Quique Dacosta Restaurant

At Quique Dacosta Restaurant in Dénia, cooking goes beyond the purely culinary to become an artistic experience which, as the chef puts it, allows him to communicate and to “cook beauty”.

In this three-Michelin-star restaurant, one of the most avant-garde in the world, everything is a first time and a longing… Each season is a creative statement that changes almost completely from year to year, constantly pushing the boundaries of flavour.

Through the Octavo tasting menu —a name that boldly places it alongside the formally established fine arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, music, dance, literature and cinema— we speak of an ephemeral, imaginative art that naturally disappears in the mouth, yet over its many courses (with a choice of pairings) manages to stay in the memory forever.

“Cooking is a multisensory discipline, and I have not come this far to claim that cooking is an art… or maybe I have.”