He climbed that Michelin mountain and came back down, but now he is back with a few distinctions. Dani García is back at Gastronomika from his two-star Michelin watch tower, the Smoked Room restaurant he opened in 2021 for a triumphant return to haute cuisine, although he does not have to be there every single day. “I'm back, but on my own terms”, he said at the last French guide awards.

The chef runs a business group which provides jobs for 600 people and turned over 22 million in 2019, he feels free to exercise his businessman facet, and so he has no wish to compromise his status by managing a restaurant on a daily basis. He will not be working there every day, but presumably he will be heavily involved with his latest outlet, Smoked Room, a small locale for 14 people, where the emphasis is on fire and smoke. A return to his origins for a chef who masters all the fields of gastronomy, and management too.