Michelin distributes new stars to 31 restaurants: Smoked Room makes history by getting two at once

A total of 33 restaurants have achieved their first Michelin star at a gala held in Valencia and which has been marked by the reunion -in a face-to-face format after the virtual delivery last year due to the pandemic- and the rise of “young talent” throughout the Peninsula.

In addition, the Michelin Guide Spain & Portugal 2022 leave four establishments that conquer two stars: Amelia by Paulo Airaudo (San Sebastián); Voro (Canyamel, Mallorca); Smoked Room (Madrid) and Iván Cerdeño (Toledo). For their part, the eleven chefs with three stars repeat.

The surprise of the presentation gala has been for Smoked Room, which It has received two stars directly – it is usual to give them one by one in Spain – after opening in June.

Behind this small space dedicated to the grill where diners they submit to the designs of the young Massimiliano Delle Vedove in an “omakase” menuThere is the Malaga chef and businessman Dani García, who a year after receiving the third star in the restaurant that bore his name in Marbella, closed it to dedicate himself to a wider audience and in multiple countries.

The 2022 selection has been unveiled in the auditorium of the Palau de les Arts de València, in a ceremony conducted by Ana Milan, and includes 1,362 restaurants in Spain, Portugal and the Principality of Andorra, Among which are 11 three-star restaurants, 40 two-star one -33 in Spain and seven in Portuguese territory-, 211 one star and 284 Bib Gourmand.

The list of ‘biestrellados’ incorporates four projects. Amelia by Paulo Airaudo, in Donostia, is an intimate place next to La Concha beach that “skillfully mixes Basque gastronomy with culinary influences from Argentina, Italy and Japan in a particularly creative tasting menu.”

For its part, Voro, located in Canyamel, on the island of Mallorca, he offers chef Alvaro Salazar’s dishes with “a reinterpretation of timeless Mediterranean and Mallorcan recipes”, while at Smoked Room, a fashionable address in Madrid, the young Massimiliano Delle Vedove “demonstrates mastery of the techniques cooking on charcoal “.

By last, the restaurant Iván Cerdeño, named after its chef, “pays tribute to La Mancha products with creative and innovative compositions.”

In spite of a year “especially complex for the gastronomic sector”, the Michelin Guide notes “an impressive number of new star restaurants”. In Spain, 27 new establishments spread throughout most of the country receive their first distinction.

They are Alejandro Serrano (Miranda de Ebro), Arrels (Sagunt), Atalaya (Alcossebre), Atempo (Barcelona), Auga e Sal (Santiago de Compostela), Ayalga (Ribadesella), Cañabota (Seville), Casona del Judío (Santander ), Coto de Quevedo (Torre de Juan Abad), Deessa (Madrid), El Rincón de Juan Carlos (Adeje-Tenerife), El Serbal (Santander), Fierro (València), Garena (Dima), Kaido Sushi Bar (València) , La Gaia (Ibiza), Lera (Castroverde de Campos), Lienzo (València), Ment by Oscar Calleja (Salamanca), Nintai (Marbella), Nub (Adeje-Tenerife), Nublo (Haro), Peix & Brases (Dénia) , Poems by Hermanos Padrón (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria-Gran Canaria), Quimbaya (Madrid), Versatile (Zarza de Granadilla) and Zaranda (Palma-Mallorca).

In the maximum category of three stars, no news has been registered and They have renovated the Arbor of Amos (Villaverde de Pontones, Cantabria), with Jesús Sánchez as chef, as well as AbAc (Barcelona), by Jordi Cruz, DiverXO (Madrid), by Dabiz Muñoz, and Appointing (Puerto de Santa María, in Cádiz), by Ángel León.

The Basques Lasarte (Martín Berasategui and Paolo Casagrande) and Martín Berasategui also remain; Akelarre (Donostia), by Pedro Subijana; El celler de Can Roca (Girona), by the Roca brothers; Quique Dacosta (Dénia), by chef Quique Dacosta; Azurmendi (Bilbao), by Eneko Atxa, and Arzak, by Elena Arzak.