Chef Alberto Chicote has taken the volcano from La Palma to Madrid, and he has done it with a charitable gesture that will bring the eruption of the palm tree closer to his clients in an original and elegant way. The Omeraki restaurant has created unique pieces with volcanic stones collected from the eruption, which are now a reality.
“This day another beautiful story is coming for the Omeraki Restaurant,” announced the chef and face of ‘Nightmare in the kitchen’. «During the almost three months in which we all were aware of the evolution of the Cumbre Vieja volcano in La Palma, at home we thought about how to transform the disaster into virtue and how to take advantage of all those tons of volcanic lava that devastated the populations of the palm trees”.
That’s how he told it, and that’s how the idea became art.
“After much searching and much pulling of strings, we managed to bring to Madrid a few volcanic stones that, after being treated, carved and polished, are going to be our ‘cutlery rest’ pieces in Omeraki.” In this way, the unnamed volcano will be part of this gastronomic corner.
“We know that with this, which is only a small amount, we achieve almost nothing, but we wanted it to be a sample, a flash, that there is a material that can be used, that it can have another life and that it can be used for multiple uses. », Chicote has expressed.
In this way, the chef and his team, he said, “we wanted to send a message of support both to palmeros and to those who visit us” in Omeraki, which will have some of the youngest stones on the planet in its kitchenware.
“We remind you that we wish you the best and that a small piece of La Palma lives on our tables,” he said on his social networks.
“Every time we place cutlery on one of the pieces, we will be doing it on one of those stones that shook us not even a year ago”, and this material that “came from the heart of the earth” will now “accompany us in our services ».
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