Raymond Blanc Seasons Winter 2008/9

BRASSERIE BLANC RAYMOND BLANC’s SEASONS
Brasserie Blanc
the authentic brasserie experience
We all love to eat and enjoy ourselves in an authentic brasserie. But ﬁnding one in
Britain that offers the genuine brasserie experience has never been easy—until,
that is, Raymond Blanc launched his Brasserie Blanc, now in eight towns and cities
across the UK, with the very latest opening last month in Bristol. BY CHARLES FORD
I
f you travel around the country as much as I
do, you must have encountered the same
problem—where to eat at a modest price, with
excellent quality and a pleasant ambience? Is this
asking too much? Of course not, and the answer
is: at Brasserie Blanc. Yes, you can now ﬁnd
superb brasserie food and ambience served up
in Oxford, Cheltenham, Manchester, Tunbridge
Wells, Leeds, Milton Keynes, Winchester and,
just opened, in Bristol.
Relaxed enjoyment
Eight Brasserie Blancs, and counting! What is
Raymond’s raison d’etre here? “Brasserie Blanc
is a place for relaxed enjoyment where I can
offer you simple, high quality, seasonal food that
comes as close as possible to the meals that my
mother prepared for me at home in Besançon,”
“I want my Brasserie Blancs to be a central
he tells me, “and at a price that encourages you
part of the local community where you can
have fun and enjoy particularly good food,”
to visit us regularly.” And there’s more ...
says Raymond
“The real origins of French brasseries are lost
in time and probably in several litres of beer but
nowadays in France they are the bastions of
good eating and drinking, locally and informally. I
want my Brasserie Blancs to be a central part of
the local community where you can have fun and
enjoy particularly good food.”
Brasserie Blanc, Bristol
Just last month a new Brasserie Blanc opened
in the West Country, in Bristol, now very much
a happening city, so great timing for the locals
and for the city’s many visitors. The new
Brasserie Blanc is situated in the superb Grade
1 eighteenth-century Quaker Meeting House
that adjoins two stunning medieval halls, which
Raymond has acquired for banqueting purposes
— what a magniﬁcent setting!
“Yes, I was stunned when I saw these building
for the ﬁrst time,” says Raymond, “and when I
discovered that the halls had been used by
Bristol’s guilds of Bakers and Cutlers, it all
seemed to ﬁt perfectly.”
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