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Alessandra MONTAGNE
Chef : 1 restaurant
"We don't miss what we don't have. "That's how Alessandra Montagne describes her happy childhood, spent on a Brazilian farm, until she came to France in 1999. In 2001, knowing that she would be staying in France, she began to take a close interest in the country's culinary culture. " When I arrived, I found the terroir incredible," she exclaims. A curiosity that naturally led her to cook, to the point where she became very demanding of herself: "I did things well, but I wanted to do them perfectly, like the chefs."
In 2009, with a view to further perfecting her technique, she enrolled in the CAP cuisine program at the CFA Médéric in Paris. She did a year in the kitchen, graduating top of her class, then a year in pastry-making. Her apprenticeship master was none other than William Ledeuil, and her first experience was with Adeline Grattard. On the pastry side, she was trained by Benoît Castel, completing a kind of revelation. "I had finally met people who fervently shared the same passion as me."
At the end of 2011, with her daughter's father, she opened Tempero on a discreet street in Paris's 13th arrondissement. With no advertising, the restaurant was never empty, and in 2014, Bistrot Tempero was inaugurated. Around the same time, Alessandra Montagne appeared on the cover of Gault&Millau magazine. "It was like a dream. Gault&Millau gave me such confidence in myself, such recognition..."
In 2017, the Bistrot Tempero experience came to an end. Two years later, the chef also sold Tempero, to think bigger. Nosso was born in 2020 - or, more accurately, in 2021, after a period of instability for Covid-19. Buoyed by her "local, no-throw-away cuisine", Alessandra Montagne was awarded the Gault&Millau Jeune Talent 2022 trophy, which "inspired her to go further" and anchored her firmly in the French culinary landscape.
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