Pink salt diamonds, the smallest and most exclusive restaurant in Madrid by Thai Garden creator

Hace un par de meses nacía Thai Emotion, un proyecto centrado en el servicio a domicilio de cocina thai impulsado por Emilio Carcur. Histórico del panorama gastronómico madrileño por haber traído a nuestro país la alta cocina tailandesa en el mítico Thai Garden, ahora abre bajo las cocinas de Thai Emotion Diamantes de Sal Rosa, un espacio privado súper exclusivo con una sola mesa para cuatro comensales (hasta ocho cuando las medidas sanitarias lo permitan).Diamantes de Sal Rosa, el restaurante más pequeño y exclusivo de Madrid del creador de Thai Garden Diamantes de Sal Rosa, el restaurante más pequeño y exclusivo de Madrid del creador de Thai Garden

At the end of a staircase of refined wood, a space with dim light of about 30 square meters, whose ground is a carpet of 1,000 kilos of pink salt of the Himalayas.The roof of the premises also hangs salt, which reflect the light and generate a peaceful and naturally purified atmosphere thanks to the emission of negative ions of such amount of salts.Brick walls seen, thai wooden ornaments, orchids (of course), and in the center, a table dressed in elegance and equally decorated with flowers and salt.Currently, for four diners, which will be six when the sanitary measures allow it, or at most, eight.No more because the idea is to guarantee exclusivity, maximum privacy and a unique experience adapted to customer preferences.

This is pink salt diamonds, the smallest restaurant in Madrid specialized in Thai cuisine, which is hidden under the facilities of Thai Emotion, on Eguilaz StreetThis double concept that is born under the inspiration and direction of Emilio Carcur seems most successful: on the one hand, the business base, is the delivery or tax away of Asian cuisine, a format with tested demand that the pandemic has finished promoting;And, on the other, a very experiential restaurant, conceived not to be seen, but for the opposite and that, despite this and its very limited capacity, will probably accumulate waiting lists and become a place to be.Who would not want to enjoy an open restaurant just for you?

As in the house living room

An iPad on the table allows you to control the temperature, lighting and space music.A Thai -style bell, call the waiters (Thai, invisible, ceremonial, silent), which will only come to that sound.Perfect both for a romantic dinner and for a discreet business food, here the goal is not to disturb the client and adapt to the limit of the possible concerns.From changing menu dishes, in a fixed and closed principle, to lengthening the desktop without more limit than the schedules imposed by the curfew and without anyone from the staff interrupts the "party".The objective, we said, is that the client enjoys the privacy he would have in the living room of his house, but with a luxury service.

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And, in addition, for a reasonable price that, yes, must be paid for a minimum of four people even if there are less diners (the alternative in this case is to be able to ask to carry the menus not consumed on the day of the reserve or otherday).The menu costs 52 euros per person (without drinks) and includes 13 passes.

To begin with, two snacks (Nua Sawa, fine strips of dry and fried meat with aromatic herbs and Thaitom Kha Kai, traditional chicken soup with coconut milk, galanga, Kaffir and citrons lime leaves); Five entrants (Hoi Farang: Write wrapped with oyster sauce and soybean on mushroom stuffed with shrimp meat; Pla Pan Rak: marinated salmon skewer in soy sauce, kaffir lime leaves and black sesame grains; Golden Bag: Fried wheat pasta cakes stuffed with chicken meat, Chinese mushrooms, vegetables and aromatic herbs; Thai. Kung Pang Sarong: prawns filled with a preparation of prawn meat and spices, and the KAI: , seasoned with roasted and ground rice, lime juice, shalots, coriander and red chillies); Three main dishes accompanied by Thai -style rice (Pla Muan Siam: Hake fillets with vegetables, aromatic herbs and celery; kai kratiam: fine chicken fillets in fried tempura with oyster sauce and; paneg kai sai roti: chicken to the red curry Paneng style), and three prostres (mature fresh mango with glutinous rice and temperate coconut milk, pumpkin stuffed with coconut custard cream and chocolate Belge fondant in mousse with grated coconut and light whiskey aroma of Meekong).

An antecedent in memory

For Madrid children of Baby Boom there is a restaurant that will always be in its collective memory and that is part of the gastronomic history of the capital.Some celebrated their first appointment there -he arrived to be tagged as the most romantic restaurant in Spain;Others discovered at their tables what was the food Thai and hallucinated with their spicy dishes;The most were photographed among their orchids and waterfalls and learned how Thai greeted themselves, and among all they made Thai Garden, who opened its doors in 1995 in a Jorge Juan that was not yet what is today, a myth.

Behind that eccentricity, Emilio Carcur, a bon vivant of Spanish mother and Palestinian father, polyglota, elegant, flirtatious and with more lives than a cat: "It was the first Thai kitchen restaurant in Spain and pink salt diamonds is its evolution as its evolution as its evolution as its evolution asIt will be the restaurant with the most capacity that we will open soon on Añasro Street, "he anticipates."The beauty, refinement and respect that are an indissoluble part of the Thai culture, guides all my businesses," he adds as a declaration of intentions.

With the current palates much more accustomed to Asian flavors, the new carcur journey part of Thai Garden's experience and maintains an offer based on excellence that pampers the details both in salt diamonds and in the home shipping business."Asian luxury at home," he says about Thay Emotion's delivery, which arrives in a gift box, with small orchid including and information on the Thai gastronomy.The flavors are up to the image.Prepared by Thai chefs, they seek authenticity although the client can modulate the degree of spicy if he does not dare with the proposal of the original recipe book Thai.As they are prepared, it is advisable to make orders in advance, even a day before they can prepare with the care they require.

What to ask for?There is a menu for 42 euros/person that includes the most representative dishes of Thai kitchen.Or organize its own assortment in which you can not miss classides such as Pansib (vegetable empanadillas with turmeric and aromatic herbs, 2.2 euros the unit), the Pak Tod (vegetables battered in tempura, 14 euros) the dumplings or dim-Sum adapted to Thai taste, such as rice flour stuffed with pork marinated in red sauce (from 2.4 euros unit), rice and pad thai (recommended that of prawns and vegetables, with soybeans, peanuts and peanuts, peanuts andChile Red dry, 18 euros), salads and, of course, the curries that recall those nights in Thai Garden."Our difference is in the detail of what we serve and how we serve it. Either in the reserved or with the home service, we want the client to feel that he has traveled to Thailand and dreams," she concludes.

Address: Street Eguilaz 13 Luchana corner 12. Telephones: 91 447 29 76/649 047 839. Closed Monday and Tuesday at noon.Average tile: 50 euros.