Anne-Sophie Pic

Anne-Sophie Pic (, born 12 July 1969) is a French chef best known for regaining the third Michelin star for her restaurant Maison Pic, in southeast France. She is the fourth female chef to win three Michelin stars, and was named the Best Female Chef by The World's 50 Best Restaurants in 2011. She currently holds 10 Michelin stars, the most for any female chef.

Biography Anne-Sophie Pic was born in Valence, Drôme, in France on 12 July 1969. She is the daughter of chef Jacques Pic, and grew up at her family's restaurant, Maison Pic. Her grandfather, Andre Pic, was also a chef, who was particularly known for a crayfish gratin dish, She worked in Japan and the United States as an intern for various companies, including Cartier and Moët & Chandon, In September 2012, she opened her first Paris-based restaurant, La Dame de Pic.

In 2015 and 2016, Pic was a member of the Prix Versailles judges panel.

In 2017, Pic opened her first London restaurant, also called La Dame de Pic, in the Four Seasons Hotel at 10 Trinity Square in the City of London. It was awarded a Michelin star within less than a year of opening for the 2018 Michelin Guide. A second star followed for the 2020 Guide, and both have been retained since.

In 2018, she appeared as a judge on the "France" episode and in the finale of The Final Table, season 1. In the same year she was profiled in Maya Gallus's documentary film The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution.

In 2019, she opened a restaurant, also under the name La Dame de Pic, in the Raffles Hotel in Singapore. It was awarded one Michelin star in the 2022 Guide. The restaurant closed in 2024.

In June 2020, she and other chefs, as well as architects, Nobel laureates in Economics and leaders of international organizations, signed the appeal in favour of the purple economy ("Towards a cultural renaissance of the economy"), published in Corriere della Sera, El País and Le Monde.

At the end of 2020, she opened another restaurant called La Dame de Pic - Le 1920 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Megève, France. It was awarded its first Michelin star in the 2022 Guide.

In summer 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, she launched a food truck in Valence called Pic-up, featuring her first time offering hamburgers. London, La Dame de Pic (2019–2024) Awards In 2011, she received the Veuve Clicquot World's Best Female Chef award, named after Madame Clicquot Ponsardin and given by the World's 50 Best Restaurants awards scheme from British magazine Restaurant. It was the first time the category had been awarded, and it was thought to have been closely fought between Pic, Elena Arzak and Nadia Santini. At the time of the award, Pic was the only three Michelin starred female chef in France.

On 14 July 2011, she was named a Chevalier (Knight) of the French Legion of Honour.

In 2009, Pic received the Eckart Witzigmann Award for excellent culinary art.