{"id":5914,"date":"2016-10-17T14:52:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T02:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queenstownlife.com\/?p=5914"},"modified":"2016-10-17T14:53:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T02:53:30","slug":"a-taste-of-france-with-charlie-brown-crepes-wanaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/queenstownlife.com\/2016\/10\/a-taste-of-france-with-charlie-brown-crepes-wanaka\/","title":{"rendered":"A taste of France with Charlie Brown Crepes, Wanaka"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n A taste of France with Charlie Brown Crepes, Wanaka<\/p>\n France seems so far away when you live on the other side of the world. I remember my travels there and in particular have some fond memories of the food that I gobbled up on the streets and restaurants. Usually found frequenting the bakeries I took a large fancy for crepes and their velvety softness. Breakfast, lunch and dinner could be sorted with these beauties and I particularly loved them with nuts and chocolate drizzled all over them.<\/p>\n Charles Scarceriaux is one such frenchman bringing crepes to the streets and hungry tums of Wanaka. I ambled <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n I caught up with Charles and asked him about his life, his travels and his caravan.<\/p>\n Who are you? Where do you come from?<\/span><\/p>\n I am a 26 year old guy born in Belgium and I grew up\u00a0in South of France in a small mountain village ” Seillans” in the French Riviera.<\/p>\n Why the crepes? Why the caravan?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n I have a sweet tooth, crepes is a family thing, and\u00a0before studying photography<\/span><\/a> I studied to be a pastry chef in Nice.<\/p>\n Before Wanaka\u00a0I sold some crepes in Australia (for one day, just for Christmas at the side of the road)\u00a0and later on in India (Nagaland) while I was there to work for a festival, and it worked pretty well. French food is internationally recognised.<\/p>\n After those experience I wanted to do it properly…I wanted a project which will permit me to save up some money to finance my photographic portfolio.To finance that I took all I had… and even sold my professional camera gear for it. So, as I like to challenge myself, I decided to build a caravan and ship it to New Zealand. I had never been to New Zealand before that. \u00a0It took me 7\u00a0months to built the caravan in Seillans and I learned a lot from it. It is actually the second caravan… The first I bought collapse on the road while I was driving it….<\/p>\n Charlie Brown came about as it is a nick name from I when I was a little kid, and if I gave it a French name no-one would remember.<\/p>\n Where does your love for the food come from?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n I learned at school when I was 4 or 5 how to make chocolate\u00a0profiterolles and I fell in love with them. Since then I have never stopped making and eating desserts.\u00a0\u00a0And also from my grandmother who always made lovely waffles or apricot tarts.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n What is in your future? Tell me some more about your photography<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n After New Zealand (In June when my visa is up)\u00a0I am going to travel to South America for a year doing some photography over there. Then will be back in Asia for a while… I do love Asia! I have no fixed plan, I just know that I am not going to do a 9 to 5 job.<\/p>\n I forgot to mention that I am a portrait photographer<\/span><\/a>, I love peoples faces and their cultures. So much to learn from it! So I travel as much as I can, every $$ goes towards my travels… meeting new people, new cultures, new tribes\u2026<\/p>\n How did you end up in Wanaka?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n I came with a tourist visa, so I had three months to travel in New Zealand and while enjoying the beauty of NZ I was looking for great place to stay before my caravan arrived in Auckland. I was driving through Wanaka before heading to Queenstown. And I just felt this was\u00a0THE PLACE TO BE.<\/p>\n What are you favourite things to do there?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Walking around the lake or in the hills. I can’t get enough of the stunning views!! Everyday I have the same feeling as I when I came the first time.<\/p>\n Whats your favourite crepe?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n The “Pomme d’amour” – the home made caramelized apple with the caramel sauce and the whipped cream are just so yummy, I can’t get enough!!!<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n It’s so amazing to meet people like Charles who are passing through and working hard to make something new and exciting. I love small but mighty businesses like this. They are the heart of our transient towns, people who have dreams and live here and enjoy our beautiful land.<\/p>\n Also it helps when they make food like this.<\/p>\n Charlie Brown is now in Wanaka. Go and fill your tummy full of crepes and say hello!<\/p>\n Charlie Brown Open: 11.30-9pm (closed Monday)<\/p>\n Facebook<\/span><\/a> Which one is your favourite? What other types of French food do you like?<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\nran as fast as I could<\/del> to Charlie Brown’s<\/span><\/a> and tried out the ‘Charlie Brown’, banana, homemade butter salted caramel (swoon), walnut and whipped cream. (I know I know your mouth is watering).<\/p>\n
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