Special envoy to Toulouse (Haute-Garonne)
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Let it be said: Toulouse is no longer the entrenched camp of duck fat and heady violet sweets.
Without denying the torrent of stones that rolls in his accent, as Claude Nougaro once sang, local gastronomy is emancipating itself, lightening up, regenerating itself.
Young chefs take their ease in the shadow of Saint-Sernin and do wonders there.
Nothing is more delightful than seeing a thirty-year-old take a rustic score from the depths of the ages and give it a graceful facelift, seemingly nothing.
This is what Laura Pelou achieves at Gram's (a tribute to her cooking grandmothers), opened in October 2022 in the booming Colombette district.
Originally from neighboring Aveyron, she first exercised her talents near Villefranche-de-Rouergue (Aveyron) before settling down in Toulouse.
Its restaurant is soberly decorated in a brick-white-wood style, you feel at home there.
The Gram's team with Valentin Riva (left), Laura Pelou (center) and Leila Tauvry (right).
Ezilda Pélissier
The lunch menu is a godsend.
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