TOP CHEF – Finalist of season 11 of Top Chef, Adrien Cachot has failed in the face of David and ends at the second place in the contest. He looks back on his defeat and took stock of her adventure.
[updated June 18, 2020 at 00h10] Adrien Cachot is one of the candidates who makes the most sensation to people fans of Top Chef. Since 2017, Adrien Cachot is the leader of his own restaurant, Detour to Paris. It is thanks to her creativity, in particular, that the cook, a native of the bordeaux region has reached the final of the competition. However, by the end of this final test broadcast on M6 on 17 June, it is tilted to face his opponent, David Gallienne. The latter has been chosen as the winner of Top Chef 2020, with 56,41% of the vote, and 43,59% for Adrien. During an interview, the candidate of the brigade of Paul Pairet has entrusted us with his feelings about the defeat, but above all on everything that has been able to bring the culinary competition of the sixth string.
what is it that you have felt during the discovery of the result ?
I was disappointed, necessarily, but I expected that when even a little bit. I knew that the final was not very well placed for us… I am clear on what I’m doing, and I know when it is not level. There the level was not high enough.
at the end of the final you are dissatisfied with this assay. With the benefit of hindsight, are you still ?
I still had a good time. I was in a team with people that I love, I spent a good day and it was cool. After that is the job of a leader to resolve many of the problems. There, I have not been able to resolve the issues that stood out to me. But I do not care that good.
what is it that has made the difference according to you ?
I apprehended the final. I was quite ready. After that, it was a little more complicated at the moment, we have had hazards that have fact that the final was a bit more special… What made the difference I think, it is the regularity : being able to be clean from A to Z, from the first to the hundredth. And I think that it is still necessary to prepare in order to please a maximum of people…
You have confronted David in the final, a candidate who proved to be formidable during the competition : did you feel prior to a particular pressure ?
The more hard it usually is to work well by focusing on yourself. Each candidate would have happened in the final would have been a candidate formidable. There was no extra pressure.
“I was not expecting to receive so much kindness on the part of the viewers”
the ceremony of The knife has been turned in special circumstances this year, how have you lived ?
Yes, it is special, I had to be the only one to draw the knife… I would have preferred to be with my family, but the context that we didn’t had the choice. It is a shame not to have been able to be with my family and Paul Pairet, we want to share this moment with them. But there’s nothing we can do, so this is not serious.
you felt complicit with your coach Paul Pairet. What memories do you have from mentoring ?
I kept a very good memory. I love my boss, this meeting has been a very nice discovery. It is a beautiful person, not just a great conductor.
The public has been very enthusiastic about your personality and your kitchen throughout your career, how have you lived ?
With the containment we have been able to take the time to watch Top Chef and enjoy it : I spent very good moments in front of my tv. And for the social networks, followed by the force of things, because we’re curious and we look at it anyway… I find that this year there were a lot of great characters, there’s not really a favourite that stands out and that is a good thing. But honestly, I was expecting not to receive all this kindness on the part of viewers. It is the most beautiful victory I have had in Top Chef.
“My project is to find a place that will give me the means of my dreams”
If you need to make the balance sheet of your adventure that brought you Top Chef ?
It will give me the opportunity to have fun and be even more free than before. I am very happy to have been able to meet all the friends I’ve been able to make me during Top Chef. It also has the chance to meet great chefs, so we try to take what they can give us so it was a nice experience from every point of view. I take out the positive, everything has been wonderful for me.
