Alice JAILLET-BRÉBANT

Pastry Chef : 1 restaurant

Presentation

Alice Jaillet-Brébant warns: "Nobody cooked in my family." Born in 1983 in Paris, the young girl didn't grow up with a vocation for pastry chef, although she confides humorously: "My mother knows her way around Paris thanks to the bakeries and tearooms."

After studying modern literature at the Sorbonne, then in Italy (in Venice), where she wrote a thesis on Amélie Nothomb, she took over the management of a contemporary art gallery in 2008.

"My life choice was a revolution", admits the woman who, in her spare time, doesn't hesitate to get down to cooking. In 2015, the couple she forms with Riccardo Suppa (since 2006) moved to Bordeaux. Their shared desire? To take the helm of a restaurant, with the young woman in charge of the sweet side. Lume opened its doors and, after a few years, the period of the pandemic proved to be a transition that Alice Jaillet-Brébant seized upon to showcase other skills: "If everything is lived together, my dada is more and more the dining room and sommelier."That's probably why she doesn't hesitate to emphasize what drives her every day in her establishment: "Favoring the experience, a culture of taste and the moment of the meal."

T. L.