magoga team
Between María Gómez and Adrián de Marcos
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Between Campo de Cartagena and his family
Born in Fuente Álamo (1987), a village of agricultural and livestock farming tradition in the Campo de Cartagena region, she remembers as if it were yesterday her grandmother cooking while she watched her fascinated.
She learned the value of tradition and the avant-garde from the best chefs in Spain, at Arzak and at El Bulli. Since 2014, she shares with her husband, Adrián de Marcos, the gastronomic and executive management of Magoga, in Cartagena, where they have achieved 1 Michelin star and 2 Repsol suns, digging through her childhood memories and researching the gastronomic history between Cartagena and the Region of Murcia.
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Between honesty and gastronomic flair
Since he was a child, Adrián de Marcos (Madrid, 1987) has been closely linked to the world of gastronomy. At the age of ten, he was already the ‘little cook’ in his house, and at 22 he took the definitive step, when he enrolled in Karlos Arguiñano’s catering school, AIALA. There, his path crossed that of María Gómez, and since then, they have been inseparable.
He began his gastronomic career in prestigious restaurants such as Zuberoa and Arzak, but he always wanted to embark on his own adventure together with María Gómez, in Cartagena. This is how Magoga was born in 2014, where he decided to leave the kitchen and become head waiter and sommelier, winning several awards, such as the Best Sommelier of the Region of Murcia and the Q of Cheeses for the Best Cheese Menu in Restaurants.
