Aponiente

Top choice in El Puerto de Santa María

Audacious is the word for the bold experimentation of leading Spanish chef Angel León, whose seafood-biased nueva cocina has won a cavalcade of awards, transforming Aponiente into Andalucía's first triple-Michelin-starred restaurant. Occupying a design-led 19th-century tide mill, Aponiente splits opinion in traditional El Puerto: some snort at its pretension, others salivate at the thought of its uber-imaginative 21-course tasting menus.

Aponiente is 1.5km northeast of the centre. For a tapas-sized, town-centre taster of León's culinary magic, dine at creative sister venture La Taberna del Chef del Mar.

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Molino de Mareas El Caño, Calle Francisco Cossi Ochoa

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956 85 18 70

https://www.aponiente.com/

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