The three finalists cook for their lives in front of their most formidable diners yet.
“If I saw Hélène Darroze on the booking system, I’d be having nightmares for weeks,” Buddha said, dubbing her “probably top five best chefs in the world, an absolute juggernaut.” “Even just one of them coming to your restaurant, you’d be shitting yourself,” he declared.
And the various shopping trips presented hurdles for all three toques, who each had a hard time locating key ingredients at the French markets: Gabri was forced to swap out plantains for sweet potatoes—though he wondrously whizzed around that Mexican mart like a kid in a, well actually, exactly like Gabri in a Mexican mart—Sara had to sub in liver for her preferred sweetbreads, and Buddha had a mini panic attack until he finally located the lobsters he wanted.
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