Laurent Bouilloud, owner of the Vieux Moulin restaurant in Versoud, near Grenoble, set the record during a local festival.
His pâté en croûte - a popular French dish involving a coarse, usually meat-based pâté wrapped in pastry and then served in slices - was measured at 2.78m and verified by a local court official.
He told local media that he had been working for two years on the structural challenge of creating a pâté en croûte that measured more than two metres in a single piece, and the creation of the final dish took more than 12 hours.
After it had been measured and verified, he sold it for €10 per slice, with all proceeds - €2,300 - going to the local hospital.
It's not his only record, Bouilloud also holds the world record for the largest potato dauphinois (set in 2022, the dish was more than 23 square metres) and the world's largest tartiflette, which required 850kg of potatoes to make.
The Descente des Alpages festival in Grenoble celebrates local culinary traditions and takes place every October.
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