Preparing for a competition is a team affair, but also a calendar affair.
Naïs Pirollet, the young chef from Lyon in the running for the Bocuse d'Or 2023, was previously coached by Tabata Mey, chef with her husband Ludovic of the one-star restaurant Les Apothicaires (Lyon 6).
However, the couple is waiting for a happy event, and the pregnancy of Tabata Mey has proven to be incompatible with the final of the competition, which will be held in Lyon from January 22 to 23, 2023.
Jacques Marcon has been appointed to replace her.
This chef is none other than the son of Régis Marcon: father and son officiate together in their three-starred restaurant in Saint-Bonnet-le-Froid (Haute-Loire).
We can change a winning team
“If I have never done a competition, that did not prevent me from bathing in this environment, from rubbing shoulders with foreign teams and soaking up it,” said Jacques Marcon in a press release.
For him, coaching Naïs Pirollet, "is also giving back to the Bocuse d'Or all that this competition has done for (his) family": Régis Marcon indeed won the Bocuse d'Or 1995.
For Naïs Pirollet, this arrival “will allow us to take new inspiration and enrich the team.
The values of transmission and excellence are an integral part of his career, and his calm and thoughtful personality is a real asset.
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Jacques Marcon thus joins Team France, already made up of Davy Tissot, Bocuse d'Or 2021, Romuald Fassenet and Yohann Chapuis.
The 25-year-old candidate keeps Cole Millard as a clerk.
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