On July 25 will premiere Dining On Design, a short film starring the restaurant Smoked Room, the Malaga chef Dani Garcia. Restaurant & Bar Design Awards, produces and bets for the first time in showing haute cuisine and design through a documentary project.
The Smoked Room restaurant has been chosen by Restaurant & Bar Design Awards as the first to be presented through the screens with Dining On Design, and it has shown its charm since it opened its doors in 2021. Six months after its opening, and located in the Hyatt Regency Hesperia Madrid hotel, the venue was awarded 2 Michelin stars.
During the 18-minute short film, the creative process behind the restaurant is revealed. Inspired by traditional Japanese bars, just 14 diners can sample dishes made a la brasa, watching the chefs cooking inches away. The smoked dishes are one of the central elements of the cuisine, using smoke as a garnish. Smoked Room offers the Omakase proposal, a word that means to put yourself in the chef’s hands, to trust him while enjoying the gastronomic journey. The gastronomic proposal changes according to the seasonal products along with a personalized pairing.
Ala Zreigat and Óscar Engroba, founders of Astet Studio
In addition to the Malaga chef and his restaurant as protagonists, on the other hand, the design of the premises is represented by Astet Studio. Ala Zreigat and Óscar Engroba, co-founders of the Barcelona studio, have been able to materialize Dani García’s vision when it comes to creating a space with Nipponese essence. It is not the first time they have worked with him, as they also participated in the Lobito de Mar seafood restaurant in Madrid. Bringing a very sophisticated aesthetic uniting wood, stone and fire. Getting with it the Global Winners award in the Small Space Category in the 2022 edition of Restaurant & Bar Design Awards.
Chef Dani García, one of the protagonists of the documentary project Dining On Design.
In this way, Dining On Design is presented as an audiovisual project that becomes a dialogue between design and gourmet cuisine found in the best restaurants and bars in the world. Their viewing will be available through the Restaurant & Bar Design Awards website from July 25, 2023. As for the next edition of the awards, the list of finalists will be released in early August, and the ceremony with the winners will be held on October 19.
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