J. Rodríguez

Amaya García Madrid

Madrid

Updated Thursday, April 4, 2024-00:05

  • A luxury Japanese for the new Santiago Bernabéu: 99 Sushi Bar will open a restaurant in the VIP boxes of the stadium

  • The VIP superbox that will crown the new Santiago Bernabéu and will be a restaurant and nightclub

«How are we going to be? "Very excited."

Iván Morales

is enthusiastic confirming the news that GRAN MADRID is announcing: one of the most traditional and successful taverns in the capital will have its space in the new Bernabéu. Arzábal has taken over the last restaurant pending award within the powerful gastronomic offer that Real Madrid has designed for its renovated stadium.

The most famous bar in Retiro, where popular and luxury mix in a concept later widely imitated by others, has accepted the challenge of importing its formula into the guts of the white temple, the new icon of the city. Arzábal will be located in the

north end, at door 33

, with a powerful 500 m2 premises and a forecast for close to 100 diners.

Two floors, a super booth, a delicatessen area, high tables, the undisputed bar... With a million-dollar investment, the couple of hoteliers behind the Arzábal brand,

Álvaro Castellanos and Iván Morales

, face the great challenge of the Bernabéu. «We have a tavern in Retiro, at the Reina Sofía, at the airport and in the San Miguel Market. We just needed to be in the Madrid field. “It is quite a challenge and a great illusion,” says Iván, now in the process of carrying out the complex work. Setting up a restaurant inside a stadium is not just anything.

Recreation of the entrance to the Arzábal del Bernabéu.EM

"If you give me a location in General Pardiñas, we will open in two weeks... But this is something else," he says when asked about dates. They don't set time targets, but they hope to be serving beers, their stellar butter or Moët with oysters as soon as possible. If it's in June, great. If not, at the latest, by the start of the next season, in September. The 90 meters of glass will give a unique background to the space, which will be open to the public every day that there is no game, when it will become a VIP area of ​​the club, with seats to watch the games. Of course, the catering will be from

Arzábal

, with the level it represents.

The consulting firm commissioned by Real Madrid to search for the best gastronomic brands looked at the tavern that grew up in

Menéndez Pelayo

. It entered the price range and national market that the brand new Bernabéu also wanted to present, converted from now on into much more than a football stadium thanks to its retractable roof and the grass storage system, which makes it the

largest

indoor

venue in Europe.

Álvaro Castellanos and Iván Morales, the owners of Arzábal, following the work of their tavern in the Bernabéu.

"That's the good thing about Arzábal, that you can have a beer or a vinazo with a spectacular chop," explains Morales. One of the differences compared to other gastro spaces in the

Chamartín

stadium will be the hours. In Arzábal, as in the rest of its locations, you can have a drink from first thing in the morning, strengthening the concept of a bar/tavern open to all audiences and tastes.

With the award to the

Arzábal

group , the new Santiago Bernabéu completes its gastronomic panel with a 99 Sushi bar restaurant, Puerta 47 (Grupo la Maquina), an area of ​​market stalls and the spectacular Sky Bar, the largest VIP box in the world , which wants to be open now for the next Madrid-Barcelona, ​​on April 21. The classic will be the appetizer of the event designated as the unofficial inauguration of the reform, with the Tylor Swift concerts, on May 29 and 30.