Setting up the Gogaille take-out restaurant in Poitiers is a great career change for this French teacher who likes to talk as much as to thrill her taste buds with dishes from cuisines from elsewhere. Charlotte Balcan has been a vegetarian for a long time, she has always had fun cooking and wanted to share this passion by setting up her business. She prepares meals and organizes themed cooking workshops every month. She chose “Gogaille” as the name for her take-out restaurant, because “faire gogaille” is an old popular expression which means “have a happy meal“, because cooking vegetarian is not sad, on the contrary, especially when Charlotte Balcan seeks recipes from all continents.
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Local, organic and responsible chef
The ideal for her is to cook with ingredients that grow here, in season, organic, bought in bulk and that she transports to her kitchen by bike. Of course as much as possible. Charlotte Balcan offers two complete dishes and two different desserts every week, cooked like at home. A journey of the taste buds from Asia to Africa through original creations, according to his inspiration. Charlotte Balcan also has a great passion for wild edible plants. She also resumes her observation and tasting outings in the spring.
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She cooks at home and opens a lunch counter on the ground floor of her house to sell pre-ordered meals on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. She reserves Tuesday for business orders. You can also pick up your meals at the Canon wine shop (44, rue Ferdinand Foch, in the city center) in Poitiers.
The dishes are presented in returnable jars and kept warm from 12:15 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Find Gogaille’s menus on social networks and place your orders by phone.
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Gogaille – 53 rue Georges Guynemer – 86000 Poitiers
Charlotte Balcal: 06 16 63 87 36
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