ANDALUCÍA - CÁDIZ - EL PUERTO DE SANTA MARIA - APONIENTE - VISIT 1

Jul 7, 2020
2 min read

APONIENTE Two Michelin Stars

Chef de Mar, led by Ángel León Gonzales, has earned its third Michelin star in its newly relocated ultra-modern restaurant. The restaurant is situated in a converted 18th-century flour mill that overlooks the estuary and appropriately faces the sea, right on the banks of the Guadalete River.

Originally reviewed in 2015, the restaurant has since moved to new premises and now boasts three Michelin stars. The previous location has been transformed into an upscale tapas bar/restaurant, which is now called...

LA TABERNA DEL CHEF DEL MAR

Calle Puerto Escondido, 6, 11500 El Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz

+34 956 11 20 93

The old restaurant, located on a side street in the port of El Puerto de Santa María, was where we enjoyed this particular meal. Chef Ángel León gained fame by transforming traditional seafood and fish ingredients, essentially giving them a molecular twist, into exquisite dishes like those featured on the tasting menu below.

Tortillitas de camarones (the locally famous, brown shrimp fritters)

Raspberry trampantojo, embryonic yolk, cured soy breaded flying fish roe, seasoned with a subtle touch of wasabi.

Grilled sardines cooked on olive stones, dressed in fried flakes and served on a meringue of sardine fat and tapioca.

Pickled oyster with chamomile and soy, oyster powder, foam oyster, oyster leaf and plankton

Gazpachuelo (fish soup and mayonnaise), with mussels, sea jelly, nitro rocks, tomato water and plankton.

Monkfish cheeks in squid ink

Sea urchin cone, marinated mackerel (3 minutes at 70 degrees) and mayonnaise, made with the marinade itself, sea asparagus, fermented radish and plankton.

Squid tagliatelle

Fish frankfurter

Pijota cococha (small hake), breadcrumbs in green sauce and garlic flower nasturtium

Plankton, plankton and plankton, served on a wafer, jelly, seawater and a vaporised citrus.

Carpaccio of octopus, seasoned with a gelatinous bay broth and sea cucumbers.

Sultana, coconut and yoghurt.

Candy, salt, corn foam, chocolate, tea and smoked oil.

Refreshing cannelloni, pineapple, and sweet-sour apple with tiger mussel cocoa.

There are two menus to choose from, €150 to €185.

And two wine-pairing menus, €57 or €75.

Be aware that the wine pairing is all sherry, and with 24 courses of food and 24 glasses of sherry from 12 different sherries, this can be a bit overpowering! There are, of course, excellent unfortified wines to choose from.

The service provided is friendly, knowledgeable, and highly efficient. However, it would be helpful if they informed guests who may not be familiar with wine pairings that all pairings feature sherry. While sherry is indeed a type of wine, drinking it throughout the meal can be quite heavy and might confuse some diners.

APONIENTE

Calle Francisco Cossi Ochoa, 11500 El Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz

+34 956 85 18 70

Twitter: Aponiente chefdelmar

www.aponiente.com

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