Loïc VILLEMIN

Chef : 1 restaurant

Presentation

While Michel Bras has obviously left his mark on several generations of chefs, few of them have the same boundless admiration for him as Loïc Villemin has for the master of Aubrac. It's no coincidence that our Grand de Demain 2012 chose the Toya brand for the restaurant he opened in 2010. Toya is the Japanese town lost in the middle of the mountains, in one of the country's most beautiful regions, where Michel and Sébastien Bras will be running a restaurant until 2020. In some ways, this universe is reminiscent of the environment of his Faulquemont restaurant, with its Zen room opening 360° onto the fairways of the local golf course and the ponds that dot it.

Trained by the likes of Laurent Peugeot (Le Charlemagne, Pernand-Vergelesses), Jean-Georges Klein and Arnaud Lallement, Loïc Villemin is now guided by his instincts to create a cuisine of research and progress: fermentations, extractions, daring combinations. Like Gilles Goujon and Alexandre Gauthier before him, Loïc Villemin has adopted the courageous model of haute gastronomy in a remote village, and it's a path already crowned with success.

Biography & Awards

1986 naissance à Saint-Avold, en Moselle

2010 ouverture de Toya, à Faulquemont

2012 Grand(e) de Demain

2013 Trophée Grand(e) de Demain

2017 Trophée Gault&Millau d'Or

2020 4 toques