On Thursday night, LaSexta premiered Batalla de Restaurantes, Alberto Chicote’s new program. A format that reaches national television after triumphing in the Catalan and Basque regional elections. In the program, four restaurants from the same city compete to obtain a prize of 10,000 euros and the recognition of being the best in their field.
In this first program, Chicote traveled to Cádiz, where four restaurants were involved in the preparation of their bluefin tuna: Ciclo, by Luís Callealta, and Burlesque, by Ramón Barberi, in Cádiz capital; and Puerto Mío, by María Florencia Centeno and Villanos Bistró Canalla, by Juan Pedro Medina, in Puerto de Santa María. An entertainment program… In which knives and poisoned darts flew.
What began as a friendly “war” soon became a battle with inevitable tension. Especially between two of the chefs, Ramón Barberi and Juan Pedro Medina, since the second decided to begin his journey through the program by criticizing the first’s barbecue sauce and doubting its homemade origin, something that did not sit well with Barberi.
“You can see that he is a guy with character. He has a strong disposition, but I think he is a ‘know-it-all’ and a ‘know-it-all’,” said Barberi, harshly, referring to Medina in front of the cameras.
Obviously, Barberi was not going to sit idly by, and he returned it as soon as he had the opportunity when he went to visit his restaurant. Bluntly, she criticized everything she could, bringing out the homemade and the industrial again.
“In my house, what I don’t have homemade is bread,” Barberi stated, to which Medina reminded him that he also had “barbecue sauce.” At that moment, Barberi bursts out: “Sorry, in their house everyone does what they want. I offered what was in mine, which you think is good or bad, it’s respectable.”
“I thought I saw a dagger,” said Alberto Chicote, given the tense situation caused by the barbecue sauce. A reaction that was supported by viewers who watched the program and commented on it on social networks, who pointed out the “aggressive” attitude of some contestants.
Finally, after some controversial voting in which there was also discussion and tension, Ciclo came in first position with a 7.2, followed by Villanos Bistró Canalla with a 6. Only four tenths away is the third place, Burlesque, with a 5.6 and Puerto Mío occupies the bottom of the classification with a 4.4.
