A new pastry shop opens a stone’s throw from one of Toulouse’s main markets
Through Lucie Fraissé
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Foodies should love this new address located just across the street from Carmelite market, a Toulouse. Gentina opened its doors on October 12: it is the second pastry shop in the Pink City carried by Bassim Jubran.
A first shop near Saint-Aubin
In 2015, the pastry chef opened his first shop near Saint-Aubin, avenue Maury. With this new address, he hopes to attract a clientele of individuals from the city center but also restaurateurs who could list the pastries. Gentina to their card.
“We favor seasonal products and short circuits. We also have essential classics such as chocolate and coffee éclairs or lemon tarts which are offered all year round in stores.”
At the start of autumn, for example, in the Exotic store, we find a delicious coconut mousse, passion fruit cream and mango coulis. For Halloween, Bassim Jubran will offer a pastry made from butternut and pumpkin
Homemade chocolates complete the offer and, this is a novelty, a savory catering offer for lunch: croque-monsieur with truffle, risotto with porcini mushrooms, etc.
Savory macaroons
“I also offer savory macaroons for these I have been rewarded in the French championship“, Explains the pastry chef. Goat cheese, foie gras or even white truffle.
Bassim Jurban studied with the three-star chef Anne-Sophie Pic, in Valence, and also worked at the Toulouse Stadium brewery, at Monsieur Georges or at Bibent, addresses collected from Toulouse.
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