Namúa restaurant (Av. del Puerto, 271) in Poblats Marítims in Valencia has won first prize in the first Valencian coca route in Valencia.
Its winning recipe, sea and mountain, is composed of tuna marinated with soy and citrus, guacamole, acorn-fed Iberian bacon, poached quail egg and seaweed.
This coca will be served for another month off the menu. Until June 27 for a price of 10 euros, which includes the coca and Ambar beer.
The jury, composed of the gastronomic creator Elena Fernández (@abocadomio), the blog Encuinarte and the journalist and writer Vicent Marco, valued this proposal as the best of the three that reached the final, previously selected by popular vote.
The other two finalists were the one from the Beirut Ruzafa restaurant -a Shawarma-style reinterpretation with double marinated chicken, hummus, feta cheese, pomegranate molasses and oriental spices- and the one from La Chata Ultramarinos, called ‘La Coqueta’, made with melted sobrasada, pickled onion, torrezno popcorn and parmesan with mistela syrup.
The Ruta de les Coques, which began last May 12 and ended this past weekend, was an initiative promoted by the Ambar brewery and by the hotelier Andrés García and the journalist Iris Montoya to highlight this traditional recipe of Mediterranean gastronomy.
13 restaurants in Valencia were invited to reinterpret the coca in a creative way, among them Culture, Bambar, Zalamero, A Huevo, Clementina, Fets, Barbaritats, Alenar, Borgia and Cytrus.