Passionately tart

Olivier Lainé is a pastry Chef and a teacher at the Ritz Escoffier School.

A native of Brittany, Olivier Lainé's passion for gastronomy was passed on to him by his father, and he was introduced to pastry-making at an early age, while attending his first training course. Stimulated by this experience, he went on to earn a vocational degree in pastry (CAP-BEP Pâtissier) at the Lycée Louis Guilloux, where two encounters particularly left a mark on him: that of Eric Fillatre, his first teacher, and then that of Laurent le Daniel, Best Craftsman of France (MOF) in the pastry-making category.

Olivier Lainé then began his professional career in Cannes, at the 2-Michelin-starred Oasis restaurant, where he worked extensively on taste combinations and on an innovative approach to pastry-making. He then returned to Brittany to open a family restaurant: for 5 years he combined pastry-making with entrepreneurship. His fondness for the world of pastry shops led him to return to Paris, where he worked at the famous Café Pouchkine, then at the Shangri-La palace, where he worked alongside Michael Bartocetti.

As he started gaining experience though the years, training and the transmission of knowledge became extremely important to the Chef. So, in 2018, he decided to devote himself fully to the world of teaching and became an instructor at the prestigious Ritz-Escoffier School.

For VoilaChef, Olivier Lainé passes on his passion for pastry excellence with pedagogy and precision: a soft Savoy cake with a heart of candied apples, a delicate and subtle tartlet with exotic fruit notes and an elegant flower-shaped dessert with perfectly balanced flavors of chocolate, pecan and exotic fruit.