Guess the Dish that Won It All… the 2023 Superyacht Chefs Battle it out at the Monaco Yacht Club

For years now, Superyacht Chefs have been meeting at the Yacht Club de Monaco to compete at the Superyacht Chef Competition, a unique gastronomic competition organized by YCM’s La Belle Classe Academy training centre in collaboration with Bluewater. The principle is simple: bring together 9 chefs who practice at sea and see them evolve on workstations inspired by the reduced spaces of the kitchens of their yachts. It’s all presided over by the three-Michelin star Chef Yannick Alléno, surrounded by gastronomy experts and supervised by Chef Joël Garault, President of Goûts et Saveurs. The Superyacht Chefs would discover their basket of mystery ingredients just 5 minutes before attacking the competition. A moment of reflection and creativity embellished with a second component: the intervention of the public’s additional chosen ingredient via a vote. The rounds made it possible to select three finalists who again had to prepare and present a dish and then a dessert to decide between them. There was an anti-waste criterion too — it obliges chefs to use each ingredient in the basket or risk receiving a penalty. The big winner of this edition on March 31st was Marco Tognon (M/Y Planet Nine — 73m) who surprised the jury with his blue lobster ceviche from Brittany, caviar and parmesan avocado mousse accompanied by a vodka and clove whipped cream of vanilla. He finished seducing the jury and the admiring onlookers with a poached pineapple on champagne and vanilla accompanied by a mascarpone cream.