Émilie REY

Pastry Chef : 1 restaurant Having worked with Marcon and Lameloise, talented pastry chef Émilie Rey and her husband Édouard Mignot are now passing on their passion for pastry at the double "toqué" Ed.Em restaurant, in the heart of the Burgundy vineyards.

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"When I was about ten, I told my grandmothers that one day I'd have my own restaurant, and they laughed," recallsÉmilie Rey. After graduating from the Grenoble-Lesdiguières hotel school with a BTH and a BTS, she went on to complete an apprenticeship in restaurant desserts with Christophe Roure. "It wasthere that I discovered the world of haute gastronomy. I realized that it was very square, and that appealed to me. "

Fresh out of school, the young woman made her debut as pastry chef at the Auberge de l'Île in Lyon. Three months after her arrival, she received a call from Régis Marcon, whom she had contacted a year earlier. He was the chef I wanted to work for," she says, "I liked what he stood for. She started out as a commis, and left four years later as the pastry chef's second-in-command. With her partner Édouard Mignot, she then moved to Chagny, to the prestigious Maison Lameloise, to take up the position of head pastry chef. It was a great time," she says, "I learned how to create menus and desserts... "

In 2013, with ten years of rich experience behind them, the duo opened their first restaurant: Ed.Em, in Chassagne-Montrachet (Côte-d'Or). Gault&Millau crowned the establishment with 2 fine toques and awarded it the trophée Pâtissière Bourgogne 2015. Since then, they have launched La Cabane, a stone's throw from Ed.Em, and Prosper, within Château Saint-Aubin. Next project? The opening of their boulangerie-pâtisserie-chocolaterie in 2024!

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