Bastien SALVATGE

Chef : 1 restaurant Bastien Salvatge, who trained in Toulouse and worked in some of the world's top restaurants, has taken over the Cuq-en-Terrasses restaurant in Cuq-Toulza, in the heart of the Tarn region, with his partner.

Presentation

Trained at the Toulouse Hotel School, Bastien Salvatge can boast a CV that would make many of his younger colleagues pale. A first internship with Jean-Luc Rabanel, former Chef of the Year in Arles, a fruitful experience with Julien Poisot at the Château de Mercuès in the Lot region, followed by a stint in Paris with Julien Montbabut at the Restaurant de l'Hôtel in Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

"I felt at home in Paris and wanted to stay with Julien.But chef Michel Sarran, with whom I'd kept in touch during a previous internship, contacted me to offer me the position of head of the fish section at his restaurant on BoulevardArmand-Duportal. I couldn't refuse .

the birth of Cuq-en-Terrasses

The young chef stayed with the Toulouse-based chef for two years before joining Pierre Lambinon at Py-R. "It was through him that, with my partner Charline Mage, I bought the Cuq-en-Terrasses restaurant in Cuq-Toulza. Pierre had been offered to buy the business a few years earlier, but didn't want to buy another business. It was thanks to him that we were able to contact the previous owners and buy this magnificent stone building, whose garden supplies all our vegetables.