Margaux BOISSON

Pastry Chef : Dialogues Revealed in Lyon alongside Adrien Zedda, Margaux Boisson creates the desserts at Dialogues (2 toques) in Biarritz, where her pastry converses with savoury cuisine. Pâtissière trophy 2026 in Nouvelle-Aquitaine.

Presentation

The daughter of a physics and chemistry teacher, Margaux Boisson first earned a science baccalaureate on her mother’s sound advice. The young woman, who grew up in the Bresse region, then enrolled at École Vatel in Lyon with the aim of going into hotel management. “The prospect of travelling motivated me”, she recalls with a smile. Yet it was at Georges Blanc’s, where she worked in the dining room, that she changed course. “I enjoyed contact with guests. Yet something was missing when I presented the dishes to them. I wanted to know more, so I went back to earn a cookery certificate.”

A revelation at Culina Hortus in Lyon

As an apprentice, she joined Adrien Zedda, who founded Culina Hortus in Lyon with his partner and sommelier Thomas Bouanich. Covid struck almost immediately and, encouraged by her chef, the future pastry chef took the opportunity to earn an additional qualification in plated desserts. “After a few months with Adrien and Thomas, I took over as head of pastry. Since then, the three of us have been inseparable, and it was only natural that I followed them when they decided to open Dialogues in Biarritz.”

At Dialogues, pastry nourished by savoury flavours

The name Dialogues (2 toques) reflects the symbiosis between Adrien Zedda’s savoury cuisine and the desserts Margaux Boisson imagines. “It’s probably contradictory, but I prefer savoury dishes to sweet ones. That shows in how I design my desserts, even though my creations remain indulgent, of course. My inspirations? A new herb, a childhood memory, a new ingredient…” Less sweet than expected, her creations follow the seasons, as with her work on rhubarb and strawberry inspired by the strawberry milk of her childhood. On 15 June 2026, she received the Pâtissière trophy at the Gault&Millau Tour Nouvelle-Aquitaine.