Staff in the kitchen at Dani Garcia Restaurant © Dani Garcia |
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Dani Garcia, Three Michelin Star Restaurant - closed in November 2019
Dani Garcia
One of Andalucia's most renowned and respected chefs, known for his imagination and originality, Dani had two restaurants at the beachfront Hotel Puente Romano in Marbella. Dani was Malaga province's first chef with three Michelin stars, and only the second (after Angel Leon) in Andalucia. His eponymous three-starred restaurant at Puente Romano closed in November 2019.
Tapas and beers menu in celebrity chef Dani Garcia's Tragabuches restaurant in San Pedro Marbella. Cinco Jotas Iberian ham, Russian salad with Iberian ham, Slice of Spanish Potato omelette, Salmorejo and 100% Iberian acorn-fed lagarto ham with roasted red peppers. Monday to Friday 13,00 hrs.
The eponymous Dani Garcia restaurant served dishes such as carrot cup cake; nitro tomato ceviche; stew with mint and caviar; and millefeuille of caramelized green apple and goat cheese with foie and sour puree.
Dani trained with Martin Berasategui, and won his first star back in 2000 for his restaurant Tragabuches in Ronda. The Marbellan chef presided over Calima in the Hotel Gran Melia from 2005 to 2013, where he won his first star in 2007, and his second in 2010. For more about him, see our interview.
He won his third Michelin star in 2018 (his two stars from Calima were revalidated to Dani Garcia in 2014).
Dani was Malaga province's first chef with three Michelin stars, for his now-closed Dani Garcia restaurant, and only the second (after Angel Leon) in Andalucia.
He won his third Michelin star in November 2018 (his two stars from Restaurant CalimaCalima were revalidated to Dani Garcia in 2014).
In December 2018, Dani made the shock announcement via Social Media that his three-Michelin-starred restaurant would close on 22 October 2019, saying that was "fed up with haute cuisine". His "Last Supper", a farewell dinner on 15 November to close the restaurant, was attended by some of Spain's most renowned fellow Michelin-starred chefs, including Ferran Adria, Joan Roca and Quique Dacosta.
The eponymous Dani Garcia restaurant served dishes such as carrot cup cake; nitro tomato ceviche; stew with mint and caviar; and millefeuille of caramelized green apple and goat cheese with foie and sour puree.
Dani trained with Martin Berasategui, and won his first star back in 2000 for his restaurant Tragabuches in Ronda. The Marbellan chef presided over Restaurant Calima in the Hotel Gran Melia Don Pepe, Marbella from 2005 to 2013, where he won his first star in 2007, and his second in 2010.
