Sara Peral and Jorge Muñoz, from the Osa restaurant (Madrid), Revelation Chef award 2024

Sara Peral and Jorge Muñozfrom the renowned Madrid restaurant Osa, have won the prize of Best Newcomer Chef at the 22nd edition of the Madrid Fusión gastronomic congressone of the most important gastronomic conferences in the world.

The two young people from Madrid have been the winners in a year in which Avila Carlos Casillas (Barro, Ávila) has won second position and Alatz Bilbao (from the Bakeade restaurant in Vizkaya) and Iris Jordan (Ansils, Huesca) have won exequo the third prize.

“This is very exciting, it is the first edition in which there have been more women. Thanks to this contest, no one wins, we all win and we put in position many colleagues who work hard and almost no one knows and that's how today you know them,” Peral said after collecting the award.

Osa is a small restaurant with capacity for around twenty diners. where menus depend on the season and always change. They have a maturation chamber full of game, poultry and sausages. The couple of chefs formed in Mugaritz where they coincided, La Tasquita de Enfrente and Picones de María him, DiverXO or Coque ella.

A window to the future

“The Madrid Fusión Newcomer Chef Award underlines the daring and youthful capacity that many newly opened restaurants harbor and that They are a window to the future of the profession“, they say from the organization of Madrid Fusión.

Some of the most renowned chefs in our country, both inside and outside its borders, were awarded this award in the beginning. Among them, Dabiz Muñoz, Ricard Camarena, Rodrigo de la Calle and Óscar Callejawho have been recognized on different occasions for their restaurants in the most important gastronomic guides in the country, such as the Michelin Guide or the Repsol Guide.

Among the candidates to obtain the 'Revelation Chef' award at Madrid Fusión were in this edition Carlos Casillasfrom Barro (Ávila); Sara Peral and Jorge Muñozfrom Osa (Madrid); Alexander Villafrom El Café de Pandora (Avilés); Marco Antonio Iniesta and María Egeafrom Phrases (Murcia); Brais Pichelfrom Terra (Fisterra, A Coruña); Alatz Bilbaofrom Peace (Mungia, Vizcaya), Iris Jordan Martinfrom Ansils (Ansiles, Huesca) and Aitor Lópezfrom Citrus del Tancat (Alcanar, Tarragona).

Other winners

In addition, the congress has awarded other awards, which have gone to the following names: Pablo Cadavid (La Yerbita), awarded with the award of the XI Author's Sandwiches Contest; Carlos Griffo and Miguel Ángel Garcíawinners of the 10th Championship for the Best Iberian Ham Croquette; Ruben Sanchez (Epilogue), awarded in the V National Pickle Competition; María José Martínez (Lienzo), awarded in the IV Sustainability Award; Iris Jordan (Ansils), winner of the II Spanish Tapas Championship; Miguel Carretero (Santerra) and Gonzalo Silla (Vuelve Carolina), winners in the Potatoes Bravas Contest; and Leticia Palomo (Ugo Chan), winner of the 1st Sala Revelation Award.