Andalusian Michelin stars meet in Marbella to promote Haute Cuisine

Eight restaurants in Andalusia with a Michelin star will meet for the first time next Sunday, April 25th in Marbella (Malaga) during an informal day aimed to promote the Haute Cuisine of the region and highlight it´s growing importance and value.

This event, held to mark the tenth anniversary of the restaurant El Lago de Marbella, will start in the morning and conclude with a dinner where each restaurant will offer its most emblematic dish.

The event will start at 11 AM at Greenlife Golf Club where is located El Lago and will culminate with a dinner hosted by all, in which each restaurant will offer its most distinctive dish. The event has enormous symbolic value, as it is the first time the Andalusian restaurants with a Michelin star join to show the enormous strength of the Haute Cuisine of the region. 

The peculiarity of Andalusian cuisine on the international scene is "its strong personality, reflecting the spirit and tradition of the land and the continuing use of products of their immediate surroundings," according to the organizers.

This first meeting not only adds an enormous value to national gastronomy; it also has significance due the importance of tourism in this region and the elemental role of cuisine in improving the quality and performance of this sector.

Specifically, from Marbella will be present the director of El Lago de Marbella, Francisco Garcia and chef Diego River, Dani García of Calima and Mark Granda, Daniel Trochi and Victor Rosado of Skina. From Malaga will be present the Café de Paris, with its chef and owner Jose Carlos Garcia and from Ronda will be present Benito Gomez, from Tragabuches.

From Seville will come chef Julio Fernandez Quintero of Abantal;  from the province of Almería will come José Alvarez of La Costa in El Ejido, and Alejandro Sanchez of Restaurante Alejandro in Roquetas de Mar, added to the list 2009, as has been stated from El Lago.

The idea of the event came from the director of this restaurant. "It was born as a gathering of friends who want to have a good day and put their experience and knowledge in common." Garcia, a defender of Andalusian Haute Cuisine and products of the country, has said that this food "has its own personality thanks to the long culinary history and a pantry unique in the world, with fish, vegetables, meat and outstanding wines. "