It is a Quebec establishment, the Battuto, which was crowned Restaurant of the Year at the end of a festive gala hosted by Christian Bégin at Windsor Station, Monday evening, for the presentation of the Lauriers de la gastronomie québécoise awards. .
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The entire restaurant industry gathered in the bright Salle des Pas perdus at Windsor Station for this fourth edition of the event founded by Christine Plante. The gala, again and again hosted by Christian Bégin, rewarded the winners in the 16 categories.
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Paul Croteau and Guillaume St-Pierre, co-owners of Battuto with sommelier Pascal Plante (not pictured).
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Simon Mathys was elected Chef of the Year.
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Dominic Labelle, Revelation of the Year.
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Battuto won the prestigious Restaurant of the Year award. The Quebec restaurant was a finalist in each edition of the Lauriers and it was finally its turn to win the trophy. It will undoubtedly be even more difficult to find a place in the tiny Italian-inspired restaurant, but the terrace is without reservation, we hear.
Simon Mathys, who opened the Restaurant Mastard in the midst of a pandemic in 2020, won over the curbing and the jury, chaired this year by Marc-André Jetté, with his fine locavore cuisine. The new chef of the year, visibly in shock but also very happy, had nothing but praise to say to his highly talented team, without whom none of this would have been possible.
The race in the Revelation of the Year category was high for this edition, with the presence of Montreal restaurants Knuckles, La Franquette, Salle Climatisée and chef Emmy Plante (participant in the bosses!). In the end, it was chef and farmer Dominic Labelle who stood out with his Parcelles country table project.
Award-winning established artisans
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The bakers Seth Gabrielse and Julien Roy (on the right) ofAutomne Boulangerie, accompanied by Quentin Lamensch, partner.
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Chloé Migneault-Lecavalier, pastry chef of the year.
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Chloé Gervais-Fredette, craftswoman of the year.
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Here is another duo that has been a finalist in all editions of the Lauriers without ever winning the Baker of the Year award: Seth Gabrielse and Julien Roy have rightly been recognized for their work at the Autumn Bakery. “We felt it was our turn! We are especially happy for our team, which really stood out this year,” notes Julien Roy.
The magnificent creations of pastry chef and chocolate maker Chloé Migneault-Lecavalier of Lecavalier Petrone did well. The company was also a finalist in the Artisa category. not. are of the year. “I’m so happy, it touches me a lot,” said the pastry chef of the year, whose business exploded during the pandemic.
It is also another chocolate maker, Chloé Gervais-Fredette who stood out in this category with her company Les Chocolats de Chloé, where she had already been a finalist in 2019. A very nice recognition for the one who has been rolling her bump since a long time: she opened her small shop in Duluth in 2003. “I never had an idea of grandeur! For me, the important thing is my small team, maintaining quality and human relations! »
As for Producer of the Year, Porc de Beaurivage, who was a finalist for the second time in this category, walked away with top honors.
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Claudia Doyon.
Also a finalist last year, Claudia Doyon, from the Distillerie de la Chauderie in Granby, finally won the prize for Mixologist or Bartender of the Year. “This wave of love shows me that we are on the right track in Quebec. All these chefs who have worked on the boreal have laid the framework, we are in the process of lifting the walls! »
Pier-Alexis Soulière, crowned Best Sommelier of the Americas in 2018 and sommelier at Le Clan, restaurant of chef Stéphane Modat, won the title of Sommelier of the Year. In the Beverage Producer of the Year category, the renowned Menaud distillery in Clermont won the coveted prize.
Pierre Julien, from the Graziella restaurant, won the Best Service Award. And it was the restaurant L’Express, founded in 1980, which received the Tribute Prize. “We are theater people, it all started with a script. Yes, it’s a European bistro, but we’ve always been deeply Montrealers,” summed up one of the founders, Pierre Villeneuve.
Quebec on the plate
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Ariane Paré-Le Gal, accompanied by her husband Pascal Benaksas-Couture, dedicated the prize to her father, Gérard Le Gal.
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Geneviève Vézina-Montplaisir and Véronique Lavoie, two of the founders of Caribou.
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Adelle Tarzibachi and Geneviève Comeau of Les Filles Fattoush.
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The gathering of wild products is more popular than ever in Quebec and it is without a doubt thanks to the immense contribution of the Gourmet Sauvage company, in Mont-Blanc. The latter won the Gastronomic Tourism Prize, which Ariane Paré-Le Gal dedicated to her father, Gérard Le Gal, who founded the company 30 years ago and paved the way for the wild food industry. .
Caribou received the Culinary Culture Outreach Award. The medium has managed to do well since the launch of the first issue in October 2014. “We were really well received by the industry, which was the first to believe in Caribou “, reacted Geneviève Vézina-Montplaisir, one of the co-founders.
Founded by Adelle Tarzibachi in 2017 to provide a job opportunity for newly arrived Syrian women, Les Filles Fattoush won the Business of the Year Award.
Cuisine, Cinéma & Confidences, a hybrid event that takes place in Charlevoix each fall, was named Event of the Year.
Should the Public Laurel be renamed “Laurier de Ricardo”? Yes, the popular cook has once again won this award, an undisputed reign since the very first edition of the Lauriers, in 2018.