Chef Colombe St-Pierre, who has shelved her great fine-dining restaurant in Rimouski's Bic district, may be retiring from her career as a restaurateur.
“If I didn’t do Les Chefs last year! “If I had done that, I would have closed my restaurant,” the chef and owner of the renowned gourmet restaurant Chez Saint-Pierre confided to La vérité nature on Sunday evening.
“I don’t know how to get out of this,” she added, emphasizing the brutality of the restaurant environment. Because despite her reputation, her origins and the delicacy of her emblematic dishes, she still experiences the harshness of her surroundings.
“I still work 19 hours a day and have endured three pregnancies up to two days after delivery, with miscarriages as well… It gets a little extreme at some point,” she admitted.
In the coming years, the restaurateur could therefore dare to change careers and perhaps even enter politics.
When she founded her gourmet restaurant in Bas-Saint-Laurent, Colombe St-Pierre, who had always had a non-conformist spirit, found little support from her colleagues, as she also confided to Jean-Philippe Dion.
“They were wrong that I would screw up, but they were right that I would do shit,” she said later, laughing.
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