Alberto Chicote is in a very good moment professionally. This year, the chef has started a new television adventure, the program Battle of Restaurants, broadcast on La Sexta. On the other hand, the chef is also now recording a new installment of Kitchen Nightmare, the project that has been successful on television for years. Now, it has been learned that one of the establishments that gave the chef so many headaches has lowered its blinds.
As we said before, Chicote has no shortage of professional projects. Currently, he is triumphing with Restaurant Battle, the program in which different hoteliers compete to be the best in their town. It is the adaptation of a format that has previously triumphed on regional channels such as TV3, with its famous Joc de cartes. It has also triumphed in Madrid and the Valencian Community.
While Atresmedia broadcasts the first season of this new format, the chef is recording Pesadilla en la cocina again, the program that has made him successful on television for so long. Although it has lost some of its viewers in recent years, the format remains a success. Now, news related to one of the establishments that caused the most controversy in the program has come to light.
It is nothing new: the majority of restaurants that requested help from the LaSexta program have closed their doors due to poor management, lack of influx or economic problems. However, among those that were still open, one of the most controversial cases in the history of the format stood out, a place that gave the Madrid chef a particularly headache.
This is the ‘Taberna la Concha’, an establishment that was part of the third season, back in 2014. It is a restaurant located in El Rocío, run by Antonio, a hotelier with a lot of character who screamed during the recording and left the restaurant. and he even broke the dishes in his own business. This restaurateur ended Alberto’s patience and became one of the most tense programs in the history of the format.
The restaurant has remained open all these years, however, now its social networks announce that it is closing. “We are closing the Rocío restaurant. A big hug from all of us who make up this emblematic restaurant in the Aldea del Rocío, which will go down in history as ‘Antonio el de Chicote,'” the statement read. Without a doubt, the end of one of the most historic establishments in the program.
