BLT Split Gets Ugly. Laurent Tournadel will fight for his name and boozy milk shakes.

        It didn’t take long for what sounded like a lovey, dovey split of chef Laurent Tournendel and his partner at the BLT Restaurant Group to simmer into a bare knuckle fight. When I read how little the chef got in the divorce for creating the restaurants and concept that helped build the company into a small empire, I figured the guy had naively neglected to read his pre-nup agreement. Not knowing the inside story – I wondered if he had done anything to provoke no I recalled how he got stabbed by the owners of Cello where he had The formal announcement said.

        Jacques Le Magueresse, the longtime manager of Le Bernardin, and together the two have conspired brilliantly to create a top-class French fish restaurant in the new headquarters of Cello Music and Film Systems. Jacques Le Magueresse, the longtime manager of Le Bernardin, and together the two have conspired brilliantly to create a top-class French fish restaurant in the new headquarters of Cello Music and Film Systems.