Mendoza Restaurants Nadia OF, Chacras of Coria (Luján), was honored as the best of 2010 by the National Academy of Gastronomy. The chef and owner, Nadia Haron (40), is also in charge of the restaurant in O. Fournier Urban, of the eponymous winery in the Uco Valley.
Nadia, born and raised in San Sebastián Burgos (both in Spain), has a degree in pharmacy from the Complutense University of Madrid and is self-taught in the areas of the kitchen that led her to win the premio.Desde 8 or 9 years remember that would give me cookbooks for birthdays. Then I went to college and studied pharmacy family tradition. Dedication to the kitchen came just six years ago, when we got to Mendoza and asked me to take charge of the restaurant of the winery. After open Nadia OF, said Haron, wife of José Manuel Ortega Fournier.Lo I studied has a lot to do with cooking. Food science is not just a health principle also analyzed the chemical processes that suffer food in various stages of cooking, agregó.El award will be presented tomorrow at the Hyatt-hotel Melia Recoleta in Buenos Aires, before more than 100 guests Academy Gastronomía.El Restaurants Nadia has a different meal; change the food every Thursday and uses local products. A meal that, in the opinion of the jury, generates surprise in the flavors and presentation ago, said Ignacio Gutierrez Zaldivar, president academia.El premioNadia OF was chosen by a jury of 35 people, a process in which each member proposed featured restaurants across the country. Is the fourth Academy awards and the first to win the reconocimiento.El Mendoza Haron was first among 300 locals who were in the race. Furthermore, Chandon / Terrace was chosen as the best winery and Martin Baquero as the best chef of 2011.The Restaurants recycled an old house of adobe, and has a staff of waiters and staff truly exceptional. All those things also are rewarded: the staging and service. Nadia uses a very original dishes and the Restaurant offers the possibility to everyone to wear their own wine, a custom which should use all the restaurants in the country, said Gutiérrez Zaldívar.La owner told Diario UNO: I’m pretty surprised, very happy. And I’m still not believe it. I’m surprised, because I have just six years doing this that I love, but I never thought that I could grant a kitchen así.La mention was something that came hand in hand with Mendoza when we arrived six years ago, recordó.El restauranteNadia OF was founded in February 2010, while Urban, in O. Fournier, born in 2006, both follow the same culinary line, but Urban open to the public every day at noon for lunch service and Nadia OF, every night in an old house cuyana nineteenth century located in the heart chakras of both restaurants Coria.En-only tasting menu is offered in six steps, with creations that incorporate elegance, innovation and choice. Each menu is inspired by local and seasonal ingredients. First look for the ingredients and then each weapon menu items. The menu changes every Thursday, which results in a constant weekly search of ingredients and ways of preparation. Never agree on the same week the dishes in both restaurants, which is a double challenge for kitchen equipment and sala.El theme-tasting menu shows a week is a very hard work, exercise leads to harmonize all dishes each other, recognized the most prized creations Harón.Entre found the corn in textures, where the only ingredient used is fresh corn, combining five different textures; oxtail ravioli with its reduction of Malbec, with pickled vegetables causes Lima, adept ripe tomato gazpacho, goat to orange with crispy sweet potato sorbet tower torrontés and philo dough with cream caramel and candy nest Haron premiadaNadia .Reconocida and has been invited to cook in Florence (Italy), Vancouver (Canada), Santiago and Talca (Chile) and Miami (USA). He was recently a guest chef in the culinary event organized by the owner of the restaurant Columbia in Ybor City-Tampa, United Unidos.Nadia has received several awards, among them the Gold Medal Guide by Bodegas de Argentina Best Of Competition Great Capitals Vino.Adicionalmente, the Restaurant at O. Fournier Urban was elected the first on the list of the best wineries are located in worldwide. Source: Journal One
