The best decorated restaurant in Europe opens a branch in Madrid. Note the Blue Brasserie It arrives in the Salamanca neighborhood with the desire to become a new gastronomic “place” in the capital and is promoted by its owner, a very experienced former French footballer. … Incredible story behind.
Zzoo Blonis He is now CEO of the Casanis Group, owner of this and several fashion stores in Marbella and employs 500 staff, but not long ago he had to start over in Spain. “I arrived on the Costa del Sol in 2013 with my family and started cleaning glasses,” he recalls.
Businessman Now (Paris, 1980) starred 15 years ago in a famous film Conflict with QatarWhich contracted him with the army team, but then stopped paying him and kept him within its borders for a few years when the player filed a lawsuit against him.
Finally, international pressure led to the wealthy Gulf nation’s surrender, but for Belounis to get what he was owed, he had to start from the bottom in his new land. Marbella. After regaining his financial solvency, he decided to apply his experience in the field of hospitality to… Create a restaurant With the cuisine, outstanding service, image and beautiful atmosphere everyone wants to go.
This is the way I was born Blue Note in 2022Which became a success, also supported by a local design award The best decor in Europe– It won just one year later in the “Restaurant & Bar Design Awards”. He had the pleasure of opening it in Doha, and now he brings it to Madrid, always with the help of his partner W Chef Fabian Kangas.
It seats more than a hundred people, and is decorated in the style of the brand’s image. Marble, wood, gold, terracotta and furniture with organic shapesin a modern and sophisticated style but with neutral colors and without overload.
Your message (medium ticket, 70 euros) focuses on Mediterranean cuisine with a French basewith dishes such as cauliflower or blue crab salad, tuna sashimi, miso meunière sole, oysters, caviar, lobster au gratin, red shrimp tartare, truffle pizza or tuna sashimi, among others.
In addition to being a great winery, Nota Blu is very committed to this cocktail (At the entrance there is a distinctive circular bar) by bartender Colo Linari.
Nothing in Nota Blu is left to chance. Bellonis, for example, says it was Six months to prepare the music Which is playing in the background. “We don’t play any songs,” he says. His work is also fueled by the inspiration that he and Kangas derived from their constant travels around the world. “In the last event, for example, in ten days we were in 33 restaurants in Miami and New York,” he says.
And with this cosmopolitan spirit, which can already be seen among the diners occupying his new tables, the former footballer, friend of many colleagues and celebrities such as Eva LongoriaHe wanted his “new brasserie” to be “the coolest restaurant, but at the same time high-end food and service,” says he, who was at a special event at the beginning of the month that served as an opening party.
Note the Blue Brasserie. C/ Claudio Coelho, 10. Madrid. Open every day noon and evening except Sunday dinner.