Set overlooking a lake in Marbella’s prestigious golf group of Elviria Hills, Restaurante El Lago is commencing a brand new chapter in its illustrious story. With new house owners and Chef Milos main the kitchen, the restaurant has unveiled new lunch and dinner menus. The restaurant has additionally launched a brand new gastronomic tasting menu with a choice of dishes created by Chef Milos, who continues to supply a delicacies based mostly on seasonal and zero-kilometre produce.
Lately The Luxurious Editor headed to west Marbella to expertise the brand new ‘Concord’ / ‘Armonia’ tasting menu at El Lago Marbella, a effective eating restaurant with a powerful wine record and an impressive terrace overlooking the lake and golf course.
Our night was the chance to grasp the brand new culinary narrative being crafted by Chef Milos Zdravkovic and his workforce together with scrumptious wine pairings by sommelier Felipe.
The vibe is renewed, and relaxed, and the workforce is brimming with optimism. This restaurant has an award-winning previous, however nothing can stand nonetheless. The brand new house owners and Chef Milos wish to evolve right into a extra relaxed fine-dining restaurant. A spot for {couples} and households (and occasions) that places native delicacies on the coronary heart of every thing, but with out the overt give attention to formality.
Armonia – tasting menu
The delicacies is a delight, with the robust give attention to native produce changing into clear as quickly because the pre-starters seem, together with a crispy cone of flavoursome goat tartar & honey, in addition to smoked tuna stomach wrapped round fragrant salad leaves from a farm in Coín.
Chef Milos dials up the creativity with beautiful dishes just like the cured bonito tuna with nori, (sitting on a dish of conventional Malaga ajo blanco and topped with katsuobushi flakes of fermented dried tuna), whereas protecting issues grounded and unpretentious with easy pleasures of roasted leek baked with a Stilton bechamel sauce.
The primary dishes of roasted Malaga goat with payoyo cheese sauce and the native ‘salmonete’ pink mullet are elevated by their precision preparation and artistic garnishes just like the Japanese cucumber salad.
The desert of honey and pink pepper panna cotta with pink fruit coulis, is elegant and light-weight, permitting for additional indulgence together with summery petits just like the mojito infused melon.
The a la carte menu begins with oysters and champagne, and completely different starters reminiscent of pink prawn carpaccio with garlic and caviar; white garlic with cured tuna, nori, seasonal fruits and katsuoboushi; or roasted carrots from the restaurant’s natural farmers, olive tabbouleh and goat yoghurt with cumin sauce. To proceed, essential programs embrace matured beef tataki with marrow sauce and pepper emulsion, roast shoulder of child from Malaga with payoyo cheese sauce and seasonal greens, grilled Iberian feather with home made pickles and Pedro Ximénez sauce, panko pink mullet with Japanese cucumber salad “sunomono” and coral sauce, or sea bass in velouté sauce with champagne and smoked roe. Among the many desserts: the supreme chocolate tart with salted caramel and occasional ice cream, the semifreddo of popcorn, corn crumble and spicy notes or the rum pineapple with ardour fruit cream and coconut ice cream.
Award-winning
Presently, El Lago is beneficial by the celebrated Michelin Information, holds two Repsol Suns and is ranked within the High 10 by the Macarfi Information. The historical past of El Lago started in 2000 and has been consistently evolving over time. What began out as a restaurant within the Membership Home of Greenlife Golf has develop into a benchmark for haute delicacies in Malaga and Andalusia.
Chef Milos Zdravkovic
Chef Milos Zdravkovic was born in Serbia and skilled on the Greater College of Tourism and Lodge Administration on the College of Belgrade. As soon as in Marbella, his skilled expertise within the kitchen started as head chef in a number of eating places of the Dani García Group. In 2020 he joined the kitchen workforce at El Lago and is at the moment the manager chef and liable for the brand new gastronomic providing. His aim is to keep up the philosophy of the restaurant, dedicated to small producers within the space and utilizing the best zero-kilometre produce.
Info
Restaurante El Lago is open for lunch on Tuesdays and for lunch & dinner on Wednesdays by means of to Sunday. The tasting menu is 125 euros, and for the wine pairing it’s 55 euros additional.
