Mohamed Cheikh dreamed of opening his very first address in the capital’s golden triangle. ” After Top Chefeverything was possible, recalls the winner of the show in 2021. Opening a gourmet restaurant, creating an intimate bistro… I had no career plan, just wanted to succeed,” confides the 32-year-old chef, born in Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis) in an Algerian family. Only one certainty at that moment: not to return to the suburbs. “When Olivier Bertrand (at the head of nearly 1,200 establishments around the world) m’a dit : I have something for you in Saint-Ouen, I refused. No question of returning to 93 where I grew up. »
Then time passed and great opportunities flourished beyond Paris itself. So after having managed a pop-up restaurant in the Jardin des Plantes (5th), signed collaborations with the Pagode de Cos (8th) and Burger Père & Fils (2nd), or even a dinner cruise on “the Blue Diamond”, Mohamed Cheikh finally put down his knives in Saint-Ouen, in the old library located opposite the town hall and right next to the Île-de-France regional council. Return to Seine-Saint-Denis.
