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Paco Marín, executive chef at NH Hotel Group and more than three decades of cooking behind him, captivated at their Summer Night Dinner at Chiringuito Tropical
Paco Marín (58), executive chef at NH Hotel Group, You already have a new miniature car on your shelf full of various miniature cars. Almost all Citroen 2CV. Now add a Renault 4 (R4), popularly known as Four Cans. It is the one who gave him Luis Benito (Chiringuito Tropical, Lanzarote) as a memory of his time in the Midsummer Night Dinners.
The prestigious chef, hardened in battles involving hundreds of diners - he had recently directed one of them at the Madrid Casino- He arrived at Benito's oasis taking advantage of his first days of vacation and prepared to meet those who had reserved that night to enjoy that warm experience..
Your dinner, like all the ones in this edition of Midsummer Night's Dinners, had nods to the book Traditional Lanzarote Cuisine, by Fefo Nieves: the impeccable Baked cherne with potatos and vegetables and the sweet tooth French toast with gofio ice cream. The rest of the dishes cradled the diner between the classic and a modernity nothing imposed. Artifices, the fair and necessary.
Marín served a kind of appetizers that started with the mythical Vegetable patch -in its Tropical Chiringuito version- very fine base creams - celeriac, cauliflower, Tatar-, crispy crumble and the plantation of impeccable knitted vegetables. Your cover letter, rotunda. A high bar at the start that the chef replicated in all passes with the ease that comes with enjoyment and the solidity of three decades directing services..
One after another they fell Crispy salmon and avocado, he Octopus with wrinkled potatoes and green mojo, the Eggplant and black garlic tartlet, he Katsu sando de anchoas, with his surprise olive, he Foie corn and a Prawn brioche and Thai sauce. A Aceviched sea bass with lime foam It was the bridge to the end of the party.
Between the aforementioned Cherne and La Torrija, Marín served a sublime Low temperature lamb with lemon puree. A dinner that everyone paired as they wanted. On this chronicler's table, an Annapurna Goddess of Crops (DO Almansa).
The memories of Paco Marín
The memory of that dinner, and added experience, It is already part of the luggage with which the chef travels Paco Marín. And the emotion with which he received the final detail delivered by Luis Benito and the affectionate applause of the tables. The miniature of Four cans read well parked along with other humble classics in the large bookstore at Paco and Pilar's home.
He R4, one of the symbols of Chiringuito Tropical -the other is the village chair, wooden- shares the spotlight with classics Matilde Asensi (everything under the sky), Ildefonso Falcones (The cathedral of the sea) o Isabel Allende (The city of beasts, daughter of fortune, The infinite plan, Portrait in sepia, The House of the Spirits), and wait for the detective Corazon Rodriguez He needs it to unravel what happened to the children of The wounded fog.
