French magic at Water’s Edge
View(s):Having given Colombo the taste of ‘Italian Altarmarca’ – spit roast , a culinary delight by Bocuse d’Or winner Chef Roland Debuyst, ‘Water’s Edge’ is once again ready to create an environment for the culinary savvy to all French food lovers to taste and experience authentic ‘French cuisine’. The arrival of Chef Florent Boivin in August will create a little bit of French magic when he will present a unique five course ‘set dinner’ especially designed and crafted to the ‘Chaine des Rotisseurs’ connoisseurs on the 15th of August.
Chef Florent Boivin
Training to be a chef at 14 years he got his first job as a chef at ‘Maison Decoret’ a restaurant owned by Michelin star Chef Jacques Decoret. Having learned related techniques over a period of 2 years he joined the Pourcel Brothers at ‘Le Jardin des Sens’ – a 3 star Michelin hotel and restaurant located in Montpellier, South of France where the Pourcel brothers themselves are “Grand Chefs Relais et Châteaux’.
He then joined the famous 3 Michelin star french haute cuisine restaurant – the ‘Maison Troisgros’ as Head Chef. This was in the year 2007 when he was only 28 years. In 2011 Chef Florent Boivin received the prestigious ‘Meilleurs Ouvriers de France’ (MOF) award. The title of MOF conferred once every four years is a unique and prestigious award in France. To the French nationals a MOF title holder means that he or she is undoubtedly ‘One of the Best Craftsmen of France’.
Today, Chef Boivin is a Professor/Instructor & Head Chef at the ‘Institut Paul Bocuse’ and Culinary Consultant & Advisor for his company FB COUNCIL MOF. ‘It gives me great pleasure to have a professional of his stature who takes inspirations from different experiences, restaurants and chefs he worked with, and interprets them with his own common sense to promote and share the fine art of gastronomy with those who share similar values of quality of the culinary arts’ said Chef Rohan Fernandopulle, the General Manager of the Waters Edge.