This is a trip to luxury center. Not only because it features some of the best restaurants in Spain and the world, but because their kitchens have every day fresh ingredients from their own gardens.
Aromatic plants, greens, vegetables, flowers, fruits and even vineyards. Kilometer 0, in its most TOP version.
Mugaritz: the world in Guipúzcoa
¿Donde?
Mugartiz
Aldura Gunea Aldea, 20
20100 – Errenteria (Gipuzkoa)
943 52 24 55
Price: € 220 average
The garden is one of the axes of the universe not only culinary, but also philosophical of Mugaritz. The restaurant, which has been at the Olympus of world gastronomy for years, grows close to its cuisine around eighty varieties of plants from all over the world.
From Mexico to Japan. It is not an eccentric choice, but a necessary one, considering that this garden – which started only with aromatic herbs – does not want to compete with local producers. Sustainability is not an option.
Noma: following the rhythm of the seasons
¿Donde?
Noma
Strandgade, 93
1401 – Copenhagen (Denmark)
Price: € 330 average
It has been named the best restaurant in the world several times and since CopenhagenEven in a new location, it continues to lead the Nordic kitchen revolution.
Noma It also has its own garden outside the restaurant, where different herbs and flowers such as lavender and oregano and during the summer (its gastronomic proposal is focused on seasonal products) also potatoes, pumpkins and zucchini.
Azurmendi: sustainable luxury
¿Donde?
azurmendi
Barrio Legina s / n
48195 – Larrabetzu (Bizkaia)
+34 94 455 83 59
Price: € 220 average
It located in the countryside, on the side of a hill cultivated with native vineyards and occupies a glass building that allows you to enjoy the landscape and take advantage of natural resources to minimize environmental impact.
The gastronomic and conceptual proposal of azurmendi (3 Michelin stars) is focused on sustainability and the enhancement of local products. On the roof of the building, both outdoors and in a greenhouse, are sustainably grown (100% rainwater is used for irrigation) vegetables such as leeks, peppers and pumpkins, edible flowers and aromatic plants.
Its orchards are designed to provide some ingredients to the kitchen, but above all to teach diners the richness and importance of the network of local producers. Luxury at kilometer 0.
Reale: exclusivity “made in Italy”
¿Donde?
Reale
Contrada Santa Liberata,
67031 – Castel di Sangro AQ, Italy
+39 0864 69382
Price: € 140/190 average
A former XNUMXth century convent located in an unspoiled natural environment. An exclusive charming hotel with only nine rooms. A professional cooking school and a restaurant, Reale, which also boasts the highest distinction awarded by the red guide.
casadonna It is the headquarters of Niko Romito, one of the most prestigious Italian chefs. A “solar system” that has an orchard with an area of 1300 square meters where fruit trees are grown (apple trees, cherry trees, almond trees, butts and hazelnuts are some of them) to aromatic plants and vegetables.
This garden provides fresh and exclusive ingredients for the restaurant’s kitchen, from which dishes such as the alcoholic Misticanza and almonds come out, which contains around twenty varieties of native plants that grow spontaneously around Casadonna. There’s also a vineyard experimental planted with local grapes and other varieties such as Pinot noir and Riesling.
Les Cols: orchard and R&D
¿Donde?
Les Cols
Carretera de la Canya, 106
17800 – Olot, Girona
+34 972 269 209
Price: € 95 average
This establishment of Olot under the command of the chef Fina Puigdevall Since its inception, it has a vegetable garden and a chicken coop in the restaurant itself. In the last five years, it also boasts a more extensive orchard located in the Vall de Bianya, a few minutes from the restaurant, where it is also Horizon House, its area of work, research and innovation.
The garden is about Sqm 5000 and you can visit. Among the cultivated plant varieties are tomatoes, aubergines, beans, beets, radishes, lettuce, celery, spinach, chard, aromatic herbs and flowers. There is even a mobile chicken coop that is used for fertilizing! A luxury pantry that a kitchen with 2 Michelin stars.
Punto MX: a luxury Mexican pantry in Segovia
¿Donde?
MX point
Calle del Gral. Pardiñas, 40
28001 — Madrid
914 02 22 26
Price: € 65/110 average
A custom orchard, designed to ignore the kilometers that separate Spain from Mexico. MX point, a Mexican haute cuisine restaurant in the capital (the only one in Europe with a Michelin star), has its own organic garden in Navas de Oro, in Segovia.
Tomatillos, chili peppers (more than twenty varieties), corn and aromatic herbs such as epazote, huauzontle and holy leaf are grown there. The seeds, of course, are brought directly from Mexico. As they themselves affirm, “We are planting Mexico among pine forests”.
Arpège: French haute cuisine that celebrates the garden
¿Donde?
Arpeggio
84 rue de Varenne
75007 – Paris (France)
+33 1 47 05 09 06
Price: Menu 175/390 €. Menu 76/185 €
They say that the stalwarts of Arpeggio They reserve months in advance so as not to miss the first white asparagus or the first winter truffles. And it is that in this exclusive Parisian establishment –3 Michelin stars and number 8 on the list The World’s 50 Best Restaurants– Nature and vegetables are the ones that rule.
Your chef Alain Passard It is supplied by three orchards located in three different French regions, each with a different type of soil. In this way, the best carrots, leeks, celery and aromatic herbs arrive at the restaurant every day.
Those who wish can also subscribe to a newsletter and receive weekly notifications to go and collect fresh vegetables from those same gardens at the restaurant. Of course, there is also the option of receiving them at home. Better impossible
ABaC: green shoots in Barcelona
¿Donde?
ABaC
Av. del Tibidabo, 1
08022 – Barcelona
933 19 66 00
Price: € 180/210 average
Located in a luxury hotel in Barcelona, the headquarters of the chef Jordi Cruz It has its own garden at the back of the kitchen building. There they grow from aromatic herbs to seasonal vegetables, such as mini carrots and radishes.
There are also clovers and flowers, such as begonias, which are used to finish dishes that from this year look 3 Michelin stars. This is the case of the Chamomile Pillow, milk and wafer with citric and gently spicy touches or the Cactus of lime, tequila and green leaves. A touch of green.
Mirazur: the orchard, the sea and the mountains
¿Donde?
Mirazur
30 Avenue Aristide Briand
06500 – Menton, France
+33 4 92 41 86 86
Price: Menu 110/160/210 €
The sea, the mountains and the vegetable products that come from the markets in the area and from its own garden. The dishes of Mirazur, a French restaurant that this year has climbed to the podium of the media list ’50 Best ‘, are born every day from these three universes. In the garden of this TOP restaurant there are from aromatic plants to citrus fruits.
By the way, from November 12 to December 2, the chef of Mauro Colagreco will transfer Mirazur’s kitchen to the hotel NH Collection Eurobuilding in Madrid, under the project In Residence. The menu, which will be served only during dinner hours, from Tuesday to Saturday, will cost 210 euros and will focus on autumn flavors, such as game, mushrooms, truffles and tubers. Haute cuisine, in pop-up format.