Addicted to series about vampires and zombies, he knows everything about your favorite stars, with a slight preference for what happens across the Atlantic. Although he has the hot blood of the Spanish, he still maintains his very French humor and never shrinks from a well-intentioned play on words.
Omnipresent on French television for years, Franz-Olivier Giesbert is the father of Alexandre Giesbert, an ambitious entrepreneur. “Paris Match” looked at the career of the man who owns one of the most popular bars of the moment.
Franz-Olivier Giesbert: His son Alexandre is a talented businessman at the head of one of the best bars in the world
Both a political journalist, columnist, television presenter and writer, he is a well-known French personality, who frequently appears on television. Director of editors of Figarobut also Pointhe is today an editorialist for The Point. Friend of the greatest, he had established real links with the late. On the set of C to youa few years ago, he spoke alongside the former president of Olympique de Marseille. “He was in pain and what was incredible when he was in pain was that, from time to time, we heard him groan and we knew that it was a twinge of pain. But he didn’t say anything. He didn’t complain”explained the 75-year-old Franco-American journalist.
Although he is rather discreet about his private life, Franz-Olivier Giesbert is the happy father of a son who is starting to make headlines. In Paris Match this Thursday, December 5, Alexandre Giesbert is in the spotlight, he who excels in a field far removed from politics. Indeed, the forty-year-old is at the head of Danico, an establishment which has just entered 49th place in the top 50 best bars in the world from the World’s 50 Best organization. “In a few years, this quadra has carved out a place among the chic Parisian canteens. With a credo that could be: ‘Volere è potere’. To want is to be able”analyze our colleagues concerning the one who graduated from the Ferrandi school and who began his career “by bistros in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, then a pork kebab”.
Alexandre Giesbert wants to conquer America
A great success for the son of Franz-Olivier Giesbert, who explains the recipe for his success in an industry hard hit by “the rise in energy prices, wages, staff shortages”. “To last, you need consistency and rigor. I’m more of a businessman than a chef”entrusted to Paris Match the son of the one who made one a few years ago. Today, Alexandre Giesbert is at the head of Daroco, a group which employs 120 people. “All this was done patiently, without any large group of capital, just ‘love money’”explains the young entrepreneur.
And don’t talk to him about his illustrious father, since for Alexandre Giesbert, “‘son of’ is not a vocation”. After having succeeded in conquering England and London, where he has an establishment in the Soho district, the next stop happens to be the country of his father’s birth, the United States, “but he will have to renounce the dogma of ‘flygskam’ which requires, out of eco-responsible conscience, to no longer take the plane”conclude our colleagues.
