Event gastronomy | Warm in front: like in a restaurant

There is a new catering service in town, which also serves as a home chef, to meet your every gourmet reception need. What’s more, the exceptional Chaud Avant team still has the capacity to respond to some last-minute requests for the holidays.

Jean-François Fournier, Amine Nasrallah, Daria Tchoudakova and Véronique Gravel are the four partners in this event gastronomy project. During the pandemic, Jean-François, who had mainly worked as a sommelier in his career (Majestique, Montréal Plaza, Cabane d’à vite), took up an old passion at home: cooking. His “clientele” really liked it and asked for more.

As for Amine, who had been sous-chef at Toqué! and at the Montreal Plaza, he did not want to return to the restaurant business after 15 years of service. He therefore joined forces with Jean-François. The two women work more behind the scenes. The first holds the purse strings, while the second manages the company’s image and communications.

“I didn’t want an army of waiters in black who don’t say a word! » says Jean-François. Thus was born a refined catering offer, with seasonal local dishes and a service that was as warm as it was professional.

The author of these lines was able to experience “Chaud avant” twice, including once, completely by chance, this week, during a wine tasting in the loft of the Le vin dans les agency. sails. After appetizers full of vegetable and/or maritime freshness, there were a few nods to holiday classics with a superb terrine topped with cranberries and a foie gras “sandwich” between two slices of delicious French bread. spices.

In the fall, I attended a larger event, for around a hundred people, in the superb Tundra room of the Planetarium. The team was expanded for the occasion with friendly staff from establishments where the founders worked in the past. Guests wandered from one station to another enjoying seafood, small plates of vegetables and labneh, late-night hotdogs, assorted desserts, and more. In addition, the cocktails served and the wines chosen were quality.

In short, whether for six people at home, for a large group in a cocktail dinner formula or for a wedding, Chaud avant adapts.