METT has introduced its signature hospitality to Southern Spain, with the opening of its beachside boutique lodge between Marbella and Estepona. With its spectacular 50 metre Azure Seashore Pool, MOI spa, fashionable seaside chiringuito restaurant, signature Italian eating and shortly a Greek restaurant, METT Lodge and Seashore Resort Estepona-Marbella is all about socialising, implausible eating and relishing the fashionable Mediterranean life-style.
Set proper on the one of many coast’s broad seashores, this new boutique resort of 249 rooms and suites gives friends, guests, and locals the possibility to be immersed in METT’s distinctive eating experiences that fuse gastronomy with feel-good music and leisure.
METT Lodge and Seashore Resort Estepona-Marbella brings a brand new flavour of vacation expertise to Andalucia’s Costa del Sol. Embodied by the resort’s tagline of Social Residing, friends are promised a vacation spot the place they can’t solely recharge and unwind within the solar, but additionally rejoice life and have enjoyable, having fun with eating, leisure, a spa and a METT’s ‘tranquil service model’.
As quickly as you arrive, you might be embraced by the property’s seductively summery really feel, with a phenomenal inside and exterior design that captures the attract of the Mediterranean. Numerous pure supplies, lush crops, and a harmonious mix of good white, with sea blues and earthy greens collectively create the right setting for a beachside break.
The check-in is skilled however relaxed. Sitting within the large atrium, you might be greeted with a welcome cocktail menu, and it’s from this second your vacation begins.
Gastronomy
METT eating is open to all, and a part of the thrill is the combination of native residents, guests and friends on the eating places and seaside membership. Giannis Toman is the Govt Chef at METT Lodge and Seashore Resort Estepona-Marbella. Along with his wealth of expertise and creativity in French, Spanish, Greek, Italian and fusion delicacies, Chef Toman is the best expertise to launch the signature eating experiences of METT.
Isola Ristorante Italiano
2023 has seen the opening of Isola, the model’s signature Ristorante Italiano, initially based in Dubai’s Jumeirah Islands Clubhouse. Isola Restaurant Estepona is a celebration of Mediterranean delicacies, taking principal inspiration from the south of Italy. This vacation spot restaurant expertise is about really selfmade dishes with a up to date menu of pasta and pizza in addition to different Italian favourites, accompanied by a powerful wine checklist from Italy and Spain.
Our expertise at Isola was spectacular. The dishes are expertly executed, and the elements are clearly high quality. We started with a basic carpaccio, wearing parmesan and rocket – very good. The burrata was beneficiant and creamy, deliciously easy, permitting the standard of the flavoursome elements to shine. The calamari is at all times a favorite of mine and right here it has a depth of flavour with glorious seasoning.
There’s additionally a menu of sunshine and scrumptious pinsa pizzas, which can be bursting with texture and flavour, but with out the heavy feeling of some doughy pizzas. The steak was top-of-the-line I’ve had on the coast in a very long time. Lastly, the Tiramisu didn’t disappoint with a lightness that’s matched by a creamy richness.
Cocktails have been artistic and fantastically introduced, whereas the wine checklist included the choice to take pleasure in totally different wines by the glass.
Isola has raised the bar for lodge eating and is worthy of its standing as a restaurant that guests will journey to.
Azure Seashore Pool & Restaurant
The 50-metre Azure Seashore Pool is on the coronary heart of METT Lodge and Seashore Resort Estepona-Marbella. Resident and visitor DJs set the tone all through the day, because the attentive staff provide a menu of refreshing juices, cocktails, and light-weight bites from the Azure Seashore menu.
There are cabana day beds, in addition to double sunbeds, and solar loungers on the seaside. What’s extra, you possibly can guide one of many seaside lounges, overlooking the sands, with non-public sizzling tub, day beds and desk service for meals and drinks.
From the pool, you possibly can catch glimpses of the seaside and sea past, connecting you to the fantastic thing about the vacation spot. Because the solar units, the pool sparkles with underwater lights and cocktails are served at El Bar de Lola.
The Chiringuito restaurant is correct on the seaside, fantastically styled with banana palms and picket furnishings. Count on a various selection of dishes together with sushi platers, pizza, yakitori skewers, wholesome salads like purple quinoa, and bowls together with salmon teriyaki. The wine checklist is nice and consists of native wines just like the scrumptious Cloe from Ronda.
Lodging
METT has a splendidly minimalist tackle the Mediterranean model, with shiny and ethereal rooms, adorned with pure components. Every room and suite is thoughtfully outfitted with a steamer for garments, a superb mini-bar with premium drinks, tea and coffee-making services together with an espresso machine and, within the lavatory, count on the signature METT facilities tailor-made for you. The lavatory facilities are by Botanyc – fabulously fragrant, with scents of Bergamot, Lychee and jasmine.
There are 6 room sorts and seven suite sorts. Friends can select from a wide range of areas, together with suite-up rooms with direct entry to a pool, and even two-bedroom suites and suites with massive non-public rooftop terraces. There’s an all day room service menu too.
Wellbeing
The MOI Spa is about to open for the 2024 season, providing an expensive wellbeing area together with an indoor pool, hydrotherapy circuit and therapy rooms.
RAISE Health is the health club providing with Technogym tools.
Bicycles are additionally accessible, an effective way to discover the world, because the boardwalk alongside the seaside runs for kilometres and is a protected and exquisite solution to get a really feel for the vacation spot. If you happen to’re tempted to discover additional, then the Visitor Expertise staff can advocate excursions and day journeys.
METT Lodge and Seashore Resort Estepona-Marbella is a really welcome addition to the Costa del Sol, bringing a brand new model of hospitality and a few very good gastronomy.
