Coming from a Belgian family where they are pastry chefs from father to son, Marc De Canck fell into flour, cream, spices and chocolate from a very young age. Apprentice, then pastry chef-baker, he worked his way into the catering industry. Curious and greedy, he tastes the sauces, tastes the meats, smells the fish and slowly shifts from pastry chef to cook. Passionate, the young man quickly climbed the career ladder, but the European system imposed too much control on him; he is suffocating. He wants to travel the world and it is finally in Quebec that he comes to find a bit of non-conformist. His talent was recognized from the outset and the establishments where he worked quickly joined the firmament of the best. In 1995, he opened his restaurant in a small premises on Avenue Laurier, in less than a year, La Chronique became an essential address