La Belle Sparkle on the M6: Is there really a restaurant in a TV movie?

On Thursday 5 October 2023 M6 airs new TV movie La Belle Spark from 9.10pm. Directed by Hervé Mimran and Béatrice Furnera and Carolyn Frans, audiences will find Mélanie Dutte, Bernard Campan, Lionel Astier and Gautier Gagnier in the lead roles in this fiction.

Melanie Doughty and Bernard Campan have reunited

Here, the story begins when Philippe Lamarck, a brilliant star chef with a complicated personality, faces a controversy that tarnishes his image… Then he enters the restaurant La Belle Étincelle to take charge of the kitchen.

He doesn’t know that this restaurant is not like the others… Virginie, the manager, has given Noah, his son with autistic disorder, permission to fulfill his dream and become a chef, establishing an inclusive restaurant and hiring only. Young people with cognitive disabilities.

Disturbingly, this fiction is inspired by real events. But does this establishment, La Belle Sparkle, really exist? The answer is yes! It is also located at 59 ave Pasteur in the 15th arrondissement of Paris.

A larger than life restaurant

Most of the workers in this structure have mental or cognitive disabilities. This spot protects, according to the official M6 press kit, “Qualitative Culinary Ambition and Human and Unifying Adventure”.

Restaurant La Belle Sparkle is With the support of the association Tremplin Extraordinaire, permanent employees with disabilities (autism spectrum disorders (ASD), Down syndrome, etc.) are employed.

Tremplin Extraordinaire is an association created in 2017, recognized as a common interest, whose goal is to promote the professional and social integration of people with disabilities. By the way, with the support of the Betancourt Schueller Foundation, the restaurant La Belle Étincelle is the first project of the association.“

Finally, for an anecdote, the real brigade of the institution appeared in the telefilm! La Belle Sparkle can therefore be discovered on Thursday 5 October from 9.10pm on the M6.