The namesake operators of Bistro Barberet & Bakery are no longer involved with the award-winning restaurant they oversaw for 10 years in downtown Lancaster.
As of March 31, Cedric and Estelle Barberet have left the bakery/restaurant at 26 E. King St., according to Ben Frank, who owns the building and the business. Frank declined to give a reason for the change, saying it is “business as usual.”
“We had a great Restaurant Week last week. We’ve got big plans with Easter coming up. We’re just rocking and rolling,” Frank said.
Reached by phone, Cedric Barberet declined to comment.
“I don’t want to talk about anything right now,” he said. “My attorney already advised me not to talk to anyone and not to divulge any information at this point.”
The Barberets recently opened Barberet Coffee Shop in the lobby of Southern Market at 100 S. Queen St., where the menu includes coffee drinks as well as baked goods such as doughnuts, cookies and macarons. Cedric Barberet said the coffee shop, which was closed Wednesday, would be closed “for a couple weeks.”
Cedric Barberet, a native of Villefranche-sur-Saone outside Lyon, France, began his career working in his father’s pastry shop.
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Before moving to Lancaster, he worked at such prestigious restaurants as Le Bec-Fin and Buddakan in Philadelphia. He was executive pastry chef at Mar-a-Lago in West Palm Beach, Florida, and made the wedding cake for the marriage of President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump in 2005.
Cedric Barberet has received numerous restaurant industry awards. In 2016, he was named one of the top 10 pastry chefs in America by Dessert Professional Magazine. He became a member of the Académie Culinaire de France in 2011 and in 2017 was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre du Merite Agricole from the government of France for promoting French food, agriculture and culture through his work.
In 2023 he was honored by the venerable Academie Culinaire de France, which named him an Honored Academicien for his service to the academy’s mission of promoting French culinary culture in America.
Last year, the King Street restaurant was given the World’s French Restaurant designation by the French Association of Master Restaurateurs, which recognized it for being an authentic French restaurant that operates to certain standards. A plaque recognizing the award is mounted next to the restaurant’s entrance.
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