Author: marjona

The good thing about the arrival of the good weather is that the days get longer. The outdoor get-togethers with friends begin. And the long weekends also begin, like the Easter long weekend. A perfect time to enjoy, travel and get out of the house with no curfew. 

In between plans such as going to see museums, musicals, shopping or spending a few hours on the beach, you always have to make time to eat. During these days there are many gastronomic options. Whether you are in Marbella, Madrid or Tarifa. You may fancy a pizza from Alelí, the best embers of Leña, enjoy the best Japanese cuisine at Kemuri, sail the sea at Lobito de Mar or the trips of BiBo Dani García. Cuisine and menus for all tastes and days of the week. There are no excuses, only desire. 

Tragabuches Marbella’s Andalusian late-night snack.

Togetherness is strength. And enjoying yourself with friends and family revitalizes everyone. These days of Easter with public holidays and a very special weekend, the terrace lounge of Tragabuches has prepared  the best after lunch or pre-dinner evening for you . 

Music, special atmosphere and the best company to enjoy a fun evening in Marbella. 

By the way, don’t forget that you can also have breakfast in Dani García’s most Andalusian space from 9:30am to 11:30am from Monday to Sunday. 

Thursday and Friday start the day with brunch in Madrid

Holidays are for enjoying and celebrating. Go for a walk, go to the cinema or have a drink with friends. In the Dani García Group we don’t forget the start of the day and we suggest you start the day in style, with brunch at Leña or BiBo Madrid.

The first of them inaugurated just over a month ago and with embers as a nexus of union throughout its menu. For €45 per person, enjoy Leña’s best-known starters, choose a New York-inspired main course and finish with the sweetest touch. A unique and fiery experience for an unforgettable long weekend. 

BiBo is well-known in Madrid. A success that every week makes the people of Madrid enjoy the start of the day in style. For 39€ per person, very BiBo starters, a main course to remember and the best ice cream in the world for dessert.

In spring the leaves sprout, the temperatures rise, and the flowers open tinting the atmosphere of colour and joy. Likewise, BiBo has returned to Marbella treading hard and eager to create a magical atmosphere on the Costa del Sol. The most travelled and cosmopolitan concept of the Marbella chef has returned to the place where he was born; the emblematic brand of the chef, who has managed to get the heart of different cities, including Madrid, London or Doha, has returned to its premises of Puente Romano with a proposal of a more exquisite elaboration, but maintaining as always, its seal.

The coast of Marbella, which dreamed of BiBo’s return, can finally enjoy its cuisine from Saturday, April 1 with the successful restaurant that launches new image and some change in menu. As a main novelty, the concept will also be present in the epicentre of Puente Romano; diners can settle into La Plaza de Puente Romano while tasting the BiBo universe through a menu with some of the most emblematic bites of the Marbella chef. In a magical place located next to the Mediterranean and a lively atmosphere, this proposal will be available from Monday to Sunday from 19:30 until midnight.

Dani García also renews BiBo with a novel formula that maintains its essence thanks to a menu that offers a wide variety of cuisine. Elaborations that are the fruit of their trips and that are inspired by different culinary cultures such as the pulled bull tail brioche with sheets of mushrooms, arugula and the famous DG sauce; Robuchon crispy prawns from Sanlúcar wrapped in fresh basil or Nutella to die, a dessert made from Nutella ice cream covered in popcorn and hazelnuts with creamy caramel, coconut cake and lemon jam. Also, creations such as the three fillets of La Cónsula with its three sauces, consisting of Iberian acorn tenderloin with pepper sauce, venison with Malaga wine and veal roasted with mustard, or rigatoni stuffed with chicken, truffle, and foie. The chef wanted to bring together in this way his most adventurous creations in a new menu that discovers the most special flavours and defends the essence of the concept.

In parallel, on the coast of Cadiz, where the smells of nature and the sea are mixed with a fun atmosphere, a new season begins the summer version of the Marbella chef, BiBo Beach House in Tarifa, which also comes with some new features. The beach of Valdevaqueros will welcome again the proposal of BiBo, which will put rhythm and flavour to the days of beach and heat from the beginning of April to September so that visitors can enjoy an extraordinary atmosphere while watching the sun set over the Atlantic.

To top it off, in this paradisiacal environment BiBo Beach House offers the possibility to practice water sports at the Ion Club BiBo Tarifa School, located next to the restaurant. It is a water  sports school in which its customers can start in typical water sports of the area such as surfing. The ideal option to complete a day at the beach on the coast of Tarifa with good food, relaxation and sport. 

Dani García’s projects continue to sprout and transform, just as flowers do in spring. It is a reality that BiBo has become the most international concept of the Andalusian chef, the proposal that has replicas in other cities has managed to bring around the world a level of dining experience with a relaxed and traveling style that is reflected in the most unexpected and unique flavours and products.

Malaga, Paris, and art are the three ingredients that inspired Dani García in this new concept. His goal? To establish his Andalusian roots with a view to Mediterranean cuisine, an avant-garde cuisine rooted in Spanish tradition.

Our chef embarks on an artistically oriented phase to design culinary dishes based on Picasso’s blue period. Located in the luxurious Hotel Maison Delano, in the heart of the prestigious 8th Arrondissement with a beautiful 18th century Courtyard at 4 Rue d’Anjou. Land in the French capital, La Chambre Bleue, a window to the Mediterranean Sea from Paris.

This Mediterranean restaurant refers to the artistic piece by Pablo Picasso from Malaga, a painting created during his stay in Paris in his period known as the blue period, the beginning of a phase of artistic orientation, where the artist from Malaga painted works inspired by Spain.

Can you imagine being in Paris and having each of the dishes transport you to the Mediterranean area?

This Mediterranean restaurant refers to the artistic piece by Pablo Picasso from Malaga, a painting created during his stay in Paris in his period known as the blue period, the beginning of a phase of artistic orientation, where the artist from Malaga painted works inspired by Spain.

Can you imagine being in Paris and having each of the dishes transport you to the Mediterranean area?

Pure Mediterranean essence

A menu that will offer diners in Paris a little piece of the Costa del Sol through exquisite bites in which there will be no shortage of fish and seafood, as well as rice dishes and other options that reflect the Mediterranean cuisine from an international point of view. A visit to the province of Malaga without leaving this luxurious Parisian enclave.

La Chambre Bleue comes with gastronomic references that will stand out for their strong link with the aspirational, art, desire, and dreams

Let’s talk about culinary art; a product that will transport you to the roots of our chef, where we place a lot of detail the authenticity of the product. Other dishes such as the trio tartar or my mother’s omelette, will make your senses feel as if you were in the Costa del Sol.

Discover a whole universe of dishes bathed and designed from the Mediterranean blue, stimulating the senses of our customers through flavors and feelings, making them feel right at home.

A KITCHEN WITHOUT FRONTIERS

Dani García, awarded man of the year 2022 by Esquire magazine, is one of the most exported Spanish chefs worldwide. This year’s goal remains the same: to get down to the essence, to the deepest of flavour’s transporting you to another world and evading you from reality  in every one of our dishes. Taking the gastronomy of Malaga to the world, arriving in Paris with La Chambre Bleue to strengthen his art and pay homage to his countryman Pablo Picasso.

The international expansion of the Dani García Group has been a continuous reinvention and evolution based on the philosophy of “think local and cook global” and that has no borders because it was born to fulfill the dreams of those who tasted it. And dreams, like magic, have no limits.

Bienvenue à la cuisine méditerranéenne selon Dani García.

“It’s addictive and that’s why I dream of everyone being able to try this sauce”. Just a few years ago, Dani García shared his impression of Bull Sauce with his community of followers, a condiment that has made some of his most emblematic dishes recognizable.

Firm in his desire to take his flavours and creations to all parts of the world, the Marbella chef has taken another step towards the democratization of his cuisine, and on this occasion, the secret is in the sauce. In collaboration with Carrefour, Dani García is bringing his Bull sauce to everyone’s fingertips for the first time. From now on, it will be available in more than200 of the companies’ supermarkets in three versions: original, gluten free and vegetarian.

Fundamental in its restaurants

Also known as Dani García’s “secret sauce”, this dressing forms part of some of the Andalusian chef’s most iconic dishes and meat bites. These include the oxtail brioche and the Bull Burger from BiBo, his most travelled concept; the burger that made sense of it all from Leña, his concept inspired by embers and smoke; or the Rossini burger from Dani Brasserie, his cosmopolitan and casual proposal at the Four Seasons Hotel Madrid. 

As of a few weeks ago you can not only enjoy it in the chef’s restaurants, but also at home with this new launch.

Its tradition comes from New York and is a mix between breakfast and lunch. They turned it into brunch and all lovers of good gatherings around the table are taking it up as a fixed plan on their weekends. 

Leña Madrid, inaugurated in June 2021 in Paseo de la Castellana 57, activated this well-known and successful custom to start the weekend in the warmest way to add a lot of firewood to the fire starting early in the morning. Every Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 to 12:30h in a unique menu you will start the embers day of Dani García. Starters, main course of your choice, dessert and drink for €45 per person. 

Leña Madrid hides a secret.

The perfect decoration, dim light and the embers of Leña hide the corridor to the stars. The two Michelin Stars of Smoked Room, achieved at the same time six months after its opening in 2021. A unique space that takes you to haute cuisine in a unique omakase menu. In this space that seats fourteen diners, you just have to place yourself in the hands of the chef. The rest is up to us.

If you want to live this experience, pay attention to every fifteenth day of the month to be able to send a reservation request to be able to access to one of these places. 

The perfect gift. 

It is becoming more and more common to give intangible gifts that will offer the other person to the purest and most exciting experience. Among the world’s passions is gastronomy and Dani García’s wide-ranging offer is also available as a gift. 

For this reason, you can now purchase the perfect brunch experience for two as a gift. The beneficiary will have 12 months to redeem it from the date of purchase. When they do so, they will start the weekend in the embers of Dani García. After such a  start to your day, the rest can only get better.

Every day we worry about getting to everything. To have the maximum amount of time in the world to enjoy what we want and what we have around us. But really, what is time? Do we live in a world with enough time to get to everything we set out to? Or… do we set out to do more than we have time for?

The RAE defines it as a noun: “A physical magnitude that allows us to order a sequence of events, establishing a past, a present and a future, and whose unit in the international system is the second”.  Does our time really allow us to put everything in order?

The answer can vary and has different connotations. It depends on the moment we are in and the value we want to give it. But the truth is that we want to do more than what our day physically allows us to do. And do we ever stop to think about how much time we waste by wasting time? 

Successful films that make reference to this physical magnitude

The seventh art has brought numerous films that have “time” as their main theme to the big screens. Many of them make us think about time and how we spend our days. 

Therefore, we cannot forget to dedicate some of our time to watch “The Tree of Life“, “In Time“, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button“, “Adaline’s Secret” or “Groundhog Day“. Spend some of our time watching what time is like.

The Time of El Coleccionista 

Based on relics of Barbadillo Amontillado 150 years old, Cinzano Antica formula from the 30’s and Bitter de Angostura from 1920 we will have a slightly sweet start with a lot of sapidity in this short drink. 

This is how we enjoy “Tiempo” at El Coleccionista. Inspired by a walk-through time, we fell in love with this unique cocktail loaded with sensations that can only be defined as time. 

And after this reflection of time and life out loud… How do you want to spend your time?

What is better than waking up to been able to have breakfast in  the sun? WIth Tragabuches’ breakfast you can start the day with enough energy to get through the day. If you haven’t had time to have breakfast, don’t worry, Tragabuches has an extensive menu which will allow you to enjoy the true Andalusian kitchen from salads to desserts, through tapas.

However, if you don’t feel like thinking about what do you want to order, you can take a glimpse of the set menu, that offers the best selection of dishes. 

We bring you  good news! Once you finish immersing yourself in our culture, you can then move to our  outdoor tabletop, in the new Tragabuches Marbella Lounge terrace.

Tragabuches, our ‘’Non-Stop’’ kitchen concept from 9:00 to 00:00, is the latest trendy place for celebrations for this coming 2023. Taking  into account the advantage  and privilege we have of being able to enjoy an aperative, cocktail or any other drink on the terrace with good weather in any season of the year  on the Costa del Sol.

Let me tell you! It is going to be your favorite place of celebrations in 2023, and specially in view of the summer and the ambience that Marbella attracts during this time of the year. 

Kids also have their space in the playroom, this will allow parents ro enjoy a good tabletop without needing to take care of the little members of the house. 

You know where to find us, if not, on the bottom of the page, you can find our address  which will make it easy for you to come and enjoy all  we have prepared for you in Tragabuches Marbella Lounge.

Are you ready?

Make your booking as soon as possible!

Address: C. Ana de Austria, 2, 29670 Marbella, Málaga.

Five years later, Dani García returns with his Gastronomic Days ”A cuatro Manos” at Alelí Marbella. During February and March of this year, we will be able to enjoy a special menu.

Italian food which is included in the Mediterranean gastronomy. The story goes that Italian food was influenced by other countries such as Greece, Africa and Asian countries.

In Northern Italy, the most common dishes are soups, cooked pasta and meats boiled in wine and butter, and typical dishes such as carpaccio, vitello tonnato or vitel tonné and crocchette di Patate as well as risotto. Among its outstanding sauces are pesto and Bolognese.

On the other hand, in the South of Italy, the dishes are more simply prepared, with main ingredients such as olive oil, vegetables and vegetables typical of the area. The most typical dishes are pizzas, as well as spaghetti and macaroni.

There are also differences with the centre of the country, where ingredients such as olive oil, pecorino, vegetables and sausages are used. The most typical dishes are Bisteca allá Fiorentina, Zuppa di farro, pollo in potacchio and Mazzarelle.

Finally, in Sicily and Sardinia, we also find differences with the rest of Italy, such as rice balls in batter with peas, meat, cheese or macaroni with raggout, a sauce made with minced meat.

Dani García

The chef from Marbella organised in his restaurant with three Michelin stars a conference with renowned chefs from all over the world.

In 2014, our chef was already starting out in this field of the A Cuatro Manos Gastronomic Days, together with Joan Roca, Quique Dacosta, Ángel León and Andoni Luis Aduriz, which was held at the Dani García Restaurant in the Hotel Puente Romano in Marbella.

In 2015, they were they were once again in the Dani García Restaurant, together with 12 national and international Michelin-starred chefs, where they held four exclusive dinners.

In 2016, 71 Michelin stars gathered in Restaurant Dani García (Marbella) to pay tribute to French chef Jöel Robuchon.

In 2017, Dani García celebrated these days again, together with his chef friends to pay tribute to a great chef, Nobu Marsuhisa.

In 2018 was the last year that the gastronomic days ”A Cuatro Manos” were held at the Dani García Restaurant in the Hotel Puente Romano in Marbella. In which a new menu for the season was presented and in which a score of great chefs paid tribute to one of the progenitors of Basque cuisine, Juan Mari Arzak.

The last meeting was held in 2019 on the occasion of the closure of the three-star Dani García. The Last Supper brought together renowned figures in the city to bid farewell to the well-known restaurant that later gave rise to Leña Marbella.

Matías Perdomo

This year we bring you Dani García together with Matías Perdomo, a chef of Uruguayan origin who moved to Italy twenty years ago, on the 22^nd and 23^rd of February. He is at the helm of Contrast restaurant in Milan, his Michelin-starred temple of creativity opened in 2015. The chef considers three fundamental factors in his cuisine: the product, the game and the memory of taste.

Matías Perdomo, with his South American influence on Italian cuisine, is coming to revolutionize Alelí alongside our Chef Dani García for two unique and exclusive nights with a special menu.

If you don’t want to miss these special menus during these ”A cuatro manos” days…

Book now!

Here you have the address, so you don’t miss out!

Av. Bulevar Príncipe Alfonso de Hohenlohe, 29602 Marbella (Málaga)

‘’They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that’s true.’’- Big Fish (2003). 

According to Psychology, it is said that we have three kinds of love. Sometimes we live the three of them with the same person at the time we develop as a couple.

• Idealistic love, fairy-tale love, love that we believe will last a lifetime.
• Love out of necessity, out of doubt, the ups and downs of falling in love, the need to be loved.
• Unexpected love, out of the blue, more mature, we accept the other person as they are.

This is why love must be celebrated, with that person who came and changed our life ” Che confusione, sarà perché ti amo”. 

So, this Valentine’s Day, give the gift of an experience to remember which will tell you ‘’I remember that night better than some of the years of my life” Before Midnight (2004). 

GIVE THE GIFT OF QUALITY TIME

We will help you to prepare the experiences. You know that in BiBo ‘’We love you so brunch’’, and this day couldn’t be as (Roma)ntic, without an Italian diner, so present them with the gift of Alelí Flowers.

If you prefer something more sparkling, let the flame of love be noticed, add Leña to the fire!

Also, you can show your ‘’resalao’’ side in Lobito de Mar; or if you believe in the Japanese legend of the red thread, in Kemuri you can live an oriental experience.

LIVE THE MOST ROMANTIC EVENING

Of course, besides St. Valentine’s Day, you have something special to celebrate, let us know and we will do the magic.

So don’t forget to book your experience in your favorite restaurant, dedicate quality time to your partner and let us form a part of it, by mentioning us in your social networks. 

‘’ Isn’t everything we do in our lives in order to be loved a little more?’’ Before Sunrise (2004)

Pizza with or without pineapple? This famous controversial which splits the pizza lovers, is the reason why six years ago, 9 February was declared World Pizza Day. On this same day, but in 2017, the president of Iceland, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, opened this debate on twitter. It became popular to the point that UNESCO decided that pizza should be Intangible Heritage of Humanity (which is hardly surprising).

How this wonder arose?

Pizza’s origin, flatbread made with flour, egg, yeast, olive oil and salt, dates back to the 1830´s in the Italian city of Naples where ‘Port’Alba’ (‘white door’), the world’s first pizzeria, opened its doors.

Another story tells of the birth of pizza in 1889, date in which the chef Raffaele Esposito made the Margherita pizza to honor of the then Queen of Italy, Margarita de Saboya. This pizza is the most classic with ingredients such as tomato sauce, mozzarella, basil, oregano, and olive oil, the colours of the Italian flag, which is also the one that opened the door for the rest of the pizzas. Let’s look at the most famous pizzas.

Plenty of options to go crazy about

The four-cheese pizza, one of the most popular in the world. The four cheeses used has the Protected Designation of Origin certification: fontina cheese, gorgonzola cheese, parmesan cheese and mozzarella cheese; Neapolitan or Roman, the second most traditional in Italy. What distinguishes this pizza from the previous ones is its soft and spongy dough, slightly thicker than the orthodox Italian one, with thicker edges, as well as its ingredients: tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese, anchovies, oregano, capers and olive oil.

We also have the Diávola pizza, which is distinguished by the spicy flavour of its sauce, with ingredients such as chorizo, salami, even chilly; the barbecue pizza with barbecue sauce, as its name suggests, and minced meat, born in the United States; the pizza carbonara, which has no tomato on its base, with ingredients such as egg, bacon, onion, parmesan cheese, salt and pepper; finally, the calzone, a special pizza because it hides its ingredients inside (cheese, meat, tuna, vegetables, etc.), as it is covered with another pizza topping (cheese, meat, tuna, vegetables, etc.). It is covered by another dough of the same size as the base, in the shape of a pie.

International Pizza Day in Aleli

In Grupo Dani García, we love pizza that’s why our restaurant Alelí, arrived this last summer to get us addicted to their wooded oven pizzas, which are baked live in the traditional Neapolitan style, with a 48-hour fermentation.

A trip through the alpine country without having to leave Marbella, with its decoration inspired on the most authentic Italy with references such as ‘’ La dolce vita’’ by Federico Fellini or ‘’ The great beauty’’ by Paolo Sorrentino. You can enjoy  iconic dishes from the Italian kitchen, with the stamp of our chef, Dani García.

That’s why to celebrate this special day, between the week of 8th and 17th of February during  lunch from Wednesday to Friday ( 8^th, 9^th , 10^th ,15^th ,16^th and 17^th  of February), we bring you a special menu, 25€ per person, with aperitive Viejo Negroni, pizza to choose, desserts and drink which will allow you to enjoy the most spectacular place in Alelí, in its open-air terrace.

Imagine the good weather in Marbella, with tables among the orange and lemon trees… you will be transported to the Campania region, in particular Sorrento, which is located on the famous Gulf of Naples. It is known as ”Land of color’s, of mermaids, city of gardens’‘; or the Amalfi Coast with its hilltop villages, such as Positano, of which the painter Paul Klee said that it is the only vertical village in the world as it rises above a cliff, and a the deep blue sea.

So, if you are a pizza addict, come to Alelí Marbella and enjoy our special menu to celebrate this day.

Book now!