Roux first decided to be a chef at the age of 14, something which his chef father,
Michel Roux described as being equally "over the moon" and "disturbed" about. Whilst in France, he served his period of
military conscription as a chef at the
Élysée Palace. Before this, in 2000, he joined Relais Desserts, an international society of pastry chefs. Alain is one of the judges of the Roux Scholarship, and has appeared as a
celebrity chef judge on
MasterChef: The Professionals. In 2011, he developed new menus for the Business Premier class onboard
Eurostar trains. Roux leads the 1-
Michelin-starred French restaurant
Le Normandie of the
Mandarin Oriental in
Bangkok,
Thailand from 1 December 2021 onwards. ==Personal life==