Two well-known Twin Cities culinary brands are merging and moving into a new space in the 50th and France neighborhood in Edina.

On Monday, Minneapolis chef Gavin Kaysen’s Bellecour Bakery announced plans to merge with longtime St. Paul cooking school and culinary retailer Cooks of Crocus Hill. Together, they plan to open a new location at 3934 Market Street in Edina. Opening on May 30, the new entity will operate under the name Cooks | Bellecour.

Cooks of Crocus Hill’s existing locations in St. Paul and the North Loop will remain open, though they’ll also operate under the Cooks | Bellecour banner. Cooks opened its first location on St. Paul’s Grand Avenue 50 years ago.

This isn’t the first time the two brands have joined forces: In July of 2020, Kaysen opened a pop-up Bellecour inside of the Cooks space in the North Loop around the time he shut down his original Bellecour location in Wayzata. Pandemic pressures forced the closure of the Wayzata restaurant. But Cooks of Crocus Hill owners Karl Benson and Marie Dwyer repurposed part of their North Loop location and invited Kaysen in to open a pop-up.

“The community embraced us and we built our idea from there,” Kaysen said in a news release. “We’re proud to solidify our partnership even further and to collaborate on our first official opening together.”

The new Edina location will continue Cooks of Crocus Hill’s long tradition of culinary education, with a few new classes added to the mix. That will include a croissant-making course. The release said classes will take place “nearly every day.”