Gilles CHOUKROUN

Chef : 1 restaurant Gilles Choukroun, founder of Génération C and brilliant host of Café des Délices, took over Baca'v in Paris's 5th arrondissement in early 2024.

Presentation

Chef Gilles Choukroun is sometimes where you least expect him, but his work is never lacking in sparkle or panache.

In Chartres, this North African-influenced chef takes center stage

Our first contact with this jack-of-all-trades dates back to the mid-1990s. This child of Argenteuil had not yet reached his thirties, but at La Truie qui File, in the heart of Chartres, his cuisine, which favors North-South dialogue, was already creating sparks. Gault&Millau awarded him 15/20 and the "Clés d'Or de la Gastronomie". He then left the Eure-et-Loir prefecture to open Café des Délices, in the ^6th arrondissement of Paris. His career took a new turn as he - along with a number of other "freedmen", including Inaki Aizpitarte, Stéphane Jégo, David Zuddas and Jean-Marie Baudic - launched a new, freer and more relaxed form of catering.

Numerous restaurant openings in the 1990s

This was a decade of hyperactivity for Gilles Choukroun, who opened Angl'Opéra, in the Edouard 7 hotel, then MBC (for Menthe-Basilic-Coriandre), where his innate sense of the simple and the very good once again worked wonders. While remaining one of the leaders of Génération C - a cooks' collective created in 2005 - he is also regularly seen on Cuisine TV, alongside Laurent Mariotte.Then, in the spring of 2024, he returned to his first love, Baca'v, in the^5th arrondissement. A restaurant offering superbly executed dishes, where you'll be greeted with a smile by the chef patron, logically rewarded with 2 toques and the Accueil Île-de-France 2024 trophy.