La Peña restaurant, where Bertín Osborne and Leticia Sabater have eaten "seafood by the shovelful"

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8 in the morning, four people from Valdepeñas (Ciudad Real) go to collect olives and take direct transport to Lorca (Murcia).

It supposes approximately three hours and 44 minutes of trip.

awaits them .

When they arrive

play and they will dance to it with the crab from The Little Mermaid.

It is not a hallucination or a

of Los Morancos, it is the

, where "you cannot tell everything that happens because then it loses its grace", explains its owner.

There aren't many secrets anywhere since Tiktok has been around.

A few weeks ago

where you can see practically the entire

and

Everything revolves around his claim:

when Pedro

and puts the seafood in the center of the table for the diners

But "there is much more" -Pedro insists on secrecy- everything starts at 2:00 p.m. and ends at 6:00 p.m.

Although La Peña does not throw anyone out and "some stay for drinks."

The first thing the tables see (most come to the restaurant by bus as a kind of pilgrimage or Imserso trip) is a

to start the feast.

Then the wheelbarrow comes out with the Spanish anthem.

Stone-aged beef.

They take out a bull and fight.

A

.

Then rock and roll begins to sound, the mythical: I will

(...).

," says Pedro.

All this show started only a year ago although it has been open since 1983.

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The performance arose on March 22, 2022 as a

, named Dominguín.

It all started with the wheelbarrow and shovel.

and, says the owner of La Peña, they paid him "a tribute" with a

"I really did it thinking that he was a bitch," Pedro confesses.

One of the 90 diners who came together at the end in this enclave recorded it, began to move in networks and Pedro saw an opportunity.

and I saw that people were excited."

Before these requests, La Peña was a roadside restaurant that worked with good ratings, now it's another story.

"A party" for some and "a restaurant facha" for others.

This last certainty summarizes the criticism -not by diners, but by Twitter users- that the restaurant has received after several videos went viral.

In La Peña there are

.

No

is missing

by

.

"If that is being an appearance... well, they can label me whatever they want. I don't conceive that people who have never come here or know me insult me."

He says it between angry and astonished, he really doesn't understand those symbols as typical of fascism.

"I don't care. I have friends from the left, from the right and from all kinds. That's what democracy is for, right? To have different ideals."

is CEO of the Gourmedia Gastronomic Marketing Agency and affirms that -from the point of view of advertising- these symbols "are risky" but they also imply positioning.

"A very specific audience will go there," says the marketing expert.

"What do you want to come this Sunday? Well, you don't have a table until May, there are no regular customers, there are so many reservations that they can't."

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Pedro is left thinking and blurts out: "Well... yes there is: my friend Rodrigo, who always has a table," he says with his Murcian accent.

"This weekend five guys from Brussels have come specifically to the restaurant."

At this point in the interview with LOC, the owner takes on a more intense tone and says: "Happiness doesn't exist, but I see happy people here and if we manage to make them forget about their problems during those hours, I already enjoy it a lot." .

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It is more or less the philosophy of someone who refers to his restaurant as "my house",

"And many more (...) Seafood is the least of it," says Pedro, who assures that he treats "everyone the same."

The most important thing is the attitude.

"Every day it changes because it depends a lot on the desire of the people."

-And a republican or an indepe would have a good time?

-It's impossible not to have a good time... But what's the point of telling it, you have to live it.

The day the anthem was a "joke"

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The first day that Pedro Lucas Avellaneda, 56, chose the anthem as the soundtrack for the seafood with shovels, it was "for a joke on an independentista friend."

She perfectly remembers that day: "It was May 8 and she was amused that when she played the anthem she didn't know it."

But what surprised him the most was the reaction of the people: everyone got up and was euphoric.

At that point, he decided to start putting it at every meal "because it cheers people up."

The rest of the symbols that hang on the wall of the restaurant "are memories" of people who pass by.

"I have a friend who is a lieutenant and one day he came with a Spanish flag and I hung it there."

It's his circle.

"The virgins were put by my father in the restaurant on his day."

Pedro has grown up in La Peña and has always surrounded himself with the bullfighting world.

In fact, he proudly assures that many well-known bullfighters have come to eat wild seafood.

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