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Gaël Arcuset
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“We do like at home, I don’t know if that’s how you have to do …” “Yes, yes, it’s like that. »Friday August 15, 2025, 8:30 am. In the still brand new room of The hotel-restaurant Le Brennusnot far from the toll of the A 62 motorway, in Langon (Gironde) a family calmly savor their breakfast after a night on the spot. Only two days that the establishment has already opened, and the tables are filled. This place is simply the new baby of Bruno Celhay – Titi for friends – Who also leads the boat to lock 52, on the banks of the Garonne Canal in Castets-et-Castillon, and to the Langonnais cap, in the heart of Langon, on the Jean-Jaurès alleys. At seventy spring, the old first line of the Langonnais stadium could sit in the shade of the plane trees and let time spin. But this Charismatic figure of the region prefers to be in the fray. Stay your arms crossed? Not really the kind of house …
South Girondin has decided to afford A new challengeone more. To a handful of meters from where it all started … “Forty years ago, I started right next to it, at the corkscrew,” he recalls. I went from 6 rue des Bruyères to number 2. ”
About twenty employees in Brennus, in Langon
Now, he is at the head of the Le Brennus hotel (32 rooms) and his restaurant, the Brennus table. Names well found, almost obvious for this great passionate of ovalia who made the beautiful hours of Langon Red and White, a few years ago. For Titi Celhay, opens a new chapter : that of the hotel industry. A universe he discovers, he who knows by heart the rules of the gaming in catering.
To carry out this adventure, he surrounded himself with a director who worked in “Big houses”, with solid experience in the profession. Nearly twenty people are busy Here, from reception to cleaning, from cooking to the bar.
When Alain Lafforgue [P.-D.G. de Langon Distribution, ndlr] came to see me to tell me that the Horus was for sale, I jumped at the opportunity. I flashed on it.
If Titi responds present, it is also out of loyalty to his land. “I didn’t want a group to settle here. I was keen to keep the Langonnaise identity. »»
Et This identity is felt From the step of the door crossed. Carefully aligned raw bottles are exposed in an elegant structure.
Further on, other bottles proudly sit in a glass furniture, accompanied by boxes so that customers can extend the trip to them. “Yes, we also offer boxes, presents Titi Celhay. We really wanted people, when they arrive here, understand that they are in the Graves and the Sauternais. »»
“We have done everything”
Decoration, neat down to the smallest detailuse the familiar shades of the Langonnais cap. The old Horus is now transformed. “We have done everything. The work had started at the start of the year. Given the magnitude of the site, it was quickly, not enough for me, but quickly anyway, ”slips the Langonnais restaurateur, with a look full of mischief.
From the main room (50 covers), customers can even Enjoy a direct view of the kitchen. An opening wanted by Titi, who likes to see his team at work, trying to prepare a hill of Holstein beef baked with the lava stone “for an intact flavor”, a tataki of smoked beef with dried pepper, a burrata or a gravlax salmon.
More away, we find A 50 -covered roomintended to welcome seminars. Here, soon, should stay rugby players from the Olympic Castres and the Rochelais stadium. What give it, you can easily imagine, smile at the former player of the Langonnais stadium.
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