Louis Vaudable


Louis Jules Annet Vaudable was a French restaurateur, known for having been the owner of the most famous restaurant in the world, Maxim's.
He was the son of Octave Vaudable, a restaurateur from Auvergne and owner of the restaurant Noël Peters, who bought Maxim's in 1932. With three generations of restaurateurs, the Vaudable family is one of the most important figures in the restaurant business.
After graduating from HEC Paris in 1923, Louis interned in hotels throughout Europe and the US like Hôtel Esplanade in Berlin or Hôtel Bristol in Vienna before studying Haute Cuisine for three years.
Thanks to its quality of food and service, Maxim's, during the Vaudable era, was considered the best restaurant in the world and world-wide celebrities from Brigitte Bardot to Aristotle Onassis would make it their restaurant of choice.
Louis Vaudable's son, François, who assisted his father for years, sold Maxim's to Pierre Cardin in 1981.
François Vaudable now lives in Paris and is married to an American. He has two daughters: Carole and Christina.
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