2023-07-04 14:00:00
“Or you came back, or you left, saying that you would never come and eat at that idiot’s house once more, barefoot on the terrace.“With his exotic shirt and his mismatched shoes when he is not barefoot, chef Lucky Baufays is indeed a poem, à la cool, à la Seychelloise, his favorite destination.
While it might have celebrated its 20th anniversary this year, the Mas des Cigales, giving Provençal airs to rue Ferdinand Francot, had not reopened since the Covid. It is with a twinge of heart that the whole Floriffoux (and beyond) learned of the sale of the picturesque establishment, at the end of June. “It is for sale as a business or a house. I still dream of falling on the pearl, a couple why not, to give back the merit of the Mas des cigales: a small village restaurant with a soul. People didn’t just come to eat, they came to see me, to laugh.“… and sometimes taking it in the face, with his outspokenness, the chef did not let himself be done.
A few months ago, the dozens of ceramic cicadas and the decoration had been sold. “I would have liked to bounce back with a Herisseau-style hostel (Editor’s note. on the other side of the RN, also permanently closed). This is the concept to do. Expensive gourmet restaurants are everywhere. But there is no longer really an inn with, on the menu, a stew with carrots and a sausage, a pudding-compote, a marrow bone, a meunière veal brain… Dishes that you no longer see anywhere and that I try to bring back in my weekly boxes or that I propose au local supermarket. “
Life has not always spoiled him and the weight of the years is felt for one of the oldest restaurateurs in Namur (he had started as a clerk, at 14, at the Relais du Roi Louis, previous assignment of the white farm in Malonne), the chef withdraws from his open kitchen to concentrate on this activity of catering dishes and helping his peers, left to right. Without refraining, why not, from animating the village during small thematic parties such as Halloween or New Year’s Eve, on a smaller scale than its traditional summer mega-barbecue, which brought together several hundred guests and on which it seems to have definitely drawn a line.
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