Jean-Marie BAUDIC

Chef : 1 restaurant

Presentation

In our 2004 edition, in which another Breton was named Cook of the Year (Jean-Paul Abadie, l'Amphitryon in Lorient), Jean-Marie Baudic was one of our six "Grands de Demain". At the time, he was just 30 years old, at the helm of Les Pesked in Saint-Brieuc, and we said of him: "He has, from afar, the face of a Lenin, goatee cut to the bone, fine hair well combed around a more than incipient bald spot".

The latter has long since won the day for this chef who has always asserted his singularity and freedom of speech and thought. Trained by Patrick Jeffroy, he spent four years with Pierre Gagnaire and his chef Jean-Michel Nave, in Saint-Etienne and then Paris, before assisting Hélène Darroze on rue d'Assas, before returning to his native region .

In Brittany, after the Pesked episode, his meeting with his future wife was to have a major influence on the cuisine he would offer once home, at the Youpala Bistro, where his technique, instinct and uncompromising accuracy would earn him 16/20. The adventure lasted until 2016, when a nasty fire destroyed his Youpala. Jean-Marie then returned to the capital of Brittany and the Ciel de Rennes, on the second floor of the Centre Culinaire Contemporain, where he offers a fine bistronomic cuisine based on Bleu-Blanc-Cœur products, a sustainable agricultural approach to improving the nutritional and environmental quality of our food .