The Odas
Olivier Da SilvaOlivier Da Silva has a maverick yet laid-back side, convinced that cooking is a school of rigor and perseverance but that it can be practiced without taking oneself too seriously. Originally from Lille, he has kept from his mother, a cook, and his father, a butcher, the taste for work.
“At 15, I gave a hand in a restaurant that my parents knew. The pace was fast but I was immediately hooked.”
After sharpening his knives betweenNormandy and Belgium, he earned a first star, in 2010, while officiating at the restaurant Les Jardins d’Épicure, in Val-d’Oise. He then decided to open his own address in Rouen with refined cuisine that made him reach the star again.