultMillau never list restaurants lower than ten points, and it awards these points based on the quality of the food, service, price and atmosphere.
GaultMillau started rating restaurants on the island three years ago at the invitation of the St. Maarten Tourist Bureau. Local restaurants got high exposure in the internationally acclaimed guide. The guide described St. Maarten / Saint Martin as the “Caribbean’s gastronomy center”, which attracted many tourists who were interested in good food, wine, life-style, culture and art. However, the island would not be included in the 2009 edition because the cooperation was decided to be discontinued.
“Without the cooperation with the St. Maarten Tourist Bureau and other official institutions in St. Maarten and in the Netherlands, continuation of GaultMillau St. Maarten project is not viable,” the company states.
The guide had become a controversy when in February 2003, a prominent French chef had committed suicide after his restaurant was downgraded from a 19 to a 17 by GaultMillau.
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