Inheritance
Cooking is a family story in arms. An inheritance that Sébastien has taken up a little one, with the wish to always pay tribute to him.
From Angèle to Michel
Affectionately nicknamed "Mémé arm", Angèle Bras acquired a modest workers' restaurant in Laguiole in 1956. A mother offering "a tasty housewife" of her son's confession, Michel. An early initiation for this self -taught, very early in the kitchen to help her mother. A necessity at the start, later became the common thread of a life for Michel Bras, guided as much by his sense of contemplation as by his endless desire for experimentation.
With his wife Ginette, he took over the maternal restaurant in Laguiole in 1968, thus tracing his own path to a kitchen turned towards nature and aubrac, with this desire to make it discover a contemporary expression. In 1992, he created the hotel restaurant Le Suquet at the top of a dominant hill Laguiole. A "madness" as Michel will admit later. His sleek, daring, sincere, innovative cuisine will be greeted by the whole world and still marks many cooks and passionaters.
From Michel to Sébastien
Lulled by the noise of the pans and the scent of the broths that sneaned up to his room, located above the kitchens, Sébastien made his ranges on the family piano from an early age. No time for Sébastien to take his own. On the verge of leaving for San Francisco, a cook diploma in pockets acquired at the Paul Bocuse Institute, he cannot resist the call of the country which needs his most lively forces for the opening of the Suquet. Father and son then weave this relationship of trust and sometimes of distrust, but are aware that they share the same vision and sensitivity, that of a kitchen off the beaten track, but full field, shaped by a territory and kneaded of generosity. Since that founding day when his strawberry and rhubarb toast, Sébastien, alone in controls since 2009, has, in continuity, imposed his emotions and wrote his score.
A family story
At the origin of the adventure, "Mémé arm", Angèle, who continued to spin the aligot, a reassuring presence for her son Michel in the kitchen for a long time. Then, Michel and Ginette installed their hotel restaurant on the Sucouquet hill and made it a high place of gastronomy. Finally Sébastien and Véronique who now officiate in this place where they also live, on this set dear to their hearts so much operates the magic of the place.
The inheritance tribute
Without a desire to deny the past, but with on the contrary an immense respect for this family repertoire which he constantly evolves, Sébastien reinvents recipes which have become mythical like that of the chocolate flow of 1981.
He was imagined by Michel who managed to transcribe the comfort of a hot chocolate after a cold day of skiing, through a warm cylindrical cookie, containing liquid chocolate ready to spread spoon. Sébastien Bras continues to pay tribute in a thousand ways to the cult dessert by exciting interpretations around caramel, coffee, fruit, apricot, blueberry, fig or even asparagus ... As for the gargoyillou of young vegetables, initiatory dish, real vegetable fireworks of flavors and colors that brings together more than 60 shoots, seeds and flowers ... Malicious Gargouillou of young summer raw vegetables.