“Do you have any classics left? This is the second time I’ve come, expressly to taste it!”
This young physiotherapist near Les Halles, in Paris, is unaware that two former candidates from the last edition of “Top Chef” are standing in front of him: Albane Auvray and Hugo Riboulet (the winner!).
If he returns to Groot, the counter that the two friends, each 25 years old, inaugurated two months ago, it is to taste one of the four pies on the menu (priced from €15.90 to €17.90). €).
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The duo prepares 120 to 160 of these puff pastry domes on site per day, regularly sold out by 1:30 p.m. (especially on weekends, when customers take them in quantity to reheat during meals with family or friends).
So what pushed these two young people with starred careers (Clarence, Bristol, Guy Savoy for her; Marcon, La Cachette, Clos des Sens for him) to dedicate a street food brand to this very technical, emblematic recipe? bourgeois cuisine of yesteryear?
You can put almost everything in a pie!
Hugo Riboulet, winner of “Top Chef” 2023
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