Everything smiles on Arnaud Delvenne, the last Belgian candidate to defend our colors in this thirteenth season of Top Chef. On Monday evening, the Liège chef won the emblematic La guerre des restaurants event alongside Mickaël and Wilfried, who are respectively part of the brigades of Philippe Etchebest and Hélène Darroze. What our three companions did not know, however, when setting up their knives in the kitchens of Philo Saucisse – the name they gave to their establishment – is that, this year, there would be more than the recognition of leaders to win. The production, which wanted to mark the occasion even more, told them that their restaurant would soon open its doors for several weeks. A first in the history of the competition and a dream come true for the three participants in the prestigious cooking competition!
A second restaurant
Arnaud Delvenne, who has just opened his establishment in Liège, Nono can therefore boast of being the happy chef of a second establishment in the Paris region. If you are passing through the French capital around April 19 (the official opening date has not yet been communicated), you will soon be able to sit down in the carnivorous bistro of the triumphant team of La guerre des restaurants . Arnaud, Mickaël and Wilfried had 48 hours to redecorate an old karaoke from A to Z. Before putting the microphones away for good, the three acolytes pushed the song one last time and sang the chorus of a Disney classic, “Hakuna Matata”. It is the lyrics of the Lion King song that inspired them to name the restaurant, Philo Saucisse.
As for the theme – that of the sausage – it was particularly close to Mickaël’s heart, who suggested that the trio imagine a menu around the sausage from the starter… to the dessert. Lamb sausage as a starter, the traditional sausage and mash revisited as a main course and white pudding with tonka bean and apples for dessert. A risky choice that destabilized but also seduced the Top Chef jury.
No candidate eliminated
The competing team, that of Louise, Lucie and Pascal, which collected only 6 votes once morest 15 in favor of Arnaud’s team, had imagined a restaurant, the MeriDio, around Mediterranean cuisine. L’Amarante, the vegetable restaurant of Sébastien, Lilian and Thibaut, was not selected by the food critic François-Régis Gaudry and might not open its doors.
