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Nacho Manzano and Braulio Simancas starred in a closing event in Costa Mágica marked by dialogue between territories, product and landscape
Perhaps I should begin this chronicle by specifying that the closure of Landscapes on the Plate in Magic Coast It wasn't exactly a dinner over the Atlantic. It was something more interesting: a conversation between territories. aside, the vegetal look, cold, precise and almost moist Nacho Manzano, built from the memory of Martial House, in La Salgar (Arriondas, Asturias) with three Michelin Stars, Green Star and Three Suns Repsol. to the other, the recognizable kitchen, saline and deep Braulio Simancas, un Sol Repsol y Bib Gourmand Michelin, one of the chefs who has best known how to bring the Canarian pantry to contemporary language. between both, The Lagoon: its coast, your products, his sweet memory and that landscape of the north of Tenerife performed by Landscapes on the plate, initiative consolidated by The Showromm Mag, personalized in Antonio Rosales -owner of an innate sensitivity for hospitality- and all his team.
The project is based precisely on that idea: Tenerife not only as a postcard, but as sensitive matter; not only as a destination, but as a landscape that can be told from a plate, a product or an emotion. The organization itself defines each edition as an encounter between landscape, cocina, local product, sustainability and experience.
The scenario reinforced the meaning of the proposal. Magic Coast, conceived as a boutique hotel facing the ocean, work an experience linked to the rhythm of the sea, to the Atlantic views, to well-being and a gastronomic offer that claims local and natural ingredients within a cuisine with a Mediterranean vocation and kilometer zero. It was not a neutral place: dinner needed horizon, breeze and a certain marine theatricality so that the speech did not remain locked in the table.
The menu started with Nacho Manzano, but not from an imitation of the Canarian landscape, but from your own world. That's the key. The Asturian chef did not come to disguise himself as foreign territory, but to contribute yours: the sensitivity of the garden, vegetable acidity, dairy fineness, the elegant cold, the forest and the mountain that in Martial House they dialogue with the Cantabrian. Your sequence —celery curd, started, cucumber and sorrel granita; white asparagus, asparagus ice cream, caviar and borage flower; perrechico, elderflower and pine nuts— worked as a sharp aperture, more suggestive than literal.
Then it came Braulio Simancas and dinner changed temperature. With him a more direct Canary Islands appeared, more recognizable and more palatable. roasted pepper, salted and mashed coriander cherne It was a very precise synthesis of sea, salting and mortar. Canary black pig, marinade and offal took the menu towards rural memory, the helmet, the use and that popular cuisine that does not need makeup to be contemporary. The sweet section completed the story from La Laguna. Naira Domínguez and Marta Santos, of La Princesa by Free Heart, presented a Bajamar natural pool with goat cheese, pineapple and sable of gofio. The plate had something of a postcard, Yeah, but also intelligent appropriation of the landscape.
The bread of Zulay Bakery and coffee with mini pastries Lopez Echeto They finished placing the dinner in the municipality.
The result was a closing with more reading than spectacle. Landscapes on the Plate it did not close with a simple display of names, but with a more complex gastronomic idea: demonstrate that a territory can also be counted by contrast.
In a time when so many gastronomic dinners are too similar to each other, This one had at least one virtue.: he did not confuse landscape with scenery. He used it as an argument. And in Costa Mágica, with the ocean in the background, that difference was noticed.
