TOP CHEF 2022. The restaurant war raged in Top Chef this Wednesday, March 30, 2022. However, no candidate was eliminated at the end of episode 7.
[Mis à jour le 30 mars 2022 à 23h40] Every year, Top Chef fans look forward to the restaurant war. It is now done since the event was at the heart of episode 7, broadcast on M6 this Wednesday, March 30, 2022. Each trio had to imagine a restaurant concept: Louise, Pascal and Lucie imagined a Greek-Mediterranean restaurant on the theme of sharing, Lilian, Thibaut and Sébastien went for a 100% plant-based restaurant and Mickaël, Arnaud and Wilfried bet on a restaurant featuring sausages. As a reminder, only two restaurants will be able to serve their menu after the food critic François-Régis Gaudry has judged their concept and their decoration.
Like every restaurant war, several hazards come to disturb the preparations of the Top Chef candidates. Mickaël, Arnaud and Wilfried have a string of difficulties: they had to choose the restaurant with the least character. In the kitchen, everything becomes complicated for the trio: Wilfried cuts his finger and has a bad fall which injures him, Mickaël is electrocuted and the restaurant suffers several power and gas cuts which delays them in their preparations. Fortunately, the concept of the restaurant will seduce François Régis-Gaudry enough to allow them to open their ephemeral establishment to taste their preparations.
Lilian’s despair
The stakes in the restaurant war are high for Lilian, the only remaining candidate from Paul Pairet’s brigade. The candidate has already been unable to open his own restaurant because of Covid-19 and has become a supermarket manager. He takes this event particularly to heart. Unfortunately for the candidate from Beauvais, François Régis-Gaudry will not retain their concept, being more attracted by the restaurants of their competitors. Lilian is discouraged: “This is the second time I can’t open a restaurant. I’m revered, I’m cursed. I’ll do advice and consulting and then that’s it. Restaurant openings aren’t for me. “
The restaurant war therefore continues for Mickaël, Arnaud and Wilfried on one side, Louise, Lucie and Pascal on the other. During the tasting in the dining room and on delivery, the chefs and critics are on the whole won over by the two proposals. It is finally the restaurant concept dedicated to sausage by Mickaël, Arnaud and Wilfried that wins this restaurant war. Their establishment will soon open physically for a few weeks, while their menu will be available for delivery on Uber Eats for ten days in Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Lille, Nantes, Grenoble, Montpellier, Toulouse and Bordeaux. At the end of this episode, unlike previous seasons, no candidate is sent as a last chance and there is therefore no elimination.
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Top Chef is the Wednesday night TV show. The 2022 season started on February 16 and will probably end in May, as is usually the case. Each new episode can be discovered on M6 from 9:10 p.m. on Wednesdays. It is also possible to find Top Chef in replay the day after its broadcast on the site 6play.fr
Fifteen candidates have been selected to compete in season 13 of Top Chef. Among them, there are notably 12 men, three women, including 3 Belgians. Among the standout candidates this season are Renaud, who had participated in Top Chef season 1, Lilian, a young chef whose dreams of opening a gastronomic restaurant were shattered by the coronavirus and who has since become a supermarket manager, Thibaut who has a green star, or Louise, chef of her own restaurant in Portugal who does not lack original ideas in her preparations. Discover the portraits of the Top Chef candidates by clicking here.
Since the creation of Top Chef, the show’s jury has evolved from season to season, with some chefs leaving the show to be replaced by new names from the French culinary scene. For the 2022 season, Philippe Etchebest (blue brigade), Hélène Darroze (red brigade) and Paul Pairet (purple brigade) return to the jury. On his side, Michel Sarran, emblematic juror of Top Chef, announced that he would not return to the show in 2022 by decision of the production. It is replaced by Glenn Vielwho appeared several times on the M6 show as a guest conductor.
During a press conference presenting the new season of Top Chef, we were able to discover the role that Glenn Viel will play this year. The chef of the Oustau restaurant in Baumanière (Baux-de-Provence) will coach the orange brigade. “He has every intention of blowing it all up, commented Stéphane Rotenberg. He arrived with energy and the will to do very hard”. Glenn Viel explains that he did not specifically ask to join the jury of Top Chef 2022, he was contacted by the production. “Of course, I jumped at the chance, he recalls. It’s a competition that is well perceived, well seen, with the greatest chefs in the world who come to participate. I was welcomed with a lot of benevolence and kindness.”
Top Chef viewers discovered a new juror during the 2022 season. If Philippe Etchebest, Hélène Darroze and Paul Pairet are still present, Michel Sarran has been removed from the program. The latter evokes a choice of production, without knowing the reasons: “It was a little violent, remembers the chef from Toulouse in an interview with Parisian, last September. I did not expect it at all. Why me What prompted their decision? What did I do wrong? I didn’t get an answer.” He is replaced by Glenn Viel who, according to information from Télé Loisirs, did not fail to contact his predecessor before filming, for correction.
During a press conference in January 2022, Stéphane Rotenberg sketched the outlines of the next season of Top Chef. He sums it up in these words: “a new promotion surprising in character on the one hand, and a pantheon of great chefs on the other”. Among the guest chefs already announced for this 2022 edition, let us mention Alexandre Gauthier, elected chef of the year 2016, Clare Smyth, the first woman to win three stars in the United Kingdom, Dominique Crenn, the first three Michelin star chef in the United States. United, or even Pia Leon, elected best chef in the world in 2021.
On June 9, 2021, Mohamed Cheikh became the winner of season 12 of Top Chef. The candidate, who did the whole competition under the advice of Hélène Darroze, faced Sarah, from Paul Pairet’s brigade, during this final. He won 54.86% of the vote, against 45.14% for Sarah, which gives him a gain of 54,860 euros. Aged 28, this young chef has never hidden that he comes from a popular suburb of the Paris region (Fontenay-sous-Bois), and that he had to struggle to find a place for himself in the middle. . He has notably worked with several starred chefs, such as Eric Fréchon. He has also worked in prestigious restaurants, such as the Royal Monceau or the Shangri-La. Since the start of the competition, Mohamed was part of Hélène Darroze’s squad.
Each new episode of Top Chef is available the day after its broadcast in replay. Just connect to 6play, M6’s replay service, to find the episode. This one is available for a limited time though, so it’s recommended you don’t delay before catching up. It is possible to see Top Chef in replay on your computer, tablet or smartphone.