The circle has come full circle for Stéphanie Le Quellec. She who won season 2 of Top Chef is back, but this time on the jury, with Philippe Etchebest, Glenn Viel and Paul Pairet, Hélène
Darroze, Dominique Crenn and Pierre Gagnaire. In an interview given to Here, this March 8, 2024, the one who now has two Michelin stars spoke about her greatest pride. And she cites Charles Aznavour as her favorite client.
“He really liked my sweetbreads”
And yet Stéphanie Le Quellec has many other victories of which she can boast. She had two stars, which “calmed the bad tongues”she said, of those who saw her rightly “like a little girl from a reality TV program that was bound to fail“. She also has three children – “the eldest is 20, his brother is 18 and the youngest is 6” – and a husband whom she adores and who shares the same profession and the same passion with her.
But Stéphanie Le Quellec is also a fan like any other! And about the singer of “Bohemian”, “Tremendous”“No I did not forget anything” and of “The mother“, disappeared in 2018, she admits, like a teenager: “When I had it at the table, I felt like I was making a dream come true. It happened two or three times.”. In confidence, she also reveals what the master has ordered at her table: “I remember that he really appreciated my sweetbreads.”
“Top Chef was not an end but a beginning”
A beautiful journey for the one who ensures “I always kept in mind that Top Chef was not an end goal but a beginning. I continued to work with sincerity“. Advice that she can pass on to the young talents in her brigade, now that the show has become one of the most popular of the paf.
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