2023-07-05 20:15:23
We are going to the gates of Angoulême, to Puymoyen, where Mickaël Clautour won his first star just a few months after the opening of his restaurant, Aumi. The young chef is a child of the country, returned to Charente after a very formative journey.
Posted on 07/05/2023 14:17 Updated on 07/05/2023 20:15
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Chef Mickaël Clautour and his partner Laura Legeay, who jointly run the Aumi restaurant, in Puymoyen near Angoulême. (YET DESIGN / AUMI)
And Mickael Clautour is behind the stoves of the Aumi restaurant, very close to Angoulême, it is indeed a portrait for two that must be drawn here. Because the young man has been pursuing his career for more than ten years with his partner, Laura Legeay, whom he met on the benches of the hotel school in Saint-Yrieix-sur-Charente. With, from the outset, the ambition to return to settle on their land to deploy a cuisine of excellence in a place in their image.
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Mickaël and Laura do things well. They furnished everything with their own hands in this former country inn transformed into a modern, elegant and cozy restaurant, with a name, Aumi, which takes on its full meaning with regard to their adventure: it is the mixed letters of their two first names.
“We had a priority, it was not to be in the city center. We wanted people to travel to come to us. It’s a bit like a house. It’s friendly, but by doing things well since ‘we have a star.
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After his initial training, Mickaël Clautour improved his technique with seasoned chefs such as the two-star Nicolas Masse in Gironde or Maxime Gilbert in Hong Kong. On the plate, it highlights the Charente terroir, but not only. He is very close to his producers, in particular the one who supplies him with duck breasts and foie gras, Jean Poux.
In summer, of course, no foie gras, but why not very nice duck aiguillettes, accompanied by a recipe based on Swiss chard, a vegetable that you will find until autumn on the markets, and which Mickaël cooks in a stew in the show.
The ragout of colored chard, created by Mickaël Clautour from the Aumi restaurant, in Puymoyen near Angoulême. (BERNARD THOMASSON / FRANCEINFO)
Aumi, a new gastronomic destination to discover in Angoulême, with Mickaël Clautour and Laura Legeay, a couple as warm as they are talented.
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