A new cuisine concept has just landed on Marbella’s gastronomic scene. Zengo Restaurant, by international chef Richard Sandova, has opened its doors in the Hard Rock Hotel Marbella, offering a distinctive fusion between Asian and Latin cuisine, with the bold flavours paired with a unique cocktail bar. Zengo Marbella restaurant is the first in Spain and the third Zengo in the Richard Sandoval hospitality group founded by the Chef who already has 60 other restaurants in the world.
Zengo, which means ‘to give and receive’ in Japanese, is an ingenious mix of Latin-Asian styles and flavours. It is owned by chef Richard Sandoval, who has been awarded the Bon Appétit Restaurateur of the Year Award, the James Beard Outstanding Restaurateur Award and Mexico’s Toque de Oro.
Zengo Marbella restaurant arrives on the coast at the Hard Rock Hotel Marbella. In this privileged site, Zengo has a capacity for 90 diners inside and a further 100 on its large outdoor terrace. The team of 25 staff has been specially formed by Chef Sandoval and his multidisciplinary team from the Richard Sandoval Hospitality group.
Zengo: a unique and modern culinary style
Chef Richard Sandoval has created a culinary style with a strong personality based on combining the best of Latin cuisine with Japanese, Chinese, Indian, Thai, Indonesian, Singaporean, Vietnamese and Korean cuisines. Zengo’s innovative menu ranges from Nikkei-inspired sushi and sashimi to curries, grilled entrees and wok dishes, all of them with Latin influences. The ingredients are sourced from the best zero-kilometre producers on the Costa del Sol.
Highlights include a wide selection of makis such as the lobster maki, with lobster, avocado, mango and ‘macho’ sauce, the AngryZengo, with spicy tuna, avocado, lemon and yuzukosho mayonnaise and the Gambas Yuzu maki, with prawn tempura, quinoa, spring onion and chipotle yuzu. Also worth mentioning are the NasiGoreng wok, with fried rice, chicken saté, pickled vegetables and fried egg; and the Beef wok – UdonNoodle, with bokchoy, spring onion and furikake.
These dishes, and the rest of Zengo’s complete culinary offering, are complemented by the drinks menu which includes six signature cocktails (innovative hand-crafted cocktails), as well as Latin and Spanish wines, Japanese sakes and the best references of tequilas and mezcals.
Information
Chef Richard Sandoval is a pioneer in promoting Latin cuisine worldwide. He has more than 60 restaurants around the world, as his culinary concepts can be found in cities such as New York, Dubai, Mexico City, Tokyo and Doha.
His career as a chef, restaurateur and entrepreneur also includes work as a US television personality, cookbook author, brand ambassador and philanthropist. He is internationally acclaimed for his innovative approach to combining Latin ingredients with modern culinary techniques to create award-winning flavours spanning more than 60 locations and 4 continents.
So much so that the Financial Times has called him the ‘father of modern Mexican cuisine’ and published his celebrated cookbook New Latin Flavors.
Contact details
Address: Zengo Marbella, Hard Rock Hotel Marbella, C. las Malvas, 50, Nueva Andalucía, 29660 Marbella, (Málaga), Spain
Website: zengomarbella.com
