“OCTAVO”, THE NEW SEASON OF 2025 AT QUIQUE DACOSTA RESTAURANT
We are in luck!
We present OCTAVO, the new season of 2025 at Quique Dacosta Restaurant. But OCTAVO is much more, it is a new look at cooking as a unique artistic expression that transcends beyond the gastronomic sector itself and it is also the current moment that Quique Dacosta is going through, recognized worldwide for his artistic contribution to gastronomy.
“I am here to communicate from my closest and most natural language, which is cooking. I have not reached this point to claim that cooking is an art, or I have. Gastronomy is the framework where cuisine is consolidated as one of the fine arts in this century.” Quique Dacosta.
The new gastronomic proposal of the three Michelin stars in Denia, one of the best and most avant-garde restaurants in the world, delves into the concept of cuisine as a language with its own identity, as a multisensory discipline to which are added emotional connotations that make the experience of sitting at the table becomes an active participation in the work that is exposed and represented.
There are arts in which the receiver uses only one sense, and only through it can they move us, such as music or painting, with cinema we use two senses and with cooking we use all five senses.
The new menu offers a gastronomic story that has inspired artists of the seven arts, such as the guitarist Vicente Amigo, the writer Rosa Montero, the choreographer Melania Olcina, the architect Ramón Esteve, the photographer Paula Anta, the painter Guillermo Fornes or the philosopher Javier Gomá among others, awakening deep feelings and sensations when tasting them.
In addition, music through Alejandro Sanz or James Rhodes, cinema in the words of Isabel Coixet, sculpture represented by Manolo Valdés, or painting through the inspiration of Paula Bonet, also embrace the work of Quique Dacosta, and have wanted to be present in this new season giving us their vision of art.
COPYRIGHT IN THE KITCHEN
Leo Burnett together with Piel Creative Studio and Attic Films, have been inspired by the kitchen of Quique Dacosta to carry out a historic campaign. Through the 7 arts they have reinterpreted a menu composed of iconic dishes of the chef and have registered them as 7 works created by artists from each of the different artistic disciplines, with the aim of, for the first time in history, protecting the copyright of a chef.
“I firmly believe in the transversality of the arts, they have always inspired me, and that other artists look with such respect and admiration to our work is a pride and at the same time a responsibility,” says Dacosta about this milestone for the history of gastronomy.
More information at www.eloctavo.art
