Fame isn’t everything… The proof: Johnny Depp was refused entry to a restaurant run by a chef who is very popular with the general public.
Even Johnny Depp can be refused entry to a restaurant while being a huge Hollywood star… This is in any case what the famous starred chef, Hélène Darroze, explained, invited to the microphone of Stéphane Rotenberg this August 13, 2024 on RTL. The chef, from the South-West, had just opened one of her first restaurants in Paris. An establishment that very quickly filled up, even for the actor of Pirates of the Caribbean.
Why was Johnny Depp refused from his restaurant?
The famous juror of Top Chef told an anecdote from the early 2000s on the show It’s going to cause trouble, by Stéphane Rotenberg. At that time, she opened a restaurant in Paris, which quickly became popular with gourmets. In her team, Hélène Darroze then placed her trust in a young woman who worked alongside her in the South-West, in her father’s restaurant.
“One Saturday afternoon, she saw Johnny Depp arrive at reception to reserve a table for four. Thinking she was doing the right thing and without telling me, she said to Johnny Depp: ‘We’re sorry, but we can’t take you’.” The chef tells Stéphane Rotenberg that when it is full “we can push the walls” for the interpreter of Jack Sparrow.I assure you we would have found the place!”she added.
A huge regret…
The young woman, who thought she was doing the right thing by respecting the restaurant’s reservation book, then rushed to tell Hélène Darroze that she had refused the actor. A mistake that angered the starred chef, who saw a golden opportunity pass under her nose. Having Johnny Depp at your table, at least at that time, meant giving yourself a meeting with a huge star but also a nice spotlight on your establishment…
But it seems that the hostess has found a solution: “She said to me: ‘Don’t worry, he has reserved a table for Tuesday night.’ We were closed on Sunday and Monday, always for ‘four covers’,” she explained to RTL. But fate seemed opposed to the actor’s arrival. “On Tuesday night, he never came because on Tuesday morning, Vanessa Paradis was going to give birth to their little boy, so I never saw Johnny Depp again…”
