A great promise of fusion cuisine. Three-star chef Christian Le Squer announced to Paris Match the upcoming opening of a new restaurant in Toronto, Canada, Onze. “I’m teaming up with Sushi chef Masaki Saito, at the head of the city’s only two-star establishment, to experiment with a fusion of French and Japanese cuisine,” he explains.
The eleven-seat establishment will offer an eleven-course service where the two chefs (for the first few months, then their sous-chefs) will cook in front of customers, mixing Japanese and French techniques, recipes and ingredients. “We will offer a unique menu, which will change every two months,” specifies the Breton chef. For the opening, we have planned oysters stiffened with salted butter from Brittany, sea bass with caviar and buttermilk, Japanese desserts… It will truly be an alliance of our two worlds. »
Merge several universes
A new project that delights the 63-year-old chef. “I have always been very attracted to Asian cuisine, which is very light and much more plant-based than ours. I also have a restaurant in Vietnam, where I love to go, and I am delighted to see that Vietnamese cuisine is now gaining momentum on the international scene. The secret of gastronomy is to always manage to renew oneself without ever forgetting the classics and digging into the cuisines of the world is perfect for that. »
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