Begin the countdown to 2023 and leave behind the memories of this 2022 that has flown by thanks to so many joyous and happy moments… Hand in hand with these memories come the famous resolutions that we promise ourselves every year that we will fulfil and leave most of those memories in the memory trunk, but this year we will make them all come true (or most of them at least) will come true.
¡Surprises are coming in 2023! But first, let us take a walk down memory lane and look back at all the events that we have experienced in this past year thanks to you…
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We started 2022 with Dani Garcia’s debut in New York with Casa Dani and Pollo Verde, which are two ”Typical Spanish” in the middle of the Big Apple.
We begin the summer with the inauguration of Alelí in Marbella. A trip to Italy through the Italian cuisine of Dani García.
We continue with Kemuri, the Asian cuisine of Dani Garcia reached your palates to stay at the Puente Romano Hotel
The most famous brioche in the history of the Brioches, celebrates its first anniversary with Bibo, in Madrid and in Shoreditch (London).
We end the year with Tragabuches Marbella, to soak up the gastronomy of our Andalusian land.
So, in these next 12 months, we hope to enjoy what is to come together with you.
Tragabuches Madrid
Are you ready for all the promises for next year?
The Dani Garcia Group wishes you a happy and prosperous New Year!
Picasso once said, “Everything that can be imagined is real”. Under this same premise, the Dani García Group brings to Madrid its first cocktail bar, a multi-sensory space inspired by art galleries and antique collections, and which is hidden in the bowels of the BiBo restaurant of the capital.
“El Coleccionista” is a place where art comes to life through its exceptional liquid offers, in a space where sophistication and casualness coexist. In it, past, present, and future come together to create a unique experience that allows you to enjoy the efficiency of time, all with a purely artistic approach that offers the possibility not only of drinking authentic works of art but also of acquiring collectible items.
Its proposal is based on a gastronomic cocktail where technology and research are in harmony with creativity and imagination. In this way, up to a hundred techniques are used from the elite of the gastronomic avant-garde worldwide, applied in the search of flavour.
El Coleccionista Madrid
The liquid menu is the undisputed protagonist of “El Coleccionista.” Consisting of twelve alcohol cocktails, made with techniques ranging from redistillations to fermentations, through fat-washes, centrifuges, ultrasounds, dealcoholisation, illusions, or textures. Highlights include drinks such as “Oil on canvas”, in which both the bartender and the customer will paint this work of drinking art together choosing from a special selection of ingredients; or “Ymanyá”, inspired by the goddess of the sailors and sea crossings. Made from an ultrasound extraction of white rum in nettles from the Mediterranean Sea with an extraction of generous hibiscus flower from the Red Sea, spices from the Black Sea and balanced with a touch of smoked dates from the Persian Sea. Finally, it incorporates a tuile of pistachios from the Arabian Sea, a fake coffee caviar, garum from the Caspian Sea and a bergamot gel from the Adriatic Sea.
On the other hand, there are three limited edition cocktails, which complement the proposal of the space as if it were a private collection. They will be available until the end of stock and incorporate distillates and vintage products that will delight a lucky few.
Like any good collection room, this space also has a unique and unrepeatable repertoire only available for ten people worldwide. With the name “The club of 10”, a cocktail will be created from irretrievable bottles that will be auctioned; once the bid is closed, the customer will define the price of the ten only units available, and his initials will be written on the Collector’s letter with the bid date and the name of the cocktail. Another aspect that makes the difference is that the whole cocktail menu is also available in its non-alcoholic version, maintaining the same organoleptic properties.
El Coleccionista Madrid
The culinary proposal has a complementary role in “El Coleccionista” formed by a small selection that includes some of the most iconic dishes and snacks of chef Dani Garcia. Among them, its emblematic brioches, starters such as grilled edamame and a couple of sweet options. In parallel, there is also room for coffee, and during the first hour of opening, the space will feature two fun versions of coffee accompanied by some special mignardises.
With a capacity of up to twenty-eight diners, “El Coleccionista” thus becomes the new space of the Malaga chef in the capital, after its opening last September of the restaurant Tragabuches in Marbella.
The December holiday returns, a few days of rest in the middle of the routine, and with it the pre-Christmas plans in family or with friends, Christmas lights, trips, lunch, and dinner… We bring you our list of favourite plans for these days in Spain or for more travel lovers.
The Spanish have again chosen the big cities of Europe for a pre-Christmas getaway, Madrid, Malaga, London, Budapest, Dublin… are some of the best bets for this long weekend for the Christmas atmosphere that inspire, in addition to the lighting itself for the occasion.
Alelí Marbella
Let us start with the capital, Madrid, and the wide variety of plans it offers:
Visit the market of the Plaza Mayor, Ice skating (Plaza de España, in Matadero, in the Crystal Gallery of the Palacio de Cibeles or in the Plaza de Colón) but… ¡ Huston, we have a problem! We need to recharge to face all these plans… we have the solution to make your belly smile again with meat, fish, tapas, sushi, Whatever you want!
We continue in Malaga with its characteristic lighting of Calle Larios; and since we are on the Costa del Sol, we cannot leave without visiting Marbella, with its Christmas lighting and its historic centre, Christmas markets… What better opportunity to enjoy Christmas and at the same time as the Andalusian cuisine, than in our restaurant Tragabuches, we also have options if you fancy meat, firewood, or fish? Lobito de Mar… although if you are more international, you can also travel to Italy with Alelí or Asia with Kemuri.
BiBO London
On the other hand, and for the more travel lovers London is another great bet for this long weekend, with its characteristic flea markets and its streets illuminated for the occasion. In London you cannot miss Winter Wonderland, a giant Christmas fair in Hyde Park, with attractions, ice skating rink, Christmas markets… Are you nostalgic or tired of so many fish & chips? Do not worry be happy, in BiBo Londres we are waiting for you to teleport to Spain.
Obviously, we cannot forget to support ”La Roja” in Qatar. For all those who have travelled to the Qatari capital to enjoy this world cup, we have the solution to make them feel at home, do you fancy meat? Firewood, you fancy a more sea breeze, Lobito de Mar and if you prefer something more tapas style, BiBo Doha.
A new restaurant arrives on the shores of Marbella. In this case, it is an old acquaintance. Dani García returns to his origins with Tragabuches, which opened its doors on Saturday 24 September.
It was in 1998 when Tragabuches opened in Ronda, a restaurant in which Dani García would be at the head of the kitchen. A Km. 0 restaurant, avant-garde and multi-awarded, where the product and the process were the main protagonists in this concept. Today, 24 years later, Tragabuches opens its doors in the chef’s hometown, Marbella.
Tragabuches is described as pure Andalusian cuisine, culture and product. A refuge to enjoy the flavours of Andalusia with the family. This philosophy is identified in the space, being calm and without artifice. This space will be well differentiated in two, a lounge with a menu which will include a section dedicated to Andalusian Iberian ham, Andalusian cheeses, vegetables, cured meats, eggs… On the other hand we find the bar, which will have tapas, and other dishes that will be exclusive there.
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BREAKFAST
For the first time in the history of the Dani García Group, it will offer breakfasts. Therefore, Tragabuches is a “Non-Stop” kitchen model, starting from 9:00 with these breakfasts, until closing (00:00), passing through the bar area and arriving until the opening of the dining room. In these breakfasts, you will be able to enjoy the breakfasts that all Andalusians have come to enjoy.
CULINARY AND LIQUID PROPOSAL
At Tragabuches we serve dishes that we have eaten all our lives. Each product will have a name and surname, as it will come from a specific crop and a special farmer. Vegetables, eggs, rice, fish…
Tragabuches is to savour Andalusia from all the “costaos” along with a liquid proposal with a historical journey through well-known Spanish wines such as Marqués de Murrietas del Castillo Ygay1925 or CVNE Imperial gran reserva 1928, also offering some more recent ones such as Alión 1991.
WE KNOW WHAT WE LIKE BUT WITH A BIT OF A SPARK
A place for the whole family, where children have a special space for themselves. In this way, parents can enjoy a good meal while the children enjoy themselves in the playroom. A children’s area equipped with amenities and designed for children’s entertainment.
After this opening, the Dani García Group increases the gastronomic offer in the city of Marbella. This time, Andalusian cuisine awaits you.
Address: C. Ana de Austria, 2, 29670 Marbella, Málaga.
The Malaga chef welcomes the autumn season with new concepts and openings in Marbella.
After an intense summer with the openings of Kemuri, where the chef pays tribute to Japan, and the Italian restaurant Alelí, Dani returns to its origins with Tragabuches, a pure Andalusian restaurant.
With these new concepts, Dani García returns to the routine of exploring other international cuisines, as he did a few months ago with Babette, being a tribute to French cuisine in Marbella. With Tragabuches the Andalusian style is recovered and that traditional cuisine with which the chef made his way through the industry, and where he was awarded his first Michelin star.
ALELÍ
Since July, italian restaurant Alelí has been Dani García’s new bet on Italian cuisine. A restaurant inspired by the most authentic, beautiful and decadent Italy, and with references such as “La dolce Vita” by Federico Fellini or “La Gran Belleza” by Paolo Sorrentino, the restaurant offers an experience that focuses on the quality of raw materials and technique. It is a classic osteria that offers a gastronomic trip to the diner through the regions of Piedmont, Lombardy, Lazio, Campania or Sicily, and that has its culmination in the courtyard, a terrace full of colour and vegetation, which is a window to the Amalfi coast.
PIZZA STRACCIATELLAPROFITEROL XXLLA GRAN SELEZIONE DI ALELÍ
KEMURI
On the other side of this iconic courtyard is Kemuri, a journey to more traditional Japanese cuisine, inspired by sushi bars and the age-old gastronomic culture of the city of Kyoto with the seal of Dani Garcia. With capacity for a maximum of 45 diners, it is an exclusive place that brings the cuisine of the Japanese country all day and at night transforms into Kurai, a cocktail bar where you can sample a varied menu with exclusive cocktails inspired on the history of the Five National Treasures of Japan.
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TRAGABUCHES
With Tragabuches, on the other hand, Dani García recovers one of the first restaurants with which he managed to consolidate himself in the national gastronomic panorama. Originating in Ronda in 1998, it now arrives in Marbella with a proposal of traditional cuisine aimed at all audiences. Thus, Tragabuches is Andalusia in its purest state, a place where you can breathe its culture in every corner and where the local product and proximity will be the main axis. Your menu will not be missing spoon dishes and lifelong recipes, but adapted to the present times.
