Throughout the year a multitude of gastronomic competitions are held, most of which help to raise awareness of a typical local or regional dish and to preserve traditional recipes that form part of our culture and essence.

But today we want to talk about the ones we like the most, the gastronomic competitions that highlight a specific product. We know that having the right basis is the first step to achieve a quality product, and not only in the quality product, and not only in the kitchen, but in any good or product that is manufactured. that is manufactured. When you seek excellence in your work, you must pursue it and demand it from start to finish. and demand it from start to finish, because if at any stage the level drops, the whole suffers. level falls, the whole suffers irremediably.

That's why gastronomic competitions that revolve around a specific specific product seem to us to be a great and necessary idea, because they are, they are also a commitment to the place where they are held, to its economic, business and cultural development. economic, business and cultural development.

These days, the pomegranate, pomegranate mollar de Elche, citrus fruit in Palmera, and of course, the mollar de Elche, of citrus fruits in Palmera, and of course, that of our beloved Dénia, revolving, of course, around its red shrimp. revolving, as it could not be otherwise, around its red shrimp. But there are and luckily there are more and more every day.

In addition to highlighting the quality of the product to which they are dedicated these kinds of competitions give visibility to restaurants like ours, where we are passionate about researching, experimenting and in which we are passionate about researching, experimenting and reinterpreting recipes and flavours in order to recipes and flavours in order to show all the possibilities that products and techniques offer us. techniques offer us.

They contribute not only to highlighting the value of their product, but also the creativity and professionalism of the chefs involved. the creativity and professionalism of the chefs who take part in them.

In our view they are an effective application of some of the themes on which the past was structured. some of the themes on which the past was structured. D*NA Forum with whose with whose objectives we identify so strongly.

Together we all add up and contribute to the responsible development of our environment. responsible development of our environment.