Carmelo Pérez: "The kitchen and the service were very important in Zalacain, but discretion was even more so"

Gastronomy

One day after the closure of the legendary Madrid restaurant was made public, the one who was its maitre d between 2005 and 2018 looks back

Carmelo Pérez (Guarrate, Zamora, 1952) was

.

He had taken over from the mythical José Jiménez Blas and later gave the witness to Carmen González.

Self-taught, he

and stayed at Clodoaldo Cortés's restaurant for more than 30 years, until his signing for

, with some parentheses at

(1976-1982) and

from Marbella (1982-1986), both from the same group.

Retired for two years, he now lives in Marbella, the city to which he moved a few months ago, because the spring confinement in Madrid was very difficult for him.

There, his phone has practically not stopped ringing in the last 24 hours, sought by people who conveyed their regret for the closure of what, probably, has been the most emblematic restaurant in the history of Spanish gastronomy.

He confesses deeply saddened by what happened "because of a bug" and worried about the future employment of all employees.

Carmelo Pérez is one of the greatest room managers that has existed not only in Spain, but in the world, but, above all, he is a great man.

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