After pastry school, coffee and sweet shops, Christophe Michalak is preparing to add a new string to his bow: the bakery.
Kopain will open at the end of September, rue du Faubourg-Poissonnière, in Paris (10th district), right next to its pastry shop - café - school.
An opening that sounds like a homecoming since it is in bakery, and not in pastry, that the media chef apprenticed at the age of 15.
If he has since become a star of the sweet, he was able to practice on bread and pastries during his long experience - 16 years - as pastry chef at the Plaza Athénée.
He had worked there on a new range of pastries and rolls, in particular kouglofs, sugar tarts and filled brioches which are always on the menu of the palace on avenue Montaigne.
Rediscover your childish emotions
A job that Michalak intends to continue at Kopain, where he also aims to
"rediscover the emotions felt when a child he robbed, accompanied by his grandmother, the bakery in his village."
Presented as a
"neighborhood bakery"
, with a universe without
"Chi-Chi or Bla-Bla"
, this new place with a refined design will put the different doughs in the spotlight: bread, brioche, pie, pastries, cake ...
All announced in a simple and rustic presentation, putting the raw product in the spotlight, with a minimum of packaging.
By using, without surprise, quality raw materials: organic flour and eggs, PDO butter, natural sourdoughs, long-term fermentation, oil and olives from the Baux de Provence AOC valley ...
In an already very competitive world of quality artisan bread and pastries - joined by luxury chefs like Cédric Grolet with his Opera boutique, or quite recently François Perret who offers pastries and sandwiches at the Ritz Paris Le Comptoir -, Michalak affirms that he does not seek to propose a new concept, or to revolutionize the bakery already full of talent, but simply to
"satisfy a long-standing desire, to have fun and to go further in the work of the dough that he loves so much ”
.
Kopain. 60, rue du Faubourg Poissonnière (Paris 10th). Opening scheduled for the end of September 2021.