b-served Gastronomy
Tierras de Mar
Room Chef, IKI BARCELONA
Room Chef is a recently inaugurated gastronomic experience accommodated within one of Barcelona’s most spectacular restaurants IKI BARCELONA located in the Eixample neighbourhood on C. Aribau, 174 (between Paris and Còrsega). The room is situated at the rear of this spectacular mise-en-scène inspired by Japanese culinary traditions which can be reserved for groups or individual bookings. Accommodating up to ten diners seated around a built-in an exclusive design providing the scenario for gastronomic theatre. The polished steel hot plate built into a round table can accommodate up to ten diners with the chef as the main protagonist of this culinary happening.
Barcelona has always been a city renowned for its capacity to absorb and reinterpret foreign cultures, the Mediterranean port city has taken on board artistic, economic and political influences since Roman times. This process if anything is even more marked in the contemporary city, where native Barcelona residents and others choosing to make the city their home have adapted outside influences to local ways. This is no where more evident than in Catalan cuisine, IKI BARCELONA is a case in point, it could be defined as a Catalan restaurant with a Japanese accent with a highly unique offering: the art of the hot-plate. In its search for excellence head chef Javier Ahedo came up with and elaborated an apparently highly simple cuisine, but nonetheless one of extraordinary and exquisite quality. IKI BARCELONA is the brainchild of two daring Catalan designers Marta Romañá and Santi Sardà, who have a trajectory of successful restaurants behind them; Oli en un Llum, Sala B de Luz de Gas and the renowned Universal. They have put together a highly team of professionals including; Carlos Biasón (Can Solé, La Venta) who manages the restaurant; Javier Ahedo (Racó d’en Cesc, Ryugin Restaurant, Mugaritz - Tokyo) who oversees the kitchen; Jordi Alcaraz (Quemo - Hong Kong), as head chef; and Jakir Hussain (Miu, Zuca) sushi chef.
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Room Chef can accommodate up to 10 diners
Now IKI presents its latest culinary initiative within Room Chef, Tierras de Mar, a set-menu composed of eight courses and a dessert, accompanied with cava, white wine and two reds, at a price of 55 Euros all inclusive. A menu with delicacies like lotus root chips with cold cream tofu and seaweed; Edamame steamed mashed Iberian and paprika; the seared white asparagus, "muddy" in sesame and sishio; Golden vapor sake and lemon; Sirloin of the sea (tuna belly) grilled, roasted and chopped daikon juice; or smoked duck fillet with citrus and wild asparagus.
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Room Cehf is a performance space designed to accommodate a cooking display where the main actors are the excellent ingredients forming the Tierras de Mar gastronomic offer
An approach that is true to the meaning of the restaurant’s name, the word Iki dates from the Edo epoch during the 18th C and means elegant but simple, discreet but practical, a way of being noble, honest and brave, a way of being based on the values of the old Samurai warriors.
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View of the Suchi table near the entrance of IKI Barcelona
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Steamed soy beans with cruched perrers and Iberic
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Red prawns served in salt crust
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White asparagus served in sesame and sisho sauce
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Mini-hamburger with steamed bread and lotus root chips
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Scallop mini-tartare served with lime and mango
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Iki Barcelona salmon and tuna sashimi
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Wild strawberries and ice-cream
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Other options include a midday set-lunch menu (15 Euros) and the Menú IKI Experience which combines courses served at the sushi bar and the Room Chef (60 Euros, drinks included).
- Room Chef, IKI BARCELONA
- C/ Aribau, 174
- 08036 Barcelona
- telf. 93 676 3407
- www.ikibarcelona.com
- closed Sundays