France Wins the 2021 Bocuse D’or
French chef Davy Tissot won the 18th Bocuse d’Or final on Monday 27 September during Sirha Lyon. A special edition, honoured for the first time in the history of the competition by the presence of the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, who came to encourage the candidates and celebrate the entire profession.
This visit comes the day after the Great Chefs’ Dinner organised at the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regional Prefecture, also attended by the President of the Republic and bringing together more than 300 chefs and food service professionals.
“Once again, the candidates have astonished us, surprised us… bluffed us! Each time, they push back the limits and this year, after a long and winding road, it is even more enormous”, underlines Jérôme Bocuse, President of the Bocuse d’Or.
Davy Tissot is a cold-blooded chef who has surrounded himself with a collective brain to transform and create a new, competitive cuisine, inspired by both the French repertoire and a new aesthetic.
He succeeds the Danish Kenneth Toft-Hansen, Bocuse d’Or 2019, and with his assistant Arthur Debray, offers France its 8th gold medal after not having reached the 1st place of the podium since 2013.
Denmark and Norway, often the leading country in the competition, are second and third respectively in the final of the world’s biggest cooking competition.
THE PODIUM 2021
- Gold Bocuse: Davy Tissot (FRANCE)
Commis: Arthur Debray
- Sylver Bocuse: Ronni Vexøe Mortensen (DENMARK)
Commis: Sebastian Holberg Svendsgaard
- Bronze Bocuse: Christian André Pettersen (NORVÈGE)
Commis: Even Strandbråthen Sorum
- Best commis award: Manuel Hofer (SWITZERLAND)
- Special take-away prize: SWEDEN
- Special prize for the theme on the plate: ICELAND
- Bocuse d’Or Social Commitment Award: COLOMBIA