We are a food & wine club I would like to take this opportunity to warmly welcome you to La Chaine des Rôtisseurs, Canberra Bailliage. We are affiliated with The International Chaîne des Rôtisseurs, a society dedicated to preserving the traditions of fine dining, traditions that go back in French history to the 13th century. The Chaîne des Rôtisseurs, an international gastronomic society, founded in Paris in 1950, traces its origins back to 1248. At that time, the French King Louis IX (later canonized as Saint Louis) wishing to thank the trades which had contributed to the construction of Sainte Chapelle, ordered the establishment of several professional guilds, one of which was the "Oyeurs" or goose roasters. The vocation of this guild was to improve the technical knowledge of its members: apprentices, tradesmen and masters. Over the decades its activities and privileges were expanded. For more than four centuries the ‘Confrérie des Rôtisseur' cultivated and developed the culinary arts, meeting all the requirements of professionalism and quality demanded by the "Royal Table", until 1793 when the guild system was dissolved during the French Revolution. The Rôtisseurs were completely forgotten until 1950, when Dr. Auguste Bécart, the well-known journalists Jean Valby and Curnonsky (elected "Prince of the Gastronomes"), and chefs Louis Giraudon and Marcel Dorin revived the association and founded the "Confrérie de la Chaîne des Rôtisseurs". In Australia we have local ‘chapters’ or Bailliages in Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, New South Wales and Queensland. In Queensland we have Bailliages on the Darling Downs, Gold Coast, Brisbane, Sunshine Coast and Cairns. One of the most distinctive feature of La Chaine de Rôtisseurs is that its membership is open to both professional and non-professional members. La Chaine Membership comes with range of benefits including fine dining events in the best local restaurants and hotels with menus created exclusively for our members, internationally recognised memberships; this means you are most welcome to attend a La Chaine function anywhere in the world, and plenty more.
