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Quique Dacosta is a Spanish chef. He began his professional career as a chef in 1986. In 1988, he began working at the restaurant that became Quique Dacosta Restaurante.

Dacosta has been awarded the Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts and has also been appointed Best Spanish Restaurateur by the Royal Gastronomic Academy, has turned the Quique Dacosta Restaurant into an internationally renowned mecca for haute cuisine. His cuisine is inspired by the food and geographies of the Mediterranean Sea and the Montgó Natural Park.

Today, he is known around the world for his artistic culinary expression. He has become a chef who uses his culture and territory like a banner, personifying quality, excellence, innovation and tradition.

He is the director and culinary creator of the Hotel Mandarin Oriental Ritz in Madrid. Deessa, one of his restaurants within the hotel, received its first Michelin star just seven months after its opening.

Dacosta has created ArrosQD, a restaurant based in London. Other restaurants that he has created or owns include ArrosQD, El Poblet, Llisa negra, Vuelve Carolina and Mercatbar. Dacosta has also published De Tapas con Quique Dacosta ("Tapas with Quique Dacosta"), a recipe book compiling 80 of his restaurants' recipes.