Par pitié, savourez nos plats, au lieu de les mitrailler. Deux chefs français font part de leur agacement face à certains clients qui, téléphone en main, prennent des photos de leurs assiettes pour les poster sur les réseaux sociaux. 
 
 Gilles Goujon, chef trois étoiles de L'Auberge du vieux puits, à Fontjoncouse, dans l'Aude, prend l'exemple de son œuf de poule "pourri" de truffes. "Si les gens le prennent en photo coupé et l'envoient sur les réseaux sociaux, ça enlève la surprise, déplore-t-il. On enlève aussi un peu ma propriété intellectuelle, on peut être copié." 
 
 "On n'arrive pas à déconnecter les gens" 
 
 Alexandre Gauthier, chef du restaurant la Grenouillère, à La Madelaine-sous-Montreuil (Pas-de-Calais), a lui représenté un appareil photo barré sur sa carte. "Les photos ne sont pas interdites, mais je veux créer l'interrogation", explique-t-il. "On n'arrive pas à déconnecter les gens", regrette le chef étoilé, âgé de 34 ans, tout en assurant qu'il ne s'agit que d'une minorité de clients. 
 
 "Avant, ils faisaient des photos de famille, de la grand-mère, et maintenant on fait des photos de plat", note-t-il. "C'est gratifiant, mais nous sommes une maison où il y a peu d'éclairage, donc il faut le flash. (...) On tweete, on 'like', on commente, on répond. Et le plat est froid", lâche-t-il encore. "Il y a des moments pour tout. (...) On essaie de créer une parenthèse dans la vie de nos clients. Pour ça, il faut déconnecter du portable." 
 
 Agacement à New York aussi 
 
 Les chefs français ne sont pas les seuls à se plaindre. Dans le New York Times, des chefs de New York ont dénoncé récemment l'attitude de certains clients, debout sur leur chaise pour prendre la meilleure photo possible, qui utilisent le flash, voire des trépieds en plein restaurant. Conséquence : quelques-uns interdisent aux clients de prendre des clichés. 
 
 "Beaucoup de gens" le font, "c'est compliqué d'interdire", confie Gilles Goujon. "Je cherche une phrase à écrire [sur le menu], mais je n'ai pas encore trouvé la bonne formule, qui ne soit pas choquante." ||||| Thanks to the likes of Twitter, Instagram and Facebook the internet is now awash with carefully taken photos of extravagant plates of food – or ‘food porn’. 
 
 But the phenomenon has not gone down well with many of France’s finest chefs, some of whom are now asking customers not to take photos of dishes at their restaurants – something they claim infringes on their "intellectual property". 
 
 Gilles Goujon, whose "L’Auberge du Vieux Puits" restaurant in southern France holds three Michelin stars, says photos posted on social networks can ruin the experience for other diners. 
 
 “If people take a photo and put it out on social media, it takes away the surprise,” he told AFP, citing the example of his dish “oeuf de poule pourri de truffles” (chicken egg laden with truffles). 
 
 “It takes away a little bit of my intellectual property too. Someone could copy me,” he continued. 
 
 Description of the dessert I have eaten at L'auberge du vieux Puits, Fontjoncouse! http://t.co/ewC3A2qX4z pic.twitter.com/nXgGJkzPf3 — DreamLife of Emma (@EmmaChocolate) April 3, 2013 
 
 The quality of some of the photos taken is another problem for Goujon. 
 
 A photo “taken with a smartphone … is rarely good,” he says. “It doesn’t give the best impression of our work. It’s annoying.” 
 
 While admitting “it’s complicated” to ban photos from his restaurant, Goujon says he intends to put a message about the issue on his menus as soon as he can find a way of phrasing it so that will not be “too shocking” for diners. 
 
 ‘The food is cold’ 
 
 Alexandre Gauthier, chef at "La Grenouillère" in Pas-de-Calais in northern France, has already taken that step. His menus now come with a picture of a camera with a line through it to let customers know photos are not welcome, if not technically banned. 
 
 “Photos are not banned, but I want them to question it,” said the Michelin-starred chef. 
 
 #resto. La Grenouillère (La Madelaine-sous-Montreil): rarement cuisine n'aura été si déstabilisante, souvent brillante. pic.twitter.com/ghK91ROs — Parispot (@fredquidet) June 24, 2012 
 
 Like Goujon, Gauthier believes the constant snapping of dishes by smartphone-wielding customers detracts from the dining experience. 
 
 “They used to take family photos, of their grandmother, and now its photos of food,” he told AFP. “We tweet, we ‘like’, we comment, we respond. And the food is cold. 
 
 “We try to create a short break from ordinary life for our customers. In order to do that, you have to disconnect from your phone.” 
 
 But chefs should not be so quick to shirk the free publicity that social networks bring them, says French food blogger Stéphane Riss, of the “Cuisiner en Ligne” website. 
 
 “The more we talk about chefs, the better it is for them,” he said. “Photos increase visibility and therefore revenue.” 
 
 Some of France’s chefs agree. 
 
 “We must move with the times" says David Toutain, who opened his eponymous Paris restaurant in December. 
 
 "I think social networks helped me at the start of my career and still help me. It is advertising for us.” 
 
 (FRANCE 24 with AFP) 
 
 Date created : 2014-02-14 ||||| Image copyright Camille Labro Image caption Food journalist Camille Labro praised Alexandre Gauthier's creations on social media 
 
 Two Michelin-starred French chefs are cracking down on customers who take photographs of their food, it's been reported. 
 
 Gilles Goujon, who runs the three-starred L'Auberge du vieux puits restaurant in Fontjoncouse in southern France, says it is poor etiquette to take photos of food, and more importantly, every time his creations appear on social networks it "takes away the surprise, and a little bit of my intellectual property", news website France TV Info reports. 
 
 Another chef, Alexandre Gauthier of the Grenouillere restaurant in the northern French town of La Madelaine-sous-Montreuil, has gone as far as to add a "no cameras" logo to his menu - although photography isn't strictly banned there. 
 
 Gauthier lamented the fact that customers now take pictures of the food rather than the people they are dining with. "Before, they were pictures of family, grandmother, and now we take pictures of food… We tweet, we like, we respond to comments, and the dish is cold." 
 
 But not all fine dining establishments take the same view - some have even been known to offer food photography courses. 
 
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– Food porn—the incessant taking and sharing of photos of meals—has been around for a while now, as have complaints against it, notes the Eater blog. But a story by Francetv info and AFP is catching some attention because it features two top chefs, from France no less, who are pleading with people to put their phones away. (The story is here, but in French.) Gilles Goujon, who runs the three-star L'Auberge du Vieux Puits, says people who post photos "ruin the surprise" for subsequent diners, reports France24. He also complains that the photos are crimping on his "intellectual property," notes the BBC. And just for good measure, he carps that smartphone photos "are rarely good." Alexandre Gauthier of La Grenouillère, meanwhile, thinks the photo-taking detracts from the dining experience. And what's worse, "the food is cold." He has added a no-camera logo to his menu, though it's not exactly enforced. “Photos are not banned, but I want them to question it." Goujon says he's working up some kind of tactful message for his menu as well. All the stories sound a note of skepticism about whether the anti-food-porn message will take hold, however. As David Toutain, another Parisian chef, puts it, "I think social networks helped me at the start of my career and still help me. It is advertising for us."