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Inside the kitchen of Yannick Bigourdan, owner of Lucie and the Carbon Bar
Featuring a fancy mustard collection, canned wine and century-old glassware.
Toronto Life’s Kitchen Diaries series visited Yannick’s home kitchen in King City. The piece is a small portrait of how a working operator eats off-shift — the fancy mustards stocked like a working pantry, the bourbon collection that quietly replaced the wine cellar, the century-old glassware brought out on purpose for the pour that warrants it.
Jessica Huras’s profile reads less as a celebrity-kitchen tour than a study in the small disciplines a long-form hospitality career trains into the home.
We love cooking together. We don't really have to talk. She knows what she has to do and I know what I have to do.
— Yannick Bigourdan, in Toronto Life
Opening a full bottle of wine at home didn't make sense anymore, but I still wanted to collect something. I've always loved bourbon, so I made a switch.
— Yannick Bigourdan, in Toronto Life
When I have a glass of bourbon, I really want to enjoy it, so I have special glassware.
— Yannick Bigourdan, in Toronto Life