Toulouse. A former Capitol Theater opens an opera-style tea room in the city center
Through Quentin Marais
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Mixing the world of opera and pastry: this is the challenge that David Godfroid, with his company Véronique Soum. An opera-style tea room will open its doors, rue des Tourneurs, in Toulouse, on Wednesday, December 15, 2021.
From the opera to the tea room
He has been a conductor and conductor for 20 years at the Théâtre du Capitole. She is a cellist and pastry chef. David Godfroid and Véronique Soum have linked their passions to open a tea room on rue des Tourneurs.
“I’ve been wanting to set up an opera bar for 20 years, where we play opera live,” says the first. I wanted to create a place where I wanted to discover opera to everyone. ”
The premises of a former salad factory have been bought and transformed “into a very elegant tea room, something we have chosen that we are not used to seeing in Toulouse in normal times …”
With my company, we got to know each other in this orchestra, it’s from there that we said to ourselves that we had the possibility of doing something together, around music and cakes, we is a fan of cake and tea room. So on one combined our two passions!
The song will never be far away
The frame will obviously be dedicated to opera. “We will find there the great curtain of the theater, some chairs of Louis XVI… The opera music will cover the period of the baroque, until the beginning of the XIX.e century ”, reveals David Godfroid.
Who will want to involve the client. ” I will do singing workshops, once or twice a month, I will teach them to sing the opera aria, for an hour. This is something I was already doing at the Théâtre du Capitole. ”
Regarding meals, at noon, it will be soup to start the winter, with pies: the chicken pie with an Icelandic sauce will be the spearhead! Then there will be a flying pie, that will change a little every day: it will be a duck pie, of confit. Then, there will be two salads which will turn.
David Godfroid warns: “There will be no fixed card. The products will rotate according to the seasonality. But everything will be prepared on site, including the pastry and dough production ”.
40 seats, 10 on the terrace
In total, the tea room will cover an area of 90m². “There are 40 seats, and 10 on terraces, when the weather is nice,” the conductor counts.
The couple hired a pastry chef and a waiter. “I even think that we will start at five, since we will be in full Christmas rush: if there are people, at 3 in service, it will be not bad”, smiles the conductor.
Practical information
Tea room, 60 rue des Tourneurs
Open Wednesday, December 15
Tuesday: 2 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Wednesday: 11:45 a.m.-6 p.m.
Thursday: 11:45 a.m.-6 p.m.
Friday: 11:45 a.m.-6 p.m.
Saturday: 11:45 a.m.-6 p.m.
Sunday: 11:45 a.m., unlimited brunch
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