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Trained at the Roux brothers’ London restaurant Le Gavroche in the early 1980s before setting off on his travels with Canadian wife Jeanne. Paul and Jeanne met in Greece while he was backpacking round the world and after a spell working in Canada the pair returned to Belfast to set up their restaurant Roscoff in 1984.Paul Rankin changed the face of culinary Northern Ireland when he opened Roscoff, the restaurant that was to become the first to win a Michelin Star in the country.
Soon after opening, it became the favourite meeting place for the Belfast business and arts community, and people travelled from Dublin simply to experience what was considered to be the best cooking in Northern Ireland at the time.
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In September 2005 Jeanne publicly acknowledged that she had been heavily dependent upon morphine and other prescription drugs for the previous seven years, following an accident, falling from a horse, and had sought help in rehabilitation.
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Roscoff closed several years ago but the couple now run Cayenne and the influence of Paul and Jeanne Rankin on Irish cuisine continues today. Many of the chefs in restaurants in Belfast and the rest of Northern Ireland having started their careers in the kitchen of Roscoff.
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