She is putting her business and its building up for sale to spend more time with family, in particular her four\u002Dyear\u002Dold son and mother.
will close Aug. 15, prompting a flood of warm wishes from surprised peers and customers.
While Foucault, who grew up in Vanier and Hull, is a self-taught chef who started working in Hull restaurants as a teenager, she represented the Ottawa area at the 2014 Canadian Culinary Championships. Foucault also briefly had a second small restaurant in Gatineau called Odile. But Foucault closed it in the summer of 2013, 15 months after it opened, because she was overworked and uncompromising about the quality of the food at both restaurants.Article content“I’m feeling overwhelmed,” she said. “I’m a perfectionist and I want to do things right.”
She said she hopes “something nice” will take Edgar’s place, for the good of its surrounding Val-Tétreau neighbourhood. Among the food lovers with Dutch Baby-sized holes in their hearts is Ottawa restaurateur Steve Beckta, who responded on Instagram to Foucault’s news: “This is so sad, yet so inspiring…taking the time and space you need for yourself right now. You have been such a force in our industry Marysol, and Edgar and Odile have such a huge place in so many hearts.”
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