The Gastronomy Festival (an event I have been covering since its very first edition) will take place this year on Friday, September 25th, Saturday, September 26th, and Sunday, September 27th, 2015.
The theme of this 5th edition, “Creativity and Audacity,” highlights, as its title suggests, the creativity and boldness of French chefs and artisans.
More than 6,600 events are planned throughout France and abroad, including 25 banquets and 42 picnics!
On the program, therefore, is a beautiful diversity of events across the regions: popular banquets, picnics, tastings, special menus in restaurants and school canteens, visits to companies or farms, exhibitions, conferences, and even street performances.
I also advise you to take a close look at the event’s program to make the most of these days.
Melle Bon Plan’s little selection in Paris (but not only…):
The Festival Aperitif
This event, “Aperitif Wines: Heritage & Gastronomy,” which will be held at the Wine Museum on Sunday, September 27th, will mark the closing of the 2015 Gastronomy Festival.
This will be the second edition of a public aperitif to promote the cultures and traditions of French gastronomy through the flavors and expertise of its local terroir.
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Sunday, September 27th from 6 PM to 8 PM
open to the public by invitation
Wine Museum (Musée du Vin)
5 Square Charles Dickens 75016 Paris
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Croq’en Seine
The Yvelines, Eure, and Val d’Oise departments are participating in the national gastronomy festival, renamed Croq’en Seine for the occasion.
Across these departments, little foodies and big cooking specialists will meet around dishes, tastings of local products, gourmet walks, iconic foods, and other unusual flavors.
On the program: from Friday, September 25th to Sunday, September 27th, about thirty events in the Yvelines, most of which will have the tempting theme “Creative and Audacious Toasts,” initiated by the Godmother of the Gastronomy Festival, Chef Anne-Sophie Pic. Workshops for adults or children, preparation and tasting of sweet or savory toasts.
Icing on the cake: the presence of Laurent Delarbre, head chef of the Tour d’Argent, in action with his team, at the Bouafle market on Sunday, September 27th.
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MyPopotte settles in at Petit Bain
It is in the cool setting of the Petit Bain barge that a Dinner with Flavors of the World (Thai, Caribbean, French, Italian…) will be held for the Gastronomy Festival.
The various dishes will be concocted by three amateur Cordon Bleus, passionate about cooking and regular users of the MyPopotte.com site (a collaborative website that allows amateur or professional cooks to sell their homemade dishes, for delivery or takeaway, to those who do not have the time or the desire to make them).
The event is open to the public, lovers of gastronomy and conviviality.
To participate, simply book online at MyPopotte.com: €12 per meal.
September 25th at 8 PM
Le Petit Bain
7 Port de la Gare, 75013 Paris
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The first Fromage Fashion Week in Paris
The Circle of “Mounia and her Cheese Girls” (Mounia et ses Filles à Fromages) is organizing the first Fromage Fashion Week in the heart of Paris on Sunday, September 27th.
On the program for this popular event entirely dedicated to the passion for fashion and French cheeses: a cheese brunch concocted by the Best French Cheesemakers (Meilleurs Ouvriers de France), a dancer show, a fashion show, and a gala dinner featuring cheese, signed by the renowned chef Yannick Alléno.
The program:
- 12:30 PM: cheese parade on Rue Boissy d’Anglas by the ambassadors of “Mounia and her Cheese Girls” (open to the public)
- 1:00 PM: jury prize-giving for the Fromage Fashion Week prize (open to the public)
- 1:30 PM: Cheese Girls brunch (by invitation only)
- 2:30 PM: dancer show orchestrated by Charlie le Mindu
- 8:00 PM: gala dinner signed by Yannick Alléno at Stay (by reservation only, 60 places available at €160)
Fromage Fashion Week
Sunday, September 27th, 2015 from 12:30 PM
Hôtel Sofitel Paris Le Faubourg
15 rue Boissy d’Anglas 75008 Paris
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Come Fishing in Montparnasse
For the 5th edition of the 2015 Gastronomy Festival, Cook and Com Sonia Dupuis puts shellfish farming and the Fishing industry in the spotlight.
During these three days, a village focusing on the fishing and shellfish industry will be held in a 450 m2 pavilion on Place Raul Dautry, opposite the Gare Montparnasse, and will be punctuated by numerous events.
On the program: tastings of hollow and flat oysters from different regions of France on Friday and Saturday, numerous culinary activities around fish and abalone with renowned Chefs, numerous culinary workshops to learn how to cook fish in all its forms, a Mr. Good Fish stand to raise public awareness about responsible consumption of seafood with quizzes, a mussel eclade (mussels covered with pine needles) on Saturday at 6 PM, …
September 25th, 26th, and 27th, 2015
Place Raul Dautry 75015 Paris / opposite the Gare Montparnasse
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Cooking Peruvian at Paris markets
On the occasion of the Gastronomy Festival, Viventura is partnering with the French Cuisine Federation to offer Parisians three completely free Peruvian cooking classes on the morning of September 27th, 2015, at the Bastille market.
The chef will teach them how to prepare delicious Peruvian Ceviches: preparation and cooking of corn, glazing of sweet potatoes, cutting of the various ingredients…
In parallel with this unique activity in Paris, Viventura (a tour operator specialized in South American circuits for 14 years) will help you discover circuits and stays to go meet Peru and its culture.
Information and registration at www.ffcuisine.fr
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At the market with the Chef of Château d’Audrieu
“Let’s go to the market with the Chefs” is an operation organized at the initiative of Relais & Châteaux as part of the gastronomy festival. On this occasion, Olivier Barbarin, the Chef of Château d’Audrieu in Normandy, will cook outdoors this Sunday, September 27th in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, at Place Lino Ventura.
Each portion will be sold at the symbolic price of €2 and the profits from the sales and derived products will be donated to A.N.D.E.S (the National Association for the Development of Solidarity Grocery Stores).
Place Lino Ventura, Paris 9th, from 8 AM to 1 PM
Metro Anvers, Pigalle (line 2) or Saint-Georges (line 12)
The Chef will also be present alongside 11 other chefs from the region for the “Culinary Fine Arts” operation from September 23rd to 27th at the Caen Museum of Fine Arts.
Everyone will be invited to taste the dish staged by the Chefs, in order to share a gourmet and friendly moment. To discover the painting and the recipe of Chef Olivier Barbarin, visitors are invited to come to the museum reception at 11 AM.
By reservation: 02 31 30 40 85
from Monday to Friday from 9 AM to 12 PM
Entry is free
+€3.50 for access to collections
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Tasting of Mexican specialties
Tasting and sale of Mexican specialties on Friday, September 25th from 4 PM.
Image “Le Viaduc des Arts”
123 rue Daumesnil 75012 Paris
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Eco-citizen Gastronomes Day in Bonneville (74)
On the program for this day of activities on sustainable food: conferences on sustainable food (presence of Claude AUBERT), cooking and oenology masterclasses, tastings, the Ethical Toques cooking competition, activity and information stands, local producer market, etc.
The complete program of the day is available here.
Saturday, September 26th, 2015 from 11 AM to 7 PM
François Bise Hotel School 86 Rue Asnières 74130 Bonneville
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Champagne-Ardenne on your plate
In the Champagne-Ardenne region, numerous festivities are planned around the theme “Champagne-Ardenne on your plate.”
On the program: tastings, events, shows, competitions… more than 70 activities have been imagined by the individuals and institutions solicited.
- Champagne Devaux in Bar-sur-Seine (Aube): Champagne tastings and discovery of regional products, saffron, and Burgundy truffle – From September 25th to 27th.
- La Ferme d’Hotte in Eaux-Puiseaux (Aube): 20th edition of the Traditional Pressing, with two apple juice production demonstrations: a traditional pressing and a modern pressing. Tastings of local products, train ride in the orchards, orchestra, etc.
- Epernay Pays de Champagne Tourist Office: 20th anniversary of Spirit of Champagne on Friday, September 25th and Saturday, September 26th from 10:30 AM to 12 PM and from 3 PM to 6 PM. Introductions to tasting (free) and sensory learning by 2 producers and/or Champagne houses.
- Sedan Tourist Office: Producer market in the moats of the Château Fort on Friday, September 25th and Saturday, September 26th, with gourmet buffets, cooking competition, workshops, children’s area, and tastings.
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The “Tous au Restaurant” Operation!
The Tous au Restaurant event, launched for the first time in June 2010 at the initiative of chef Alain Ducasse and Laurent Plantier, is the must-attend event for restaurateurs and the general public.
This year, it is from September 21st to October 4th, 2015, with the desire to open restaurants to the greatest number of people, that Tous au Restaurant! returns with “Your guest is our guest,” the formula that made the event a success.
Thus, in more than 1,000 participating establishments, the restaurateur will offer the second guest the Tous au Restaurant menu, consisting of a starter, a main course, and a dessert.
The tip: Table reservations are made only via the Tous au Restaurant website and I advise you to start as soon as they open on September 14th.
In Paris, some very fine addresses are participating in this operation, including the restaurant Maison Blanche, perched on the roof of the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées for a quarter of a century, with its gastronomic menu, signed by Chef Fabrice Giraud and Pastry Chef Paul Donore.
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All that remains is for me to wish you a happy Gastronomy Festival, my readers who love good food!
