La meilleure cuisine régionale, c’est chez moi !

Le chef Norbert Tarayre et moi allons à la rencontre de celles et ceux qui nourrissent les autres : les restaurateurs. En les mettant en concurrence deux à deux, avant une finale à quatre, nous les avons écoutés raconter leurs spécialités et la manière dont ils les font vivre.

Norbert Tarayre and I are going to meet those who feed others: restaurateurs. By putting them in competition two by two, before a final four, we listened to them tell about their specialties and the way they make them live.

What attracts you to this game?

My exchanges with Norbert, who has a deep love for people. I also like to learn the history of local specialties that men, during their travels, have brought from one corner of France to another.

What specialties do you work on in your restaurants, La Table and Le Roc?

To my customers, I offer dishes of Breton, Lorraine and Haute-Savoyarde origin. Pâté lorrain is, in my eyes, a monument. At Le Roc, we have one on the menu. It's a tribute to my father.

A quality that you would be proud to pass on?

My artistic brilliance, which I get from my mother and grandmothers, and my sensitivity, which comes from my dyslexia. It pushed me to think differently.

An artist who touched you lately?

Valérie Hadida and her bronze sculptures. The gaze of her female figures is infinitely deep.

You have three days, a backpack and no car. Where are you going?

In the mountains, which imposes a form of pilgrimage tinged with philosophy; because mountain hiking is the only activity I know where, once at the top, you have only covered half the distance, since you still have to go down again.

Pope Francis invites himself to your table. What do you cook for him?

Scrambled eggs with truffles. The former represent life, the latter, sometimes nicknamed "black potato", connects us to the earth.

You are offered an hour of silence. What do you do with it?

I settle into "my room". I gathered memories there: my godfather's lamp, a record player, childhood photos, skis, stuffed animals, etc. I need to lock myself in there to face the world. Fortunately, my wife and children understood it and grant me these moments.

For you, Jesus is…

A guide. He shows me the way to be at the service of others and to do my best.