“Top Chef” returns in 2025 for a 16th season which marks a real turning point for the culinary competition. A prestigious partnership will revolutionize the program, but also make teeth cringe …
The culinary competition Top chef Returns in 2025 for a 16th season which promised to be rich in surprises, as M6 said at a press conference this week. To relaunch the interest of viewers, the program bet on an unprecedented and ambitious partnership with the prestigious Michelin guide. Nothing less. Stéphane Rotenberg and the usual jury, composed of Philippe Etchebest, Hélène Darroze, Paul Pairet and Glenn Viel will welcome in the kitchens of Top chef Anonymous inspectors of the gastronomic guide. These taste experts will assess the work of candidates over the tests according to their own criteria: technical mastery, harmony of flavors, personality of the plates …
In Top chefdiscretion will be required, as it is when an inspector of the Michelin passes incognito in a restaurant to assess it. But this great novelty of Top chef 2025 will completely upset the issue of the final. The winner of Top chef will indeed be able to open an ephemeral restaurant for a few weeks … which could be awarded a Michelin star from the opening if the menu presented in the final seduces the inspectors! A supreme consecration for the talented young chef who will win the competition and a hell of a boost, in addition to the 100,000 euros in gains, divided votes in proportion to the previous seasons.
This “historical” alliance between Top chef And the Michelin guide, announced as obvious by production in view of the upmarket of the program from a gastronomic point of view and the number of former star candidates (thirty), however, did not convince everyone. On social networks, professionals have already denounced an alliance which risks distorting the spirit of the famous guide, by encouraging a little more the starisation of chiefs. Some have expressed their fears to see the famous stars now “guided” by television.
Release Thursday titled a acerbic ticket titled “Entrance-Plat-Décitments” menu, pointing the flaws of this partnership. “On the one hand, a program that arrives on its sixteenth season, whose audiences last year were the worst in its history, and which no longer knows what to invent to convince spectators to spend three hours in front of their TV Every Wednesday evening. that we often find relevant, “we could read.
So daring bet to brilliantly relaunch a program actually suffering or culinary sacrilege motivated by marketing interests? The opinions differ on this surprising marriage between the small screen and the small red book.
Top chef is the TV meeting on Wednesday evenings on M6. The dates of season 16 were not communicated at a time when we write these lines, but season 15 had returned on March 13 last year, with the broadcast of the first episode. A premium is generally scheduled every Wednesday, from 9:10 p.m., on the sixth channel, to the final, probably in June. It is also possible to find Top chef In replay streaming the day after its broadcast on the M6+platform.
Since the creation of Top Chef, the program of the show has evolved from season to season, some chefs leaving the show to be replaced by new names in the French culinary scene.
In 2025, there are no more than five jurors: Stéphanie Le Quellec, winner of season 2 of Top Chef and heads two stars, definitively joined Hélène Darroze, Glenn Viel, Paul Pairet and Philippe Etchebest Among the brigade chiefs.
It was Jorick Dorignac who won season 15 of Top chef In June 2024. The young chief of 29 at the time of the competition gleaned 56.54% of the votes after the final dinner, given to the Red Cross volunteers and therefore the sum of 56,540 euros. Former student of the Blanquefort apprentice training center, passed through “Le Pressoir d’Argent” (Gordon Ramsay restaurant) and the “Neso” in Paris, Jorick Dorignac then engaged with the Star -Stéphanie Le Quellec, which supported him during the show and who joined Top chef Definitely in 2025.
Each new episode of Top chef is available the day after its replay broadcast. Just connect to M6+, streaming platform and M6 replay service, to find the episode. However, this is available for a limited period, it is recommended not to be long before you catch up. It is possible to see Top chef In replay on your computer, tablet or smartphone.