New Haven based photographer Chris Randell spends the day with Crepes Choupette, executing a ballerina inspired photo shoot.

Adil Chokairy is hoping that if you’re famished before or after a busy day of shopping in the Broadway District, you’ll fuel up with a crêpe.

Yale students munched on crepes at the end of the first day of classes, as a new crepe kiosk on Broadway Avenue celebrated its grand opening.

Crêpes Choupette — the creperie that has won the hearts of Yale students — will soon return to campus, this time as a kiosk on the Broadway Triangle.

A Parisian expat, New Haven resident Chokairy has opened his latest business, Au Chalet, next-door to his first storefront on Whitney Avenue, Crepes Choupette. His new restaurant will introduce the city to a unique form of Swiss-inspired dining called raclette. Raclette is the name of the cheese used and the technique behind its serving: The half-wheel of cheese is heated to a bubbling point, before it’s oozed down onto other foods.

 A woman shielded her eyes and peeked in through the only window at Choupettes Creperie and Café on Whitney Avenue Thursday afternoon. Inside, more than 20 people dined in and shared laughs at the small, rustic and antiquated café.

Crepes Choupette LLC has been on up and running on the streets of New haven since June 2014. Its a mobile tricycle cart serving downtown New haven sweet and savory crepes. The success of the cart in New Haven has led the business to put down roots and open a bricks and mortar creperie in New Haven. Expected opening date is June 2015.

Adil Chokairy grew up in Paris loving crêpes and the rituals that came with them: the coffee and the tea and the catch-ups with friends and family about the unfolding day. Then he grew up some more, moved to the United States and embarked on a career in the banking industry.