The White Dragon room, soul of Crudito.
Raised among fishermen in Barcelona, Emil Samper He always says that he learned about cooking by watching his grandmother and on his father's fishing boat. Later, his gastronomic curiosity led him to travel and learn around the world and to the program of master chef (in its second season), where he was one of the most beloved contestants, he thanks him for his professionalization and recognition. But if you ask him when you are on the other side of the table that he dreamed of so much in the restaurant that he had so much imagined, he answers very quickly and very clearly: he always liked to cook for friends.
And after many dinners with friends and for friends at his house, he is the origin and essence of Crudito, the restaurant that Emil Samper had been planning in his head for three years.
La Cueva, Crudito's secret space.
raw is a celebration space, to celebrate life, says Samper, and the best thing in life is eating and eating with friends. That is why the soul of this place in the heart of Madrid, in La Latina, is the white dragon room, a bar table with new seats that overlook the live cooking show that Emil Samper performs every Friday and Saturday night (and some more if requested in time), where he prepares, serves and treats you like any other friend, and makes make the diner feel at home, like at home.
Samper in Crudito.
At White Dragon, Samper offers his **tasting menu (it has two, 10 and 15 dishes)** in which he shows all the research he has done and continues to do to discover new flavors. According to the chef, “Crudito is not raw, but it is not cooked either. Crudito are not dogmas, it is freedom”.
That translates to a menu that he has called interlingual, in tribute to bladerunner, his favorite movie and the one that somewhat inspires the whole restaurant and his own culinary philosophy, in which fusion is already outdated, is a fact.
On the menu, with dishes that are also on the menu, he plays with recipes that we know, which are even trending today, to rediscover them by adding unexpected ingredients. As the Malaysian guacamole with salmon chips or the ceviche with fruit juice.
The best Masterchef dish.
His famous dish Green curry with squid fettucine, "the best Masterchef dish" that closes the marine part is also part of this Interlingua that ends with some Nicanores of Bonar, a traditional sweet from Leonese cuisine and valued in Madrid that Samper unexpectedly combines with a turmeric ice cream.
Red Light District is called this dish.
The superfoods and the probiotics They are the fundamental basis of Crudito's cuisine. Just like those parts of the fish that are normally thrown away like the emperor's marrow. Samper works with a bacteriologist and assures: "Everything you eat, I have tried it before for months, even fasting."
There is a lot of work behind each dish and recipe in Crudito, but Samper presents it in a different way each time, he likes the improvisation , move without a script in his kitchen, let creativity guide you.
His logo says it all: “In Crudito the pig has the face of a salmon, the leg of a wild boar and the body of an artichoke, but it is still an animal”.
Icelandic stew.
WHY GO
For feeling at home, but to be able to leave saying: "I have eaten things that you would not believe." His famous squid fettucine and the Nicanores (made just for him in a mini and a half size) with turmeric ice cream are well worth the visit.
If it can be at the White Dragon table to celebrate good food with the chef himself, all the better, but its other two spaces, the dining room Sushi & Cocktails either Cave, they are also a tasting of the entire Crudito philosophy.
Nigiri Joselito, the merger is a fact.
ADDITIONAL FEATURES
All the ideas that Emil Samper has non-stop and not only gastronomic, but also cultural-gastronomic. We remain expectant to his desire to launch some musical days Y cinephiles in Raw.
IN DATA
Redondilla Street, 7
Telephone: 660 47 40 59
Schedule: From Wednesday to Sunday from 8:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m.
Price: White Dragon tasting menu €75. Average menu price: €30.
www.crudito.es