{"id":28667,"date":"2026-11-02T10:29:34","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T09:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/non-categorise\/mathieu-crozes-royal-hare\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T10:29:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T09:29:34","slug":"mathieu-crozes-royal-hare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/food-news\/mathieu-crozes-royal-hare\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathieu Croze&#8217;s Royal Hare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019ll still have to wait until 2027 to return to the tables at Le Chat-Bott\u00e9, but its chef clearly has no intention of staying out of the spotlight. On October 24, Mathieu Croze claimed the title of world champion in Li\u00e8vre \u00e0 la royale in Romorantin-Lanthenay, France. And as if that weren\u2019t enough, he also took home the Press Prize.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shredded Hare<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Competing against eight other contestants before a jury chaired by two-Michelin-starred chef Christophe Bacqui\u00e9, Mathieu Croze presented his take on this great classic of French cuisine. The dish, in which the sauce plays a central role, was served with braised cabbage topped with shredded hare, foie gras, and porcini mushrooms\u2014the latter of which were required ingredients for the competition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the helm of the kitchens at Le Chat-Bott\u00e9 since September 2023, the French chef\u2014who has made Geneva his home\u2014is now taking on a new challenge: shaping the restaurant\u2019s new culinary identity at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beau-rivage.com\/fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><strong>Beau-Rivage<\/strong><\/a>, which is set to reopen in 2027. While we wait to see his dishes back in Geneva, here\u2019s an accolade that certainly doesn\u2019t lack panache.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le Chat-Bott\u00e9 is still undergoing renovations, but its chef didn\u2019t wait for the restaurant to reopen to make headlines. Mathieu Croze has just won the world championship for Li\u00e8vre \u00e0 la royale, as well as the Press Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":28668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"slim_seo":{"title":"Mathieu Croze's Royal Hare | Restaurant Geneva | Edouard Amoiel","description":"Le Chat-Bott\u00e9 is still undergoing renovations, but its chef didn\u2019t wait for the restaurant to reopen to make headlines. Mathieu Croze has just won the world cha"},"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_restaurants-par-lieux":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_style-de-restaurant":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[351],"tags":[],"restaurants-par-lieux":[353],"style-de-restaurant":[],"class_list":["post-28667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-news","restaurants-par-lieux-geneva"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28667"},{"taxonomy":"restaurants-par-lieux","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/restaurants-par-lieux?post=28667"},{"taxonomy":"style-de-restaurant","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/style-de-restaurant?post=28667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}