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Hamid Miss has never followed a set path to achieve and become what he is today. It is through self-sacrifice and passion that he fomented and accomplished, with his wife Typhaine, La Pente Douce, their restaurant in Toulouse.
Hamid Miss grew up near Rabat, Morocco, surrounded by women, his mother and his sisters. “Knowing that men in Morocco do not cook, I was in the skirts, I tasted, I apprehended the flavors, I looked, I understood the taste of Moroccan cuisine, of chocolate, the taste in fact. .”
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At 13, he arrived in France, with nothing other than his backpack, to meet his father. This takes him to Tarn-et-Garonne but it goes very badly, and he quickly finds himself alone in France. Despite everything, he decided to stay and joined the Jean-Rostand college in Valence-d’Agen. “I stayed there until third grade but I didn’t have the level in French. I then went on to a CAP in turning and milling and took my professional baccalaureate at the Michelet high school in Montauban.”
At that time, military service was still compulsory (he had French nationality, through his father) and he found himself in Auch, then in Clermont-Ferrand and ended up as rope leader within the prestigious corps of Chasseurs Alpins in the Alps. He stayed there for 2 and a half years.
He studies French cuisine
Hamid then arrived in Toulouse to work in the aeronautics sector. He quickly got tired of it and started working in the restaurant business, but initially by washing dishes in a few restaurants in Toulouse. He spent his life at Fnac and stocked up on gastronomic books. “I locked myself away for 2-3 years to study French cuisine, the great cuisine of Alain Passard, Joël Robuchon, the Troisgros brothers, Anne-Sophie Pic’s dad and I understood what the French cuisine, he explains. I then began to bring my Moroccan touch to it.”
Now officially a chef, he started with Arnaud Chérubin and Philippe Lacassagne at Les 2 Pashas, then he opened the Comptoir d’Orient, the first Metropolitan, and finally the 20 Canons before finally opening his own table, first in his own house, avenue de Grande-Bretagne. Success being achieved, with his wife Typhaine, they decided to take over premises on rue de la Concorde which would become La Pente Douce today.
Noticed and highlighted by François-Régis Gaudry on France Inter, l’Express and Paris Première, it obtained some time later the title of “best couscous in France” awarded by the latter. The success cannot be denied and it is always a pleasure to join them on rue de la Concorde, as the slope is so gentle…
