2023-12-27 14:28:23
It is certain that we have already seen more discreet in terms of frontage! Installed since the end of November at Place des Dominicains, the ephemeral restaurant “Chous et Croute” has succeeded in getting people talking about it while the Colmar Christmas market is in full swing. At issue: its red and white facade which is not at all to the mayor’s taste. Deemed “garish”, this storefront “does not respect the codes of Christmas magic”, according to him. To the point of the elected official encouraging his constituents not to eat there during a recent live on Facebook.
“We are in the heart of a protected area and each change of storefront must be the subject of a request to the town hall and the architect of Bâtiments de France. Nothing was done according to the rules,” annoys Éric Straumann, the first councilor (LR).
However, it is to a native of the Haut-Rhin prefecture that we owe the opening of the culinary establishment. “The original facade was in very poor condition and we wanted to hide it with this red and white facade. I sent a request to the architect of Bâtiments de France, but I received a file to fill out on December 1st when the Christmas market had already started,” the restaurant director explains in a message on Facebook. .
A position which does not convince the mayor of Colmar: “We have sent a formal notice to this restaurant to modify its facade under penalty of daily financial penalties. “.
For its part, the management of “Choux etcrust” plays appeasement: “We want to stay at least until January 15 with this provisional Christmas facade. If we do not find an agreement with the town hall, we will modify our storefront because we want to perpetuate our restaurant in Colmar. »
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