Meet Christophe Guillou - Christophe Guillou

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Christophe Guillou is a French born Head Chef. He has worked in some of the best Michelin restaurants in France and London for world renowned Chefs, which has taken him on a worldwide, life long journey of culinary mastery and flavour discovery.

He hails from Brittany, a French province and coastal town bordering the English Channel where fresh local produce from land and sea are always abundant. Growing up with a chef father instilled a love of food and cooking inspired Christophe to follow in his fathers footsteps. Spending many hours in restaurant kitchens from a young age he always knew he would pursue culinary school graduating from Culinary Institute College St Marc.

Christophe started his career as a chef at the Sofitel in France, under the big bridgade structure. He quickly learned about working under a clear chain of command, team work and accountability. Christophe went on to work at St James Court Hotel in London – a Michelin star restaurant and cooking for people like John Major, Sean Connery and many other celebrities. His journey then took him to L’Orangerie working for Gordon Ramsey, then L’Aubergine during a booming 90s restaurant scene. In 1999 the Park Hyatt offered Christophe a sponsorship to move to Sydney. Christophe then fell in love with the Sunshine Coast, Queensland where he has called home for the last 20 years.

Since residing on the Sunshine Coast, Christophe has some of the best fine dining restaurants, operated his own restaurant and earned a Australian Good Food guide hat on two separate occasions. The first being at the 4th Floor Restaurant and most recently in 2023 at The Spice Bar, Mooloolaba. Christophe brings his heritage and expertise in sourcing the best local produce at the optimum price, from farm to plate- using organic ingredients whenever possible, but always fresh and seasonal.He has resided in Australia for 2 decades now, and has continued to develop his unique, world class intellectual property as a commercial chef at a Michelin Standard- for the delight of Sunshine Coast locals and tourists from around the globe.