Three Asturian restaurants reach the final of the National Pinchos Competition

Three Asturian restaurants have been chosen to compete in the National Pinchos and Tapas Competition of the city of Valladolid, the main reference for haute cuisine in tapas format at national and international level. More than 250 chefs submitted their gastronomic proposals to the competition but only 45 reached the final.

Among them, three Asturians – three from Gijón – who have passed the jury’s screening and will be showcasing their culinary skills in Valladolid from 11 to 12 November at the Millennium Dome, to compete for the title of National Tapas Champion 2024 and their impending awards. will perform. In the twentieth edition of the competition.

Luis Menéndez, of Alalunga Taberna Marinera, will compete with ‘Cabeza de Vaca’, a proposal with which he won the Gijón Pinchos Championship, which he had already won last year with ‘Bocata de Espina de Bonito’.

With an incredible presentation that simulates a head of beef, its preparation involves crispy butter, tomato powder and egg that hides the beef tartare and beef cuts seasoned with mustard, olive oil, soy, chives and shallots. Happens with emulsion of.

In this latest edition of Gijón de Pinchos, an event organized by Iván de la Plata’s Fenicia Marketing Gourmet Company, Fernando Viñuela of Mamaguaja restaurant competed with ‘Refrigario’. She won a silver medal with a recipe that has been her passport to competing in the national competition. Tapa consists of Mexican squid stew and crispy Vietnamese bread filled with Asturian beef marrow.

The Asturian triad is completed with ‘Tas Fechu un Zabalín’ by Chef Mariano Mier of El Quinto Restaurant. With this tenacity he represented Otea in the second edition of Tapas and Pinchos – the official hospitality championship of Spain, organized by the Spanish Hospitality Association within the framework of Madrid Fusión. This proposal from Mariano Meier had already won the Asturias Pinchos and Tapas Championship last year.

The jury of the National Pinchos and Tapas Competition will be chaired by Chef Tono Pérez of the historic Atrio restaurant in Cáceres.