This young pastry chef from Cotentin designated as “a rising star” in his discipline

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Barely open since spring 2022 in Valognes (Manche), Robin Girard's pastry shop had already stood out with an entry in the Gault & Millau Normandy 2023-2024 guide.

In this month of December 2024it's the turn ofa special issue of Crazy about baking to recommend it as one of fifty new “favorite” addresses of all of France.

Judges from this review certainly came to the pastry shop incognito, because I didn't receive anyone.

Crazy about baking writes that “Robin Girard is incontestably the rising value of pastry in the department of Manche. His journey, before settling in Valognes, at the age of 28, is retraced in broad terms.

After a passage at the Tidal Bore, rMichelin star restaurant in Blainville-sur-Mer, he went to Paris to work with great chefs In Parisian palacesincluding Christophe Michalak at the Plaza Athéée or François Perret at the Ritz.

With ten years experience at a very high levelce Cherbourg native was looking to return to the Channel, and it was Jacques Coquelin, the mayor de Valognes, who encouraged him to come to this commune rather than settling in the Val de Saire.

He is now at home and the Manchois are very lucky to be able to enjoy his creations, including his signature pastry, the lemon-hazelnut flower which absolutely should not overshadow all the others.

Il employs two employees has full timemoon behind the counter and the other and studio. From his experiences in the big housesRobin kept the desire to create a style a little “palace” but prices accessible to all.

“I don't want a fancy pastry shop that people don't dare enter for fear of only finding high prices. The spirit of pastry is to unwind customers ».

He is also keen to create a slightly childish universe with, for example, a chocolate-hazelnut BN, more for a snack, in the spirit of the little marshmallow bear.

From our correspondent Catherine CHAUMET

Pastry shop Robin Girard, 27 rue de l’Église, 50700 Valognes. Tel: 02 33 95 96 01. Website: robingirardpatisserie.com. Instagram: robingirardpatisserie.

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