Even within the top of summer season, when Puente Romano Marbella is at its fullest and La Plaza is alive with folks and music, there’s a way of calm only a few steps away. In an adjoining constructing, surrounded by gardens, one finds PurOsushi, housed in a chic and composed Japanese-styled restaurant.
Solely 14 friends are served at every omakase, seated at a sophisticated, blond wooden U-shaped counter for one in all two sittings.
We arrived for the later, at 9.30 pm, starting with cocktails (xpertly ready by Sergio, the sommelier) within the lounge simply exterior the eating room. The area is modern, softly lit, and prepares you for what’s to return, a quiet, targeted encounter between visitor and chef.
Chef Andrés Médici leads one aspect of the counter, his son Agus the opposite. Each stand as we sit. The chairs are excessive, inserting us at eye degree with the cooks as they start their work. The knives glide. The fish is sliced, the wasabi freshly grated. It is a household effort from the beginning. Andrés’ spouse Ivana welcomes friends, whereas their daughter Abril is attentive all through.
The meal begins with a bento field of small seasonal dishes, together with sunomono de pepino, wakame, and scallop. A ceramic bowl cradles every component with intention. Then, the nigiri: 9 in whole, together with a number of cuts of tuna with various levels of richness, every balanced and brushed with simply sufficient tare and a few with a contact of wasabi. There’s crimson mullet, sea bream, and mackerel, with every chew formed and served with out haste.
After the nigiri, a small ceramic cup of miso soup arrives, savoury and clear with only a garnish of chive. Then, the tuna roll, ready simply in entrance of us. Andrés rolls and cuts it with quiet precision, the seaweed gently holding every thing in place. A temaki of eel is handed throughout the counter, heat, mushy, deeply satisfying. Then the ultimate chew of this extraordinary omakase is delicate and candy, a home made mochi, full of white chocolate and yuzu.
There’s a number of wine and sake for an elective pairing. We tried the 2021 RINGS Riesling from Pfalz, and a glass of Dassai 45 sake, decanted right into a small ceramic jug. Every drink chosen to respect the meals’s character.
PurOsushi first opened in 2007. The restaurant has advanced over time, and now finds its dwelling inside Puente Romano Marbella, the place it stands confidently among the many resort’s Asian eating choices, together with Thai Gallery and Nobu Marbella.
PurOsushi is distinct, each for the technical ability behind every dish, and the intimacy of the setting. There is no such thing as a mounted menu. That is omakase, guided by the day’s seafood and the cooks’ judgement.
There are two menus to select from. We opted for the Omakase Menu: 18 programs, beginning usually with a bento, adopted by nigiri, sashimi, makis, a robata course, and dessert. It’s also possible to take pleasure in a extra elaborate Kiwami Menu, which begins with toro tartare and caviar and consists of the best day by day cuts.
It’s, doubtless, probably the most completed omakase expertise in Marbella, with a deal with the distinctive high quality of the produce, and a slowly paced eating expertise.
Supply hyperlink
