Yann Couvreur
Yann Couvreur is a French pastry chef. He owns several pastry stores in Paris.
Early life and education[edit]
After his third year of middle-school, he decided to take a BEP (Brevet d'Etudes Professionnelles - French professionalizing diploma) in cooking. He then pursued a CAP (Certificat d'Etudes Professionnelles - French professionalizing diploma) to deepen his knowledge in pastry at the Tecomah training center in Jouy-en-Josas.[1]
Then, he joined the restaurant Le Trianon Palace in Versailles as head chef. He was then hired by Gérard Vié in the double starred establishment Les Trois Marches also in Versailles.[2]
Career as a pastry chef[edit]
In 2008, Yann Couvreur departed for Saint-Barthélemy, and integrated the hotel Eden Rock as a pastry chef.[3]
After two years, he returned to metropolitan France and took over the pastry shop at the hotel Le Burgundy, located not far from the Place de la Madeleine in Paris.[4]
In 2013, he joined the hotel Le Prince de Galles[5] in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, rue Georges V, as head pastry chef. He accompanied the chef Stéphanie Le Quellec for the reopening of this institution after two years of renovation.
In 2015, he was approached by M6 (TV channel) to participate in the program Top Chef as a jury during one of the tests.[6]
His signature dessert is the vanilla mille-feuilles from Madagascar.[7] It received the Dessert of the Year prize by the Lebey guide in 2014.[8]
In 2016, he created the pastries for a meal served on board the Orient Express with his partner, chef Yannick Alléno.[1]
In 2017, he created a 4.5 meter high sculpture in honor of the fox in collaboration with Richard Orlinski at the Salon du Chocolat.[2][9]
Pastry stores[edit]
Yann Couvreur has several pastry stores in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, in the Marais, in the Galeries Lafayette and at the Gare Montparnasse.[10] He also opened two stores in Dubai.[11]
Books[edit]
- La pâtisserie de Yann Couvreur, 2017
- La pâtisserie de Yann Couvreur pour les enfants, 2020
- Ephemere - Les desserts a l'assiette, 2019
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Yann Couvreur, le renard de la pâtisserie". cuisine.journaldesfemmes.fr (in French). 2022-11-10. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
- ^ a b "Yann Couvreur : biographie et projets du grand Chef français". Cuisine AZ (in French). Retrieved 2023-03-15.
- ^ "Les meilleures recettes de Yann Couvreur, chef-pâtissier authentique et inspiré". Marie Claire (in French). Retrieved 2023-03-15.
- ^ "Yann Couvreur, la nouvelle star de la pâtisserie – Paris ZigZag | Insolite & Secret". www.pariszigzag.fr (in French). Retrieved 2023-03-15.
- ^ "Yann Couvreur | Thuriès Magazine". www.thuriesmagazine.fr. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
- ^ Telestar.fr (2015-02-17). "Top chef : qui est Yann Couvreur, le pâtissier qui a fait... - Télé Star". www.telestar.fr (in French). Retrieved 2023-03-15.
- ^ "Yann Couvreur, Goncourt de la pâtisserie". The Socialite Family (in French). Retrieved 2023-03-15.
- ^ "Lebey de la gastronomie 2014". Lebey (in French). 2014-02-27. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
- ^ à 11h51, Par L. D. Le 2 octobre 2017 (2017-10-02). "Salon du chocolat : les hipsters de la pâtisserie seront de la partie". leparisien.fr (in French). Retrieved 2023-03-15.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Yann Couvreur ouvre sa pâtisserie-salon de thé". www.sortiraparis.com. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
- ^ "Le chef pâtissier star Yann Couvreur s'implante à Dubaï". CNEWS (in French). Retrieved 2023-03-15.
External links[edit]
- Official website: Yann Couvreur Pâtisserie
- Books: La pâtisserie - Yann Couvreur