Nina Métayer was pastry chef for Jean-François Piège or for the Hôtel Raphaël. At 35, she can boast of working on her own today and of having already written two books.

She opened her Tea Time last October at Café Clotilde at Maison Colbert, in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. “When I was 14, I emancipated myself a little from my family. I started working in markets, handing out flyers to reimburse my parents,” she says.