Chef Emmanuel Roux has been involved with creating, making and enjoying delicious food throughout his life.

He was born and raised in Tunisia on a farm very rich in history. It was built over a Roman villa and was also the site of a major battlefield during the second World War.

His parents, French expatriates, owned the farm. In 1961, the Roux family moved back to France. He studied in France, in England and more specifically hotel management in Switzerland. He sailed the world while serving in the French Navy on the famed helicopter carrier Jeanne d’Arc. Roux also worked for an American oil research company in desolate parts of the Sahara in Algeria, Niger, and Mali in Africa.

In 1975 Roux moved to New York as general manager of the Lotos Club – an exclusive arts and literature private club, one of the oldest in Manhattan. In 1979 he moved to Savannah, Georgia where he founded Gaston Dupre Inc., the first high-end flavored gourmet pasta company.

Since 1993, Emmanuel Roux has owned several restaurants in St Petersburg, Florida. It was in these restaurants where he refined his version of the classic French flour-less chocolate cake. After numerous requests from his regulars and friends, Emmanuel began selling his cake directly to chocolate lovers.

Food has been a life-passion, and he has an extensive knowledge of agriculture, food production, distribution and cooking and enjoying the fruit of his labors. He particularly enjoys entertaining and sharing a good glass of wine with new and old friends. You can read some of his blog postings on this site.

Emmanuel spends his free time cultivating two organic community gardens which he was instrumental in developing and where he is raising small flocks of urban chickens. He is a vocal advocate of permaculture and urban agriculture. He also serves on the board of the Tampa Bay Slow Food chapter. He continues to live in St. Petersburg with his wife Jennifer. Both, appropriately, care for a chocolate lab named Max.

Our delicious flour free chocolate cakes are perfect gifts for special occasions, birthdays, a simple thank you, or a celebration. If you work in a profession in which you need to create a memorable experience, a Gateau O Chocolat cake will be sure to leave your customer in awe with every bite. The best way you can send a memorable thank you to a friend, colleague, or customer is with a healthy and delicious chocolate cake that is sure to make a memorable lasting mark as a kind gesture. We offer our cakes in high quality wrapping and packaging to ensure freshness and presentation upon delivery.  Be sure to remind whoever you are gifting this experience to that our cakes are best when served in a bubble bath with a glass of port wine or champagne.

Gateau O Chocolat was born from many decades of Chef Roux perfecting his signature French flour-less chocolate, gluten free cake in several of his restaurants in the St. Petersburg, Florida area.  When friends and restaurant regulars began requesting his gluten free chocolate cake for birthdays, holidays and special events, Chef Roux decided it was time to let the rest of the world experience what has been coined as “heaven’s chocolate cake.”

These organically certified ingredients are sensitive to the people, animals and plantation that help produce them. The Rain Forest Alliance, Organic Certified, 100% single-origin rare, Ecuadorian chocolate is the feature ingredient in this cake and lays the base for everything Gateau O Chocolat is about. Other ingredients include certified organic eggs, USDA organic certified sugar, certified organic butter and a couple others. You can read all about these certified organic ingredients and what makes them healthier then processed foods in our How It’s Made page.

When taking a bite of Gateau O Chocolat’s flourless, gluten-free, chocolate cake and letting your pallet appreciate the taste of the cake, it’s easy to realize that it is much more then just a chocolate cake. Chef Roux created a cake that is not only delicious, but also healthy for his patrons and the environment. This cake is satisfying to chocolate lovers, gluten-sensitive eaters, environmental-friendly consumers, and people who want a product that is produced with the care of everyone involved in mind.  From start to finish, the production of this chocolate, gluten-free cake does not leave a single part of the process unsung.

When speaking to the actual taste of the cake, there is certain moist, melt in your mouth texture that cannot be ignored and a clean, dark-chocolate flavor that is simply mouth-watering. Look no further than the seemingly simple, yet complex, blend of ingredients used to make Gateau O Chocolat’s signature flour-free cake.