World's top chef Benoit Violier dies at age 44


The world's top chefs, restaurateurs and food critics have been paying tribute to Benoit Violier, who was found dead at his home in Switzerland.

The 44-year-old's Swiss restaurant came top of the French La Liste ranking of the world's 1,000 best eateries.

La Liste expressed its sadness at the death of this "exceptional chef", who ran the Restaurant de l'Hotel de Ville in Crissier, near Lausanne.

Swiss police said the French-born chef appeared to have shot himself.

His death followed the loss last year of both his father and the man he regarded as a second father, chef and mentor Philippe Rochat, who died from a cycling injury in July.


SOURCE: BBC News