Laurent FAVIER

Chef : 1 restaurant

Presentation

Laurent Favier has always had a passion for gastronomy:"At the age of 5, I was obsessed with the recipes in the Pomme d'Api newspaper . "But with his mother working in administration and his father in industry, he was advised to take the competitive entrance exams in these fields: "I purposely failed them so that I could enter the Paris School of Culinary Trades and obtain my CAP cuisine."

Alongside his studies, the young apprentice sharpened his knives at the Hôtel Bedford in Paris. After a stopover in London, he did his military service in the kitchen, then moved to the Novotel Paris les Halles Hotel in 1990, where he met his future wife, Florence. After a year, they decided to settle on the Ile de Ré, where they had both spent their childhood vacations. At the age of 23, Laurent Favier took up his first chef's post at Le Serghi, before moving on to Le Français.

In 1993, the couple moved closer to the capital and joined a company specializing in the reintegration of young people who had failed at school. "At the restaurant Le Martin Pêcheur, in Neuilly-sur-Marne, I tried to get them back on the road to work, by instilling in them a certain discipline found in the kitchen: Punctuality, hygiene..." After six years, he left the company and discovered haute gastronomy at Potel & Chabot caterers. "After two years, I realized that this was what I wanted to do, but on my own and on the Ile de Ré".

In 2002, Laurent Favier took over management of Le Français, before opening his own establishment with Florence in 2007. Nestled in a former wine storehouse, they naturally named it Chai Nous Comme Chai Vous. The chef offers "convivial and creative" gastronomy. "I cook according to the inspiration that comes to me; at the moment, it's Japan. It 's a philosophy that has earned him a 13/20 rating and 2 toques in the Gault&Millau guide.

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