Michel Portos

Michel Portos (born 4 April 1963) is a French chef, two stars at the Guide Michelin.

Early life and education Miche Portos was born in Marseille, the son of an accountant father and a shopkeeper mother. He became passionated by cooking since his childhood from his mother who, despite a busy timetable, alwayes used to prepare him dishes. However, he first managed a career as a diver or a biker at the Gendarmerie Nationale. He became in 2002 the chef of the hotel-restaurant Le Saint-James in Bouliac, where he permitted the establishment to obtain its second Michelin star in 2009. The same year, he left the Bordeaux region and Le Saint-James to establish in Marseille, where he founded his second restaurant Le Malthazar. He founded in 2014 a second restaurant in Marseille named Le Poulpe, located at the Old Port.