Michelin Guide 2015: the journey towards the product
Aponiente is the only one new two stars Bravo for that Angel surnamed León and the crew of his ship, bravo for Juanlu and Juan Ruiz and the rest of the team stranded in El Puerto de Santa María. It was the hour of Aponiente.
Madrid on fire : DSTAgE , La Cabra , Punto MX , Montia and Álbora new restaurants with a star on the breakwater of all Spain. The list of the rest of the winners is down there, so let me put the magnifying glass on the following winners: Casa Manolo in Daimús, Elkano in Getaria and Montia in San Lorenzo de El Escorial —3 temples whose maximum is to pay homage to the product and essentiality in your kitchen. Perhaps Michelin is telling us: enough nonsense. Let's go back to the table. Or as we already shout from our Manifesto for a true gastronomy: you will love the product above all things and the taste as yourself.
More conclusions: Pakta in Barcelona, Punto MX in Madrid and Kazan in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, three kitchens that represent three gastronomic universes “from abroad” being the red one so little given to fusion and oriental proposals throughout the last decade (Kabuki, Two Chopsticks and Koy Shunka). The guide looks towards fusion and Peruvian, Mexican and Oriental cuisines. So yes.
Product and fusion versus avant-garde and room. Bravo.
As for the 3 stars, everything remains the same: Akelarre, Martín Berasategui and Arzak in Guipuzcoa, Azurmendi in Vizcaya, DiverXO in Madrid, El Celler de Can Roca in Girona, Sant Pau in Sant Pol del Mar and Quique Dacosta in Dénia.
The temple of Getaria: Elkano
NOVELTIES OF THE RED GUIDE 2014
Two Michelin stars: aponiente one michelin star :
-Madrid: DSTAgE, La Cabra, Punto MX, Montia and Álbora - Balearic Islands: Can Dani, Andreu Genestra and Simply Fosh
- Basque Country: Aizian, Elkano - Castile and Leon: La Lobita, Retuerta Abbey LeDomaine
- Barcelona : Pakta- Canary Islands: kazan
- Valencia : Manolo House - Asturias : The Llanes Retreat
- Galicia : Not going - Castilla la Mancha : El Carmen de Montesion
- Aragon : Tatau Bistro
They keep their three Michelin stars : Akelarre , MartÍn Berasategui , Arzak , Azurmendi , DiverXO , El Celler de Can Roca , Sant Pau and Quique Dacosta
They lose their star: L'Aliança d'Anglès and La Llar (Alicante), Rodrigo de la Calle (Aranjuez), 41º (Barcelona), Ars Natura (Cuenca), Mas Pau (Girona), Julio (Valencia), Zalacaín (Madrid), Bal d Onsera (Zaragoza).
Portugal : gets his second star Belcanto (José Avillez's restaurant), in Lisbon
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