Yoann Conte, from sport to two-Michelin-star cuisine, from Brittany to Haute-Savoie
You come here for an experience. Rediscover flavors you thought you knew. Yoann Conte's Maison Bleue, on the shores of Lake Annecy, where Baouw was born, invites you on a culinary journey where vegetables are the star. Its two-Michelin-star chef has been sailing between sea and mountains since childhood. His menus are inspired by this. The marriage of the aquatic and the vegetable. From Breton simplicity to that of mountain people, there was only one step, and Yoann took it. Yoann Conte is the chef who concocts your Baouw recipes. He's also our menhir. Our rock. The one who always stays “right in his boots” (as a sailor? Or a gardener?). Discover the background of this extraordinary chef, his involvement as co-founder of Baouw and how it all started for him with meals for children, thanks to a band of majorettes who stole from his till! your textInterview with this Baouw athlete, as discreet as he is committed, who tells us about his brother, sport and his values (which Baouw shares with him).
TALENTED RISE
After training at the Savoie-Leman hotel school, Yoann Conte's generous, local, hard-working cuisine has earned him one award after another in his restaurant “La Maison Bleue”:
- 2 Michelin stars since 2013
- 5 toques at Gault & Millau in 2021 and 2022
- voted best chef of the year 2023 by the Gault & Millau guide
In addition to running his prestigious restaurant, Yoann and his two co-founders (Gilles Galoux and Benoit Nave) are helping to make Baouw a unique model of quality in the world of organic sports nutrition.
He is inspired by their shared deep-seated convictions: a taste for good things and a quest for meaning.
“My head is always buzzing! I've got a passion a minute... we're not going to get bored!”
Her talent and innovative ideas enable Baouw to create ever more gourmet recipes, using carefully selected products to meet the codes of healthy, .
ALSO A JUROR ON A PRESTIGIOUS COOKING SHOW
Who better to judge candidates' technique and talent than Yoann Conte?
He's putting his expertise at the disposal of the young recruits to this iconic culinary series by joining the team of jurors alongside Philippe Etchebest and Juan Arbeláez, for the 2023 season. As usual, he'll be outspoken and kind-hearted in guiding the contestants. For this ninth edition, the Michelin-starred chefs opt for blind tastings, forcing the contestants to distinguish themselves through their technical skills. It's only at the ultimate national final that chefs Philippe Etchebest, Yoann Conte and Juan Arbeláez will reveal the overall winner, who will join the ranks of France's top chefs!
Yoann Conte crowned with 5 Toques Gault & Millau!
On November 29, 2021, the Gault & Millau award ceremony was held at the Pavillon d'Armenonville in Paris. The evening spotlighted a host of talented chefs, pastry chefs and sommeliers. Our chef Yoann Conte was awarded 5 Toques Gault et Millau with a score of 19/20! He joins the prestigious circle of 16 exceptional French restaurants. A magnificent reward for Yoann, who works daily with talent to prepare our Baouw recipes.
baouw, a taste for adventure, ultra-natural recipes
“At the time, I was a trail runner and I ran the UTMB, I had bought a disgusting brand that I won't name. After a while, my palate was over-saturated with sweet tastes. It was really too chemical for me, and really, after a while, I was disgusted by the sweet taste. As a consumer, as a sportsman, I didn't have much to eat. So when I was offered a job in sports nutrition, I said yes straight away. In fact, I did even more than that! I invested right away in the adventure. What I'd tried up to that point, as sports nutrition, might have given you a boost, yes, as it promised, but behind it, you were immediately bamboozled, because it was a poorly managed, badly calibrated energy.I was very honored to have been chosen for the Baouw project, to tell the truth. I don't even really know why it was me. Perhaps at the time I had a certain humility that appealed? In any case, I jumped right in and, in fact, my wife Élodie and I made a financial investment in the creation of the Baouw brand, because the project really interested me. Adventure! There's a lot of fun in this Baouw adventure. It got me out of the kitchen a bit. The “Go out and play” message worked for me. I myself needed to eat properly, healthily, when exerting myself. I'm proud to be wearing a brand like this today. Now I finally have something interesting to offer as a consumer.”
