Trocadero Casa de Botes: the new luxury restaurant that enchants in Malaga
Félix Gancedo (vintage of 1940) goes down, very slowly, the stairs. Observe, with emotion, his second home, which is still a house: Casa de Botes. Gancedo, one of the best European sailors in history, was an Olympian in Mexico and Munich and president of the Real Club Mediterráneo, the oldest in Spain (1873).. The sailing champion is accompanied by one of his brothers, his wife and children and looks at the horizon of the splendid Bay of Malaga.
It is the inauguration of the Trocadero Casa de Botes de Málaga, the first incursion of the group led by Dionisio Hernández-Gil in the Andalusian city, and which is located at the end of Pier One. After an investment of six million euros after a public tender called by the Port Authority — with two and a half years of work —, and a staff that rises to 110 people at the opening, the new restaurant includes a new luxury offer and until now unprecedented in Malaga.
The place has three floors with different environments. The Mediterranean kitchen is located on the ground floor. Floor one is the space for Asian flavors and the top floor for drinks. It has capacity for 400 seated diners for lunch and dinner. “We wanted to be here. It was the only important site we were missing on the Costa del Sol,” Hernández-Gil told El Confidencial.. “Málaga is already a very emblematic place and today it is at the forefront of everything. Also, it's not seasonal at all”.
The group already has four locations in Marbella: Trocadero Playa, Trocadero Arena, Trocadero Petit Playa, Trocadero Zanzibar, Sotogrande, Estepona, Benalmádena and the one that has just opened in Tarifa join the list of other restaurants. For the month of September they will open a space in the old Mayte Commodore, in the Plaza de la República Argentina in Madrid. Today, it is the most important restaurant group on the Costa del Sol, employing more than 800 people.
The area where the Trocadero Casa de Botes is located is becoming a gastronomic pole after the inauguration, this summer, of La Pérgola de Mediterráneo. It is the restaurant of the Real Club Mediterráneo located opposite the Trocadero and run by Tercer Acto, a company owned by the actor and businessman from Malaga Antonio Banderas.
Hernández-Gil highlighted the “affection” and “respect” in the remodeling of the building, which dates from 1946, and which has been carried out by the architecture studio Lucas y Hernández-Gil of Madrid. “We have tried to respect the space”, added the owner of Trocadero. The property has a marked marine character and colonial style, “where the sobriety of the wood, the elegance of the design, the color of the fabrics and the warmth of the lighting”, as reported by the group. The main entrance contains a tribute to Gancedo with some of his trophies and various marine motifs that recall the origin of the Club.
Javier Frutos, president of Mahos (Association of Hoteliers of Málaga), recalled that Trocadero is already a “very recognized” brand throughout the province. “In our sector we are looking for quality and with this restaurant we go up a step in the gastronomic Malaga. The location is enviable. You can't be in a better place,” added Frutos, while watching Royal Caribbean's Anthem of the Seas docked at the cruise terminal.
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Jacobo Florido, Councilor for Tourism of the Malaga City Council, appreciated the importance of this investment and admitted that the city does not have enough physical 'premium' restaurant spaces. “This restaurant has a great category. Malaga is already reaching a medium-high level of tourist offer”, Florido remarked to this newspaper.
This area of the city, perhaps the most beautiful, bathed by the Mediterranean, also premiered this Tuesday, in addition to a gastronomic offer, a recognition of the La Malagueta lighthouse. It is female and is called La Farola: the Ministry of Culture has declared it an Asset of Cultural Interest. As evening fell, the loudspeakers of the Trocadero Boathouse played Sting singing Englishman in New York.