He was the first person he thanked when he obtained his Michelin star for his Bordeaux restaurant. "LA" Table d'Hôtes – The Fourth Wall, in 2018. "Behind a great man, there is always a great woman, and rightly so, she is there ", Philippe Etchebest then entrusts to the microphone of the journalists who came to question him on the spot. "She", it's Dominique, his wife, whose life he has shared for more than 22 years. And if the famous PAF chief usually remains very discreet about his couple and family, his colleagues and friends have given him a few secrets about the one who played a major role in the career of the best worker in France. In the documentary Philippe Etchebest, the destiny of an extraordinary chef, broadcast on Wednesday June 24, 2020 on M6, the chief Hélène Darroze returned to the "pretty extraordinary relationship" shared by the Bordeaux chef and his wife.
"Ten times a day he calls him, Domi"
"It is true that there is a complicity, a mutual admiration, a mutual tenderness. Ten times a day he calls him Domi, that's clear", she confides laughing. "On a shoot of Top chef Domi it is of all the sauces, it is every 5 minutes, as soon as there is a break, in the morning when we start very early, as soon as he knows it is up, hop, he calls her to sayHello', continues the mother of Charlotte and Quitterie. They are a very close-knit, very complementary couple, because Dominique often balances them, huh." A real couple goal who will undoubtedly make people envious!
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