La Tasquita de enfrente: La sencilla desnudez (Ed. Bilingüe Español-Ingles)

Varios Autores, "La Tasquita de enfrente: La sencilla desnudez (Ed. Bilingüe Español-Ingles)"; Juanjo López took the lead of La Tasquita de Enfrente (Madrid) 20 years ago. Since that moment, the chef has earned the greatest respect thanks to his honesty, essence and a timelessness luxury understood through his particular point of view. Praised as a custodian of flavour by the best chefs and the most demanding gourmets, he reveals, in first person and with a gastronomic literary voice, the ins and outs of a unique restaurant and the product it offers. One day, Juanjo López decided to stop the career that made him manage an important insurance company and dedicated himself, in body and soul, to the hospitality industry. He ‘hung up his tie’, replaced the blazer by the chef’s jacket and started to run La Tasquita de Enfrente, the establishment that his father, Serafín López Gaona, opened in Calle de La Ballesta, in Madrid. Two decades later, this restaurant is unique in Spain as a reference for the best chefs and the most demanding gourmets. All of them use to sit at the tables for tasting something so simple and so complicated as it is the best produce treated with the highest respect. ‘When it is in safe hands, a quality produce can become something memorable’, as José Carlos Capel, culinary critic in El País verifies. ‘It is not easy to go out from a restaurant without any objection. But here you can’, Carlos Maribona, responsible of the gastronomic section in ABC for more than 25 years, asseverates.