With two departures and a return in this episode 9, and a return of eliminated as glimpsed in the trailer of the 10 which followed, the candidates of the 13th season of the culinary contest of M 6 waltz in a movement of backlash .
It goes away and it comes back, for, in the end, a return to nine next week, with brigades a little turned upside down all the same.
First a return, that of Rouge Wilfried, eliminated last week but recalled because Violet Lilian had to leave for “personal reasons”.
Here is Wilfried again, the globetrotter who joined Paul Pairet's brigade from the outset, for the first event, a nice appetizer concocted by Adrien Cachot.
Mamma mia!
These are the offal that the finalist of the 2020 season asks them to prepare.
Four restraints, four different pieces chosen blind, and to make matters worse, a plate tasted first by customers of a restaurant who can't stand this type of dish.
If they reject it, it won't be tasted by the chef… Phew, the dishes all pass.
The slaughter takes heart and courage, Goldman would sing.
The heart, of beef, will be for the Blues, Mickaël and Pascal, who present a nice slice snacked on the barbecue accompanied by roasted cauliflower with squid ink Béarnaise sauce.
On the verge of missing their cooking, they manage in extremis to pack Cachot, and it's a crush… direction next week.
Seduce the three-star Massimo Bottura
The Reds, Thibaut and Louise, stick out the pork tongue, which they accompany with eel, again without hiding the offal, taken as is.
They rank second.
Les Oranges, Lucie and Arnaud, pick up the calf's liver, try ravioli in Pak Choi cabbage leaves, like sour candies… The final judge will lack acidity.
Finally, the new Violets - the ghost Wilfried and the transferred Sébastien, still with the Blues of Philippe Etchebest last week - inherit the calf's cap, one of the pockets of the animal's stomach.
They prepare it as a trompe l'oeil dessert, like spaghetti.
“It's ballsy!
Cachot notes.
The big shot likes daring.
The qualified Blues, the Reds, Oranges and Violets still have work to do, individually, to convince the Italian Massimo Bottura, three-starred, twice voted best restaurant in the world and green star for his ecological commitment... All in all, with stale bread.
Side of bread for Wilfried, cooked like a piece of meat, ravioli with yeast cream for Louise, salty waffle for Sébastien or brioche bread roasted in butter for Thibaut, we take stale bread from both ends to seduce the maestro.
"It's nice to taste victory"
But it was at the heart that it was necessary to aim, and Arnaud and Lucie succeed, the first with a soup of bread with parmesan from Arnaud, a family dish in which he puts “memories, heart and soul”.
“An exceptional, marvelous soup”, which had “a surprise in every bite”, enthused the Italian.
A favorite !
Lots of emotion, again, for Lucie's pudding that she calls Gaspard's bowl - it's her son - who gave her goosebumps.
“All moms in the world should know this recipe,” enthused the chef.
"It's nice to taste the victory," savors Glenn Viel, whose two Oranges win.
Violets and Reds are sent to the hot seat, and it is Sébastien and Thibaut who face off in the last chance around the zucchini.
That's life.
The duel turns to Sébastien's advantage… Thibaut bows, visibly very moved.
He mentioned his recently deceased sister, a detail not preserved in the editing, but his emotion provokes a pretty reaction of affection, all the candidates converging on him for a giant hug.
So goes “Top Chef”, for now… In next week's trailer, on Thursday April 21st due to the in-between-rounds debate – who do we see coming back?
Thibaut… and Lilian.
It goes away, and it comes back.
For now.
