The 3-star establishment received the approval of the Savoir-faire 100% Côte-d’Or brand from the hands of François Sauvadet on Friday 8 July. Restaurant chef Ralf Mestre has now become an ambassador.
“The Central is the place where we meet for the big decisions”. And for François Sauvadet, president of the Côte-d’Or Department, the gesture that was going to be made on Friday July 8, 2022 at midday was not just symbolic. Ralf Mestre, chef of the Central, the restaurant of the 3-star Ibis Styles hotel, place Grangier in Dijon, officially became ambassador of the Savoir-faire 100% Côte-d’Or brand, at the same time as the establishment received the approval.
“It’s a commitment to an approach”
“It’s not just the delivery of an approval, it’s a commitment to a process. It is to create a movement of recognition around qualitative criteria and respectful of the environment, to promote products resulting from the productions of Côte-d’Or, in an approach also of high environmental value. It is a brand that engages our collective image of the Côte-d’Or and which must be respectful of all those who have undertaken this process”, repeated François Sauvadet, assuring that a very clair is respected and recalling that “to buy 100% Côte-d’Or is to participate in the economic activity of the department”.
At the hotel-restaurant on the same day, the eighth brand approval committee was held. The president of the Department of Côte-d’Or insisted on a strengthened, expanded dynamic.
In particular were present the two vice-presidents of the Department Marc Frot and Marie-Claire Bonnet-Vallet, also president of Côte-d’Or Attractif, but also the cheese maker Philippe Delin, the president of the union of artisans bakers and pastry chefs of Côte -d’Or David Nogueira, Stéphane Derbord, representing the cooks of Côte-d’Or, Elisabeth Mayol, vice-president of the Chamber of trades and crafts, and Isabelle Grandin, general secretary of the UMIH.
The Department of the Côte-d’Or intends “that this brand shines and that it participates in making the Côte-d’Or attractive”. The ambassadors of 100% Côte-d’Or know-how should meet for a promotional operation in Paris, during the next agricultural show. Echoing the culinary works of Takashi Kinoshita, chef of the restaurant at the Château de Courban, an operation in Japan is even envisaged, “to express the pride we have in counting among us the most Côte-d’Orien of the Japanese”, affirmed Francois Sauvadet.
Ralf Mestre says thank you to the producers
Ralf Mestre is the brand’s seventh ambassador. For the chef, it is above all thanks to the producers that the beautiful and tasty compositions on the plates are possible. “I grew up with that in the countryside, my role was to fetch milk from the farm. We had a neighbor who made chickens, we had eggs, a vegetable garden, my mother cooked. The local was my daily life when I grew up in the Gers. It’s in my nature to go see people and in Côte-d’Or there are people who do a remarkable job.
The Hôtels Bourgogne Qualité group, owner of the Ibis Styles – Le Central, is proud to be committed to the 100% Côte-d’Or approach, a guarantee of “high quality” according to Michel Jacquier. “What makes us live today is the recognition of those we like to receive,” added the group president and president of the UMIH.
For the formalization of the approval and now dressed as an ambassador of the 100% Côte-d’Or brand, Ralf Mestre offered as a starter a crispy lentil, coral and green lentil, from the Bray farm of Jérôme Cornemillot, a trout and salmon from the fountains of Sylvain Tscherter, smoked by the chef and his team.
The prime rib came from Etienne Fournier, accompanied by a tarragon sabayon and new potatoes. The Brillat Savarin truffles from Accordinggey came from Patrice Habigand, the strawberry shortbread from Philippe Marande.
Blackcurrant fruit paste, honey tuile and crème brûlée with Flavigny anise punctuated the menu.
Alix Berthier
Photos: Alix Berthier
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