Gilles Epié is a French chef. He was the youngest chef to receive a Michelin Star, at the age of 22. He was the owner and Executive Chef of Citrus Etoile restaurant in Paris near the Champs-Elysées which he operated with his wife Elizabeth from 2005 to 2017. Currently, he is the Executive Chef of L'Avant-Garde, a modern French brasserie in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Career Born in Nantes, Gilles Epié started working at the age of 14 and trained with Alain Senderens and Alain Ducasse at Lucas-Carton in Paris. He received his first Michelin Star in 1980 at Le Pavillon des Princes, the youngest chef to receive the award at age 22. He worked as a chef at several French restaurants, including La Vieille Fontaine near Paris where he received a Michelin Star in 1983, his restaurant Le Miravile, where he was honored with a Michelin Star in 1986, and La Petite Cour in Saint-Germain-des-Pres, Paris. In 1995, he left France to explore U.S. cuisine. He worked as Head Chef of the French restaurant L'Orangerie, Los Angeles, where he introduced a Provençal-inspired style of cooking. Within a year he was voted Best Chef In America of 1996 by Food & Wine Magazine. He took the restaurant from empty tables to being booked months in advance, and brought the establishment from a three-star to a five-star restaurant within six months. Next, he bought and operated the Beverly Hills restaurant Chez Gilles along with partner Jean Denoyer. His clients have included actors, supermodels and politicians across the world. He has prepared dinners for U.S. presidents George Bush, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, and Donald Trump. He has also cooked for French Presidents François Mitterrand, Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy, Francois Holland and Emmanuel Macron, as well as the King of Sweden, Sheikh of Qatar, Frank Sinatra, Kirk Douglas, Bruce Springsteen, Slash, Al Pacino, Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro, Chris Tucker, Mick Jagger, Sharon Stone, Michel Polnareff, Gregory Peck, Richard Gere, Pierce Brosnan, Jennifer Lopez, Beyonce, Sophia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor, Princess Diana, Joan Severance, Zlatan Ibrahimović, Michael Jordan and many more. After 10 years in the United States, Epié returned to Paris after a location opened up near the Champs-Elysées. He opened Citrus Etoile restaurant in 2005 along with his wife. He named the restaurant in honor of his friend Chef Michel Richard and his Los Angeles restaurant, Citrus. To celebrate its launch,