By Lucie Fraisse
Published on 23 Jan 21 at 12:14
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The #takeawaychallenge it is a challenge launched to the chefs of Toulouse by Rodolphe Lafarge, a culinary influencer from the Pink City, who officiates on social networks under the name of rodnroll.
Many Toulouse restaurants participate in the exercise
–The principle of this challenge launched last November on social networks? Each week Rodolphe Lafarge offers a street-food-oriented theme, which restaurant owners use to offer take-away meals. Cooking around flowers, dumplings, on the New York theme… The chefs can give free rein to their imagination around the suggestions of the Toulouse culinary influencer.
And the exercise has seduced in many kitchens in Toulouse (and beyond): prestigious restaurants like the Drink, solid, La promenade or even Roses and nettles notably participated.
In a program presented by Laurent Romejko
After a few weeks of hiatus during the end of the year celebrations, the #takeawaychallenge has just resumed in mid-January. And benefited from a national spotlight: the challenge made in Toulouse will soon be highlighted on the set of Weather on the map, a program broadcast every day on France 3 and presented by Laurent Romejko.
“It was the show’s production team that contacted me,” explains Rodolphe Lafarge. The team came to shoot in Toulouse on Wednesday January 20, 2021, in the kitchens of the restaurant La Pente Douce and in those of Bibent. The show should be broadcast by early February.
Pushing the limits of creativity
–Yann Ghazal, the head of so, therefore played the game of the cameras and made his dumpling recipe – the challenge of the week – under the watchful eye of the Météo à la une teams. A takeaway falafel recipe that has also been very well received by customers of the restaurant on the Place du Capitole.
“We were surprised, we had a very big request! »Smiles Yann Ghazal, who with his teams, the Toulouse chef very regularly participates in the #takeawaychallenge. “I find that it allows chefs to push their limits and it gives surprising results! »
Recipes from the #takeawaychallenge integrated into the menu
Since the second confinement and the closure of restaurants, the Bibent has been one of the Toulouse institutions that have largely developed the take-out sale, dear to the #takeawaychallenge, even setting up its own delivery service, in parallel with the usual platforms.
“When we found out that the restaurants were going to close, we sat down around a table and thought about it,” explains the chef of Bibent. Take-out was a field that we had never explored, it was gradually established and today, we have mastered the subject. Of course, we will continue to do so, even when the restaurant can reopen. “
And when that day arrives, some recipes imagined in the fun and creative framework of the #takeawaychallenge will find themselves on the Bibent menu. Proof that the crisis could also have given rise to great stories …
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