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One hot Friday afternoon, I found myself cooling off in the opulent, old-fashioned surroundings of Claude’s Le Café de Ville, a bistro in downtown Davao that has grown to become one of the best French restaurants in these shores. I was there to meet Alex Le Neindre, a promising young chef-in-the-making who is being groomed to take over his family’s dining empire.
As the only son of Claude Le Neindre—easily one of Davao’s finest chefs—the Filipino-French 20-year-old clearly has some pretty big shoes to fill. And Alex, not one to rest on his family’s laurels, is the first person to agree with that.
As I feasted on sumptuous French specialties created by the budding chef himself, Alex humbly let me in on the charms and challenges, the perks and pitfalls of being heir to the city’s dining royalty.
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