He doesn't really want to talk about the difficult months he has just gone through. In the summer of 2021, after seven years on the air, Michel Sarran announced that he had been replaced on the “Top Chef” jury by Glenn Viel, at the time unknown to the general public but admired in the gastronomy world for his three-pronged cuisine. stars at Oustau de Baumanière (Les Baux-de-Provence). On TV, no one lasts forever, but this eviction had hurt him. At the start of 2023, another hard blow: his restaurant in Toulouse lost one of its two stars, which he had won twenty years earlier. Finally, last summer, its concept of quality croque-monsieur, Croq'Michel, experienced serious difficulties.
But the cook is not the type to give up and the year 2024 looks brighter. First, he is back on M 6 as a juror in “the Best Bakery in France”. Then, the Toulouse gastronomic table, despite its degradation, displays insolent health. Finally, Croq'Michel should soon be reborn from its ashes, in a new form that the chef still keeps secret, like a few other projects currently being signed. In any case, he is a chef and entrepreneur in great shape that we met in his Toulouse stronghold.