The Cocina Hermanos Torres restaurant in Barcelona received the third Michelin star in the Spain Portugal 2023 edition. The other Spanish restaurant to receive an award was the Atrio restaurant from Cáceres in the middle of the awards ceremony on Tuesday, November 22 in the city of Toledo.
With these two restaurants there are now 13 Spanish tri-starred restaurants number that had not increased since 2019.
Thus, Cocina Hermanos Torres and Atrio are the two Spanish establishments with three Michelin stars.
Meanwhile, El Rincón de Juan Carlos, Deesa and Pepe Vieira were upgraded to two stars and 34 restaurants, five of them located in Portugal, achieved their first distinction.
Torres Brothers’ kitchen in Barcelona, third Michelin star
The twins Sergio and Javier Torres, managers of a dream, made the Michelin inspectors dream with every bite in the middle of a magical space.
His restaurant Cocina Hermanos Torres, located in an industrial warehouse in Barcelona (Carrer del Taquígraf Serra, 20), managed to create an attractive link between the dining room, the kitchen and the diners.
The dishes are prepared with seasonal ingredients, carefully served with taste and beauty on long central tables or at the customers’ tables. There are no secrets.
“It’s a kitchen with tables” where the chefs practice a gastronomy of memory, the one taught to them by their grandmother.
The new awardees are very happy for the recognition, as well as for the recognition received by their colleagues. They claim that this continues to demonstrate that “Spanish cuisine is the greatest in Europe”.
The fantastic twins in the kitchen
Javier and Sergio Torres (Barcelona, 1970), the most recognized and mediatic twins of the culinary world in Barcelona, were the favorites to obtain one more Michelin star. And the forecasts did not fail in this 2023 edition.
These two creative and jovial brothers, who from the age of eight learned from their grandmother Catalina the art of cooking that today has taken them to stardom.
About Atrio Restaurant
Veteran chef Toño Pérez and his culinary adventure partner José Polo created a true work of gastronomic art at Atrio. It is located in the middle of an exquisite restaurant-hotel type architecture in the city of Cáceres.
A third star is something of great happiness and great responsibility, say the award winners. They currently have 80 employees, some of them with considerable seniority.
About Atrio and its cuisine, Michelin said:
“Elegant and delicate proposal changing the DNA of the local gastronomic tradition, where the protagonist is the Iberian pig. It captivates the palate with technical excellence, passion and sincerity”.
Two great representatives to the world of Spanish cuisine are now part of the privileged group of restaurants in the world that deservedly obtained their third Michelin.
