{{Short description|French chef}} {{Infobox chef | name = Michel Portos | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{b-da|4 April 1963}} | birth_place = Marseille, France | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = | style = | education = | ratings = Michelin stars {{Michelinstar gif|2}} | restaurants = {{plainlist| *''La Malthazar'' (Marseille) *''Le Poulpe'' (Marseille) }} | prevrests = {{plainlist| *''Côté Théâtre'' (Perpignan) *''Le Saint-James'' (Bouliac) }} | television = | website = {{URL|www.malthazar.com}}<br/>{{URL|www.lepoulpe-marseille.com}} }} '''Michel Portos''' (born 4 April 1963) is a French chef, two stars at the Guide Michelin.
== Early life and education == Miche Portos was born in Marseille,<ref name="HR">{{Cite web |url=http://www.lhotellerie-restauration.fr/journal/restauration/2009-04/Michelin-2009-La-deuxieme-etoile-liberatrice-de-Michel-Portos.htm |title=Michelin 2009 : La deuxième étoile libératrice de Michel Portos |publisher=L'Hôtellerie Restauration |date=20 April 2009 |accessdate=5 March 2016 |language=fr}}</ref> the son of an accountant father and a shopkeeper mother. He became passionated by cooking since his childhood from his mother who, despite a busy timetable, alwayes used to prepare him dishes.<ref name="Elle">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.elle.fr/Personnalites/Michel-Portos |title=Michel Portos |magazine=Elle |accessdate=5 March 2016 |language=fr}}</ref> However, he first managed a career as a diver or a biker at the Gendarmerie Nationale.<ref name="Elle"/> Despite the advice of his father who assigned him a career in accountancy or commerce, Michel Portos finally decided to fully dedicate himself on cooking. After obtaining his high school final exam, he started a training course at the hotel high school of Marseille and graduated with a CAP (Certificat d'Aptitude Professionnelle) in cooking in 1983.
== Career == Michel Portos began his career with internships in restaurants of the Bordeaux region, first at the ''Chapon Fin'' and then in 1986 at the ''Rouzic'' with the Michelin starred chef Michel Gautier. In 1989, he continued his training course in Toulouse at the restaurant ''Les Jardins de l'Opéra''.<ref name="HR"/> It is in Roanne at the restaurant of the frères Troisgros that he will be trained to become a sous-chef for five years.<ref name="HR"/> In 1998, he founded his first restaurant ''Coté Théâtre'' in Perpignan, which obtained one star at the Guide Michelin in 2001.<ref name="HR"/><ref name="LePoint">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.lepoint.fr/culture/michel-portos-chef-etoile-qui-cultive-la-simplicite-a-marseille-03-01-2014-1776509_3.php |title=Michel Portos, chef étoilé qui cultive la simplicité à Marseille |magazine=Le Point |date=3 January 2014 |accessdate=5 March 2016 |language=fr}}</ref> He became in 2002 the chef of the hotel-restaurant ''Le Saint-James'' in Bouliac, where he permitted the establishment to obtain its second Michelin star in 2009.<ref name="Elle"/> Michel Portos was named "Cuisinier de l'année" in 2012 by the Gault Millau.<ref name="LePoint"/><ref name="Elle2">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.elle.fr/Elle-a-Table/Les-dossiers-de-la-redaction/News-de-la-redaction/Le-chef-marseillais-Michel-Portos-elu-cuisinier-de-l-annee-1793372 |title=Le chef marseillais Michel Portos élu cuisinier de l'année |magazine=Elle |date=7 April 2011 |accessdate=5 March 2016 |language=fr}}</ref> The same year, he left the Bordeaux region and ''Le Saint-James'' to establish in Marseille, where he founded his second restaurant ''Le Malthazar''.<ref name="Elle"/><ref name="LePoint"/> He founded in 2014 a second restaurant in Marseille named ''Le Poulpe'', located at the Old Port.<ref name="LePoint"/>
== See also == *List of Michelin starred restaurants
== References == {{Reflist|2}}
== External links == * [http://www.malthazar.com Official site of the restaurant Le Malthazar] * [http://www.lepoulpe-marseille.com/ Official site of the restaurant Le Poulpe]
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