Comment Albert Roux's legacy lives on in restaurants across the UK – everyone wanted a slice of his magic With his brother Michel, the chef and restaurateur kick-started a rebirth of fine-dining restaurants in this country Albert Roux, who has died at the age of 85 Credit: PA By the time Marco Pierre White chanced his arm at a job at Le Gavroche in 1981, its co-founder Albert Roux, who has died at the age of 85, was a well-established figure in the culinary firmament. Indeed the restaurant had just moved from its original premises in Lower Sloane Street to Upper Brook Street in swanky Mayfair. But still at the stove was Albert, who had opened Le Gravroche in 1967 with his brother Michel, who predeceased him in March last year.