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In this tedious and long year of a pandemic, the hospitality sector has undoubtedly been one of the most affected by the crisis. Infinity of restaurants that have had to adapt to the new circumstances and reinventing itself in a new landscape in which many have stood out for their ability to adapt quickly to the new and changing scenario, even launching new projects.
This Monday, l the Repsol Guide has distributed its famous Suns with which he intends to praise and distinguish the work of many of them. Are a total of 96 restaurants that enter the renowned selection of the popular Spanish gastro guide: 3 with Tres Soles, 11 with Dos Soles and 82 restaurants debut with Un Sol in reward for their work and effort in the most unusual year of our lives. This year also opens a new recognition, the Sustainable Sun, which has been awarded to Eneko Atxa. Its restaurant, ‘Azurmendi’ (Three Suns Repsol Guide), is an example of coexistence with nature, taking advantage of the resources that surround it and working together with artisan producers.
Among all of them, there are three new restaurants that this year achieve the highest recognition with Tres Sol: Alchemy by Jordi Vilá, Elkano by Aitor Arregui y Miramar by Paco Pérez. Where are they, how much do they cost, what to eat, how to reserve a table … Summum, we take a tour of all of them to tell you everything you need to know about this exclusive trio of aces.
Alchemy
¿Donde?
Alkimia Restaurant
Ronda Sant Antoni, 41
Barcelona
932076115
Price: Tasting menu: € 168
From Barcelona, the cook Jordi Vilà keep digging into ‘Alkimia’ in the recipe book and pantry of Catalan cuisine, with a permanent renovation of dishes that respect and honor temporality.
Vilà together with the maître d ‘ Sònia Profitós In 2002 they opened the doors of the restaurant that 14 years later moved to the noble floor of the old Moritz Factory, once the home of the brewery family. There they serve today a tasting menu, capable of making out traces of the Catalan cuisine of the future, the common thread of his cuisine. Proposals such as peas with cuttlefish a la bruta, the suquet barat de verat with ganxet bean, calçot and spinach or elvers with double chin and tomato a l’all cremat shake the diner.
Inside Alkimia, in a part of the main dining room we find the kostat. Jordi Vilà’s most personal and close line in which you will find one more day-to-day kitchen, with an excellent product that turns the act of eating into a daily festival. A fresh menu, made with rigor, of dishes, plates and tapas designed to share and for bons vivants.
elkano
¿Donde?
Elkano Restaurant
Calle Herrerieta, 2
Getaria (Gipuzkoa)
943140024
Price: Tasting menu € 135
Aitor Arregi He governs what today is a mythical house revered by his own colleagues with the clairvoyance of those who observe his beloved environment, interpret it and soak the diner with the immense flavor of the culinary landscape of Getaria. Freshness, temporality and marine terroir unleash magic on the incandescent embers of ‘Elkano’, with the turbot as the big star.
The transgressive vision of the grill that José Arregi founded in 1964 under the name of “Bar Elkano”, located on Elkano street in Getaria, is what today stands the pillars of this family restaurant. Its success is based on extreme minimalism, an “exhaustive nakedness” in the interference for the transformation of the product that always seeks to arouse excellence in the sensations of each of the products offered in the room.
Between your proposals Most outstanding, the experts of the Repsol Guide recommend the Lobster Antisalpicón, the Cocochas in different types of cooking or the wild turbot.
Casas Particulares Miramar, Havana
¿Donde?
Miramar Restaurant
Paseo Marítimo, 7
Llançà (Girona)
972380132
Price: Tasting menu € 160 and € 190
Paco Pérez claims in ‘Miramar’ classic seafood cuisine and incorporating sustainability into his discourse, an exponent of the highest gastronomy of Alt Empordà, where the Tramuntana combs Paco’s cuisine and the Mediterranean itself season it.
The forest and the coastline of La Mar d’Amunt inspire Paco Pérez when putting together the proposal for ‘Miramar’, a lavish restaurant from classic seafood cuisine occupying the building that was once a hostel run by the parents of his partner, the maître Montse Serra. In fact, five suites allow you to stretch out the experience and wake up the next day on the beach. A step away from France, Paco offers a succulent menu, in a space whose windows allow you to contemplate sheltered the fishermen who go out to fish, with edgy touches in the two tasting menus of different length and creative component, according to the Repsol Guide itself.