The Masterchef restaurant in Madrid (Calle de Velázquez, 150) closes after the service this Thursday, July 31. The restaurant, located in the heart of the Salamanca neighborhood, will say goodbye after seven years and having fed 500,000 diners.
This is what they have recalled through a video posted on their Instagram account, in which they thank -in capital letters- a “wonderful stage full of memories, thousands of gastronomic proposals and hundreds of friends”.
At the time of writing these lines, there is still availability on their website to make reservations for a last dinner between 20:30h and 22:30h: a tasting menu is offered for children up to 12 years old for 38€ and another for 63€ from that age (both without drink included).
Why is the Masterchef restaurant closing?
Although the news was known since last June, in the comments you can read many people who were taken by surprise by this information: “It can’t be! I’m going to Madrid in September and I dreamed of visiting them? Why? After waiting so long”, reads a comment from the user @sharonhernandez1969.
In a similar vein, @pepita_gustavo commented: “I can’t believe it. I had to go. Why are you closing? I see that there are many of us who don’t want it to happen”.
Well: the reason for the closure, as Roberto Franci -owner of the restaurant’s license- explained to El Paísis none other than his retirement: “It’s terrible to have to close it. The MasterChef restaurant has been a success story,” he told journalist Paz Álvarez in that interview.
In its place, a new restaurant will be opened by the Arturo Cantoblanco restaurant group. However, the trajectory of the Masterchef restaurant might not end definitively here: in the biography of his Instagram account they leave the door open to a possible reopening with a “Closed temporarily”.
The passageway of Plaza España will once again have a restaurant.
As far as restaurant closures in Madrid are concerned, there are still some that continue to hurt even though years have passed. Six years have passed since the mythical Chinese restaurant located in the subway passageway of Plaza España closed its doors , and now it will be back in business.
The refurbishment works will be finished by the end of the year and Borja Carabante, delegate of the Urbanism, Environment and Mobility Area of the Madrid City Council, has confirmed that commercial activity will be recovered, including a new restaurant that can be accessed directly from the square.