There are only four of them and thought in the quarter -finals … but the arrival of Grégoire and Ilane puts a little blow to CharlesCharlie, Quentin and Margaux, still in the running in this 16th season of ” Top chef ». Grégoire first, who arrives by conquering in the green brigade of Eric Fréchon. “I come back stronger than ever,” he says. “You will understand your pain,” retorts Etchebest. You have to show the muscles in the salons of the George V.
Ilane entered his turn, with Fabien Ferré, three Michelin stars, head of the pink brigade. “Like, who is him?” », Breathe Quentin. The surprise is also read on Margaux’s face. ” How are you ? Asked Stéphane Rotenberg. “No,” she admits. Faced with these two hunger ghosts, she feels in danger.
The candidates will cook in palace mode. All, except Charlie. With his two favorites from the Michelin inspectors, he is immune to the quarterfinals. “It’s still cool, a bit still the holidays,” he says. We will see him in a bathrobe, bead, in the corridors …
“I will never stop taking risks, it’s my DNA”
Honor to the elders, production has planned a first test between Charles, Quentin and Margaux. One of them can qualify directly. They have 45 minutes to revisit the Mouillette egg. Charles smells well, he reverses the dish, inserting in a round bun a duxelles of mushrooms, an egg-comté-vin siphon and a candied egg yolk. Quentin has a crazier idea, put in the shell the bread in siphon and croutons, and in a wet, the egg.
For that, he must bare butter and go into a fryer … “You’re daring, but don’t miss it!” “Sighs Glenn Viel, that the risks taken a little. “I will never stop taking risks, it’s my DNA,” says Quentin. Margaux opted for a Japanese flan. “A breakfast egg is not a blank! “, Warns it. She adds a candied egg.
At tasting, Alan Taudon, two -star chief of the Orangery, one of the palace tables, and Guillaume Cabrol, baker’s baker, prefer Quentin’s proposal. They place Charles Second, Margaux closes the march. These last two must face the new ones, and create three bites in accordance with a green tea.
“To have two loustics who disembark in Bulldozer mode, I have the frills,” recognizes Margaux. Fear is also on the other side. “They have released everyone that I have beaten in recent weeks … It’s heavy …” worries Ilane who discovers the pantry and does not know what to do.
Charles is at the cleat, it will be oyster and cucumber cream, Cédrat raviole stuffed with rice with milk and cabbage stuffed with lost bread. Grégoire is also already launched. “I’m going to smoke everything, guys!” ». He dares the ox tartare to the oyster, a bunter lost to citrus fruits and a crumble and chocolate chocolate smoked eel.
Margaux travels again to Japan with a sort of shrimp sandwich, and especially attempts a butternut mochi. Without the ingredients for the dough, she struggles, improvises. Ilane panic. “You have a warrior mind!” “, The motivates Fabien Ferré. “No one is going to put me ko today,” Rage Ilane, who enters the fight.
When sending, Margaux is gray. She can. “The visual is a little raw,” notes Francesco Cosci, the sommelier of the palace. At tasting, Grégoire makes the difference and prevails with his hand with his chocolate, tartare and iodine. “It is the technique at the service of originality. We were in another dimension ”, welcomes the Sommelier.
“Damn, I’m sad”
Again second, Charles accuses the blow. But already the last straight line is announced, the dry pasta to make gastronomic. “Courage, my little Charlot!” “, Encourages him Margaux. It is played between her, Ilane and Charles. “You don’t let go, damn!” ». Etchebest stimulates his foal which imagines a timpani of macaroni with langoustines and chanterelles. Problem, it doesn’t stick. “It’s shit,” he gets annoyed. Why do I do things that I don’t know how to do! ». He blocks.
He, he prepares the poutargue pasta he ate with his father. It’s beautiful, laser. A little too much garlic. “We give everything, we go out Ilane and Pasta!” “Had Margaux, reassembled. She will make “Margaux” as Stéphanie le Quellec stated, Paccheris with a langoustine chorizo bisque and ginger lemon parsley breadcrumbs.
It succeeds, she takes the test tasted by Hélène Darroze, Christian Le Squer, Simone Zanoni and Alan Taudon. Charles managed to take out a plate. But his pasta is a little too cooked. Ilane, the Joker of the season, who passes. Charles is eliminated. Etchebest is struck. “It pisses off, I am very disappointed,” he breathes, very moved.
“It was the worst test of everything Top chef “, Slides Charles, distraught by the dismay of his leader, tears in his eyes. “Damn, I’m sad,” blows the latter. “It is still the paradox, it is I who chips and he laughs while it is his competition,” ends up noticing the best worker in France, who also leaves competition. “I am proud of you and your journey, I may not have told you enough,” he blows in Charles. “Thank you chief”.
