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Published on: 05/11/2026 - 18:30

How to make gastronomy accessible to everyone? With the “Rue du Goût Perdu” project, two young cooks organize solidarity gastronomic dinners to introduce the cuisine and flavors of yesteryear to the inhabitants of their neighborhood.

One Sunday, in a working-class district of Nanterre, the Pas 2 Quartier team for France 24 followed Yassine and Malik, two cooking enthusiasts, in the preparations for a gourmet dinner intended for residents of the Nanterre districts.

On the menu: prawns with parsley, roast chicken, parsley potatoes and desserts to share. Their idea? Bringing gastronomy into working-class neighborhoods and making it accessible to those who do not always have the opportunity to enter the doors of great restaurants.

They awaken the lost taste!

Launched a year earlier, the “Rue du Goût Perdu” team has a series of experiences, between catering services and solidarity restaurants. For this dinner, organized with the support of the town hall and financed thanks to a participatory budget of 5,000 euros, 80 people are invited to share a meal inspired by French gastronomy of the end of the 19th century.

At the origin of the project, two co-founders: Yassine Abdelmalek and Malik Fall. Both cut their teeth in large restaurants before launching their own initiative. Their ambition: to introduce gourmet cuisine to as many people as possible, without reserving it for a privileged clientele.

But “Rue du Goût Perdu” is also a story of memories. Over the course of dinner, locals talk about their Proust madeleine: tagines, lentils, fish soup or even the smell of coffee. So many childhood memories that remind us that cooking is also a matter of sharing and transmission.

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