The gastronomic restaurant of the Château Saint-Jean, in Montluçon, is located in the old chapel of this residence built by the Knights of the Order of Malta. Olivier Valade offers traditional cuisine, all in finesse and lightness.
During the summer, the castle is full.“It’s the season for us, the period when we have the most customers and when we express ourselves best. Because it’s the sun and all the vegetables that are going well. I’ve always bathed in cooking, since my childhood on the family farm. I remember that we killed the pig every year. That’s where my passion for the simple, the real, the good came from.”
If he admits having had the revelation of cooking at the hotel school in Souillac, not far from Brive, it is therefore his childhood that gave him the taste for it. After his training, this Briviste followed a fine career, between the kitchens of Matignon, the Louis XV in Monaco, the Bernard Loiseau relay, before becoming starred in Metz, then in Brittany, and again here in Montluçon since 2020.
Olivier Valade invites you on the show, to spend a friendly and cool moment on a beautiful summer evening, to prepare a seasonal dish, with a vegetable with summer and anise flavors: “The fennel, raw, in a salad, grated last minute, a little lemon juice, olive oil, ginger, Espelette pepper, it’s fresh, I love it…”
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