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Whip is popularly known for his television programs, but it was one of the pioneers in creating a kitchen mix between Spain and Japan. It is Yakitoro line, the facility just opened in downtown Madrid, where españoliza the Japanese tavern.

After 30 years of business and its recognized work in restaurants and Pan Node Luxury -he left in 2012 to focus on “Nightmare in the Kitchen” and “Top Chef” – is the first time you open a separate room intended as a proposal “casual and fun” which is cooked to customers and a ” unique identity. “

” Not a restaurant, a tavern inspired by Japanese taverns and adapted to the XXI century. has an average ticket of between 25 and 30 euros, very affordable for everyone because I did not want to put up something exclusive, but for all audiences, “ explains in an interview with Efe.

So is not haute cuisine with which he excelled in his previous works, although it remains “Alberto Chicote one hundred percent.” “I’ve always dreamed of that identity that one gives to his work is sufficient to define it and I think there is a certain mark, a certain way of doing things that are defined with my name,” he says.

In Yakitoro word that mixes Japanese “yakitori” (skewers) and Españolísimo bull, the menu includes diced eggplant tempura with miso and red paprika, donut cod mayonnaise yuzu and chili, pork dumplings coated with honey rosemary and tomatoes with pickled ginger, among other proposals.

“Son pinchitos containing the mixture between Spain and Japan, with many recognizable flavors and close in a format both a scoundrel” he says. To accompany a wide selection of bottled beers in “large format”, since the magnum pint pints and a short letter and wines “affordable, as none exceeds 20 euros”.

Madrid Fusion Award for Best Chef of the Year in 2005 in Yakitoro cook “with guts and heart”, provided that their filming permit. He is now filming the second season of “Top Chef”, which does not reveal anything, and soon will go to refloat hotels and restaurants and blocks.

knows his hit TV will “projection” to his “japohispana” but also that many will scrutinize very closely looking for defects that he brings out in restaurants that require your help. tavern “I’ve been in the job 30 years and I have not stopped feeling the pressure of ever demanding customer,” says about it.

It will be difficult to catch a Whip quit. It is surrounded by a team with which he had worked, has been careful to detail the local and the furniture has been specifically designed to Yakitoro “because they had”. As the tables with a pool of ice in the center to keep the beers cold.

“A site where you eat very well and space is tremendously fun and festive, forgetting formalities, in an environment very relaxed, not matter where you laugh out loud “details.

Behind it, three decades of work with who got his pioneering fusion between the Spanish and Japanese cuisines will happen” than at first seemed a fad to a trend “with imitated not only in Spain but out dishes.

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tuna tataki ajoblanco established in 1998 and has then found in many letters, the “Spanish sushi” with tuna Bilbao, anchovies in vinegar or red peppers, stuffed wanton of pil-pil or tempura tortilla chips.

“For me We are proud he called freaks Internet was not as developed, documentation was practically nil, and I bought books of Japanese cuisine in London because here there was..; was my trial and error method. Buy products without knowing what they were because the labels were in Chinese or Japanese. From this ignorance arose things never done before, “he recalls.

None of those dishes that are marked tendency” for now “in Yakitoro.” This is not a continuity here and the race starts from scratch . When the tavern has a strong identity, distinct from the rest, is able to recover any “he argues.

A new path that begins with” the phone ringing nonstop for reservations ” since Friday poster hung open, ensure Efe from the restaurant, and the new challenges that will arise.

“There are many more ideas, things I would face in future. I am 44 and I will not die until the 155, so I left to make war “promises Whip.