Raphaël Leclerc-Gileau and Brigitte Emond Serret didn't set out to make a statement with Plume. Not even with the name.
There were pigeons on the roof when Raphaël Leclerc-Gileau and Brigitte Emond Serret first walked through the space on Fairmount Ouest. Feathers on the doorstep every morning, then finding a collection of taxidermied birds in the basement a few months into the build, left behind by the Greek landlord who'd ran a commercial bakery called Kamenitsa out of the same address since the 1960s.
They'd already settled on the name by then, but sometimes a place just tells you what it wants to be called.
The two met at Bouillon Bilk about a decade ago—Raphaël sliding pieces of cheese and shiitake mushrooms across the pass to Brigitte—and spent years moving through known kitchens in the city before the conversation about doing something together got serious.
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