De la vida al plato

Joan, Pitu, and Jordi Roca started helping the family business as a game, taking orders or filling bottles of wine, and little by little that game became true passion for cooking.

Their history goes side by side with the last 70 years of Spanish History. International personalities such as Ronald Regan, the Shah of Persia, and world renown artists as Ava Gardner or Justin Bieber.

In Castroverde de Campos, a village in rural Spain, there is a place of culinary pilgrimage: the best game meat restaurant in Spain.

The Cordoban chef Paco Morales is considered the prodigy of his generation. In just three years, he has obtained two Michelin stars. His restaurant Noor is one of the most original and groundbreaking gastronomical proposals of the country.

Etxebarri’s Chef Bittor Arginzóniz, has been described as “the cook that has controlled fire” because he is the best grill chef in the world and has been able to grill ingredients as atypical as elvers or egg yolks.

The restaurant with the oldest Michelin star in Galicia, Spain is the story of a family that has known to reinvent itself through history. From an outdoor restaurant to eating house, to grand cuisine restaurant.

Echaurren was opened in 1898, and since then five generations of cooks have inherited the business and gathered stories and awards, and among those are three national Gastronomy awards and two Michelin stars.

The story of Ricard Camarena is not vocational as he started cooking by chance. He had been a musician and a stonecutter, but as he only enjoyed himself when cooking for friends, he chose to study cooking.