As a child in Belgium, Coumont spent countless hours perched on a chair, watching his grandmother make bread.
In 1977, after a voyage to the United States, where he was impressed by the success of Michel Guérard, he abandoned his classical studies and enrolled in the Hotel School of Namur in Belgium.
[1] Passionate about quality, he returned to his roots and opened a small bakery where he could knead flour, salt and water into the rustic loaves of his childhood.
Coumont opened his bakery in rue Antoine Dansaert in Brussels in 1990,[1] in those days an avant-garde quarter of Belgian fashion.
Alain Coumont share his time between New York City and his farm/organic food research and training center in the Languedoc region in the south of France Alain Coumont also created Le Botaniste, a plant-based fast casual restaurant concept and natural wine bar, 100% organic and 100% botanical (vegan), and gluten free; the first restaurant opened in Ghent, Belgium in September 2015.
With the success of the two first locations, the company decided to expand so a third opened at 127 Grand street in New York City in November 2017, a fourth in August 2018 in Brussels, Belgium in the EU Schuman area.