Midi midday menu by El Lago and Michelin star menu by night. Two concepts of the same cuisine based on market produce from the Málaga area. The El Lago restaurant is one of the few restaurants with a Michelin star situated on a golf course, more precisely at Greenlife Marbella. It is a 19th hole impossible not to visit, be it before or after a round of golf.

To sit on their terrace with views of the lake is a pleasure for our senses, either under the sun or delighting in the romantically reflected moonlight.

Restaurante El Lago de Marbella’s concept was created by Paco García with Juanjo Carmona as executive chef and it is one of the key elements of the development of High Gastronomy in Málaga.

Among the qualities that make it unique is the huge labour that has been undertaken to favour and spread the awareness of the most exclusive products in Málaga and Andalucía. Highlights are the introduction to Gourmet Cuisine of Málaga-style suckling goat (chivo lechal malagueño) in the first place and after it payoyo-style suckling goat (chivo lechal payoyo); also olives pickled Álora-style (aceitunas aloreñas) historically present at the beginning of the gastronomic dinner at the restaurant.

El Lago is one of the founding members of Marbella All Stars

Also, the best Extra Virgin Olive Oils in Málaga and distinctively local seafood products such as Estepona’s extraordinary octopus or Marbella’s red mullet. There is a great presence of andalusian hand-made cheeses.

El Lago has been the first gastronomical restaurant in Málaga to include the province’s wines in its wine list, always spreading knowledge about them and their consumption among their clients and the rest of the sector.

More recently in this line, they’ve worked with the bull’s ball tomato (tomate huevo de toro), of which they are great proponents and in whose recovery and diffusion they have worked intensively with the Guadalhorce Valley Rural Development Group.

Pioneering in Sustainability
El Lago have been groundbreakers giving impulse to the Slow Food movement in Andalucía. In fact, they were the first Gourmet Cuisine restaurant in Andalucía and one of the first in Spain with the good fortune of getting the Kilómetro 0 certification in 2011. This movement demands a high minimum use of locally grown produce. Currently, practically the whole of the products that come to their kitchen are from the local environs.

The first Gourmet Cuisine restaurant in Andalucía and one of the first in Spain with the good fortune of getting the Kilómetro 0 certification

The team at Restaurante El Lago have also pioneered the introduction of artisanal bread crafted by themselves with unrefined flour these past two years. This is a tendency that is now more and more widespread.

El Lago is one of the founding members of Marbella All Stars, a not-for-profit association that has as its objective to continue articulating and increasing visibility of Gourmet Cuisine, in Marbella as well as the rest of the province.

As impellers of healthy Gourmet Cuisine
El Lago have recently given a turn of the screw with the search for healthful menus. In this sense, they’ve just attained the certification by the nutritional doctor Luis Almagro as healthy. To achieve this the menu has had to meet a series of standards such as: a greater percentage of dishes of vegetable origin as opposed to animal provenance, a preponderance of fish over meat, absence of industrially processed products and a control of the use of salt and sugar.

Treat yourself and visit this restaurant: their tasting menu with the possibility of wine and food pairing, their service and the venue turn every visit to El Lago into a whole Culinary Experience you won’t forget.