Jacky Robert is one of the best-known and most revered French chefs in the United States.

After many years in haute cuisine at Ernies, San Francisco or Maison Robert and Locke-Ober in Boston as well as the Chatham Bars Inn on Cape Cod, Chef Robert joined with Loic Le Garrec to open the first Petit Robert Bistro in Kenmore Square in 2005.

Their philosophy is to bring the honest and delicious bistro food they loved from France to Boston. Two more Petit Robert Bistros followed.

Chef Robert began to cook at age 15 in his native Normandy, and worked in several three-star Michelin restaurants in Paris and southern France before moving to the United States in the 1970s. He is a Master Chef of France, an honor renewed in 2010. He has been featured in many national magazines and on culinary-related television programs such as The Dish with Frances Rivera and Educating Jenny with Jenny Johnson.

"Onion soup is the way onion soup is meant to be. A bowl of deeply flavored broth beef stock and long-cooked onions, caramel and char topped with bread, the whole thing sealed together with a thick layer of gooey broiled gruyere and (quel shock!) good old American Muenster. Many of the best dishes at Jacky's Table are those that taste like really good home cooking the kind of home where maman tipsily tips a bottle of wine into each pot as it simmers." - Boston Globe