Benoît Violier
- Birth Date:
- 22.08.1971
- Death date:
- 31.01.2016
- Length of life:
- 44
- Days since birth:
- 19646
- Years since birth:
- 53
- Days since death:
- 3412
- Years since death:
- 9
- Extra names:
- Benuā Violjē
- Categories:
- Cook
- Nationality:
- french, swiss
- Cemetery:
- Set cemetery
Benoît Violier (22 August 1971 – 31 January 2016) was a French-Swiss chef who had owned the three Michelin star Restaurant de l'Hotel de Ville since 2012. The eatery topped the first La Liste in December 2015.
Born in Saintes, Charente-Maritime, France, Violier moved to Switzerland in 1996 to work with Philippe Rochat. Upon Rochat's retirement in 2012, Violier began running the restaurant. He applied for Swiss citizenship in 2014. Violier died at home in Crissier, Switzerland, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on 31 January 2016, aged 44.
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