Pierre-Jea Chalençon and Christophe Leroy at the Palais Vivienne, October 29, 2020. – DIDIER AUDEBERT / LMS / SIPA
Oh dear, boss, I think this time it’s burnt! Since the affair of Pierre-Jean Chalençon’s clandestine dinners broke this weekend, the lively Leroy’s Business Club no longer takes reservations, and for good reason:
his website is down and his appointed leader,
Christophe Leroy, no longer responds.
“I have no restaurant”, he only slipped to the service CheckNews from Release. This is true, since the chef is in reality a private caterer and as such, he officiates for many clients, like his “friend” Pierre-Jean Chalençon.
Extract from the survey by @CheckNewsfr ✍🏻
Contacted by CheckNews, chef Christophe Leroy firmly denies any involvement: “I have no restaurant”.
Faced with the question on Instagram posts open for all to see, he prefers to end the conversation. ❌
– Release (@libe) April 4, 2021
When Libé still asks him the question of the photos published for all to see
on his Instagram account, in addition to those that have aroused the mockery of many Internet users, he prefers to end the conversation.
It is that Christophe Leroy may well be the ” chef friend of the stars », As it has been written here and there, the man is far from being a star of the kitchen. ”
Faithful to the great bourgeois cuisine of yesteryear »For the critic Gilles Pudlowski, he is best known for his career in the form of a more or less floating island.
His hour of glory, the 57-year-old Norman cook knew him in Saint-Tropez in the 1990s, where the jet-set frequented its restaurants more for the “white evenings” which were organized there than for the quality of its cuisine. . “It was rubbish”, remembers a regular. questioned by The Parisian, which notably cites asparagus served at Christmas – a spring product. And this regular to add: “Leroy had people in his restaurants every day. All these people, when they were having a party, called Christophe. He has always been interested in this universe, it made him shine, and above all, behind, there is money. “
But he quickly loses money, and a lot. At point no longer being able to pay its suppliers, partners, staff – and not only in Saint-Tropez, where this situation
provokes the anger of a Pamela Anderson, with whom he was to open a vegan restaurant in 2017 – but also in Avoriaz, Saint-Martin, Marrakech …
It is in Paris that he has been trying to bounce back in recent years, thanks to his address book provided. As a “caterer” through the Leroy’s Business Club, he organizes meal for two, four or six guests, discreetly. At least until the day when one of his “friends” Pierre-Jean Chalençon decides to advertise him which he would probably have done well without.