Guillaume Sanchez became known to the general public through the show “Top Chef”. However, his career is not new and his cuisine is focused on the future. This week in his show dedicated to several personalities from the Ile-de-France region, Toki Woki went to meet this off-piste regular on the occasion of the launch of his YouTube channel.
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Chef of the now famous NE/SO restaurant, Guillaume Sanchez had the pleasant surprise of winning a Michelin star in 2018. After winning over his peers, he now decides to conquer the rest of the world with a YouTube channel.
Guillaume Sanchez: We opened NE/SO seven years ago at 3 rue Papillon (9th arrondissement). It was a lot of work but for a very cool setting. I find it quite cool to have a place in Paris where you don’t feel like you’re cooped up. There are 18 seats, the restaurant is only open in the evening, Monday to Friday.
Guillaume Sanchez: NE/SO, it’s contemporary French cuisine. The idea was to bring a little modernity into this history of French cuisine which is enormous and ultra-codified. We got the Michelin star in 2018, we opened in 2018 and, since then, it has been renewed every year.
Guillaume Sanchez: Basically, I am not a cook, I come from pastry making. It guided my life for around ten years until I had to open a pastry shop in the 18th. Ultimately, the project didn’t get done and a friend said to me: “You’re stupid enough to open a restaurant, so let’s do it!”. The first restaurant opens, NE/SO will open two years later, another six months later, we win the star and it is obviously the result of great teamwork. It’s by repeating the actions that it ends up paying off.
Guillaume Sanchez: “Who will be the next pastry chef” which was the professional pastry show on France 2 and “Top Chef” a few years later. It was a bit unusual because, on the first show, I showed up with 10 years of experience in pastry making but Top Chef happened very shortly after the opening of my first restaurant and so, I didn’t I didn’t have much cooking experience yet.
Guillaume Sanchez: Very incisive dishes with lots of character. We had theorized this “slaps and hugs” thing in my kitchen. All NE/SO “tasting” menus look like this: a dish that’s a little complicated to eat and a comforting dish behind it.
Find the entire interview with Guillaume Sanchez in Toki Woki, this evening at midnight on France 3 Paris Île-de-France or in replay on france.tv/idf and also discover those of Chilly Gonzales, the king of the piano, Noam Sinseau, the prodigy comedian, Soraya Rhazel and the forgotten muses of rap.
