D * na Festival returns the next days September 30 and October 1, 2023 with a new edition, the sixth already, which will once again bring together renowned chefs, producers, restaurateurs and gourmets, on the Paseo de la Marineta Cassiana from Dénia to enjoy and learn from the particular way of understanding life and cuisine on the shores of the Mediterranean.
As Quique Dacosta, gastronomic curator of the festival, «in this new edition, D*na becomes thematic. Under the theme of the sea, it will explore the relationship between human beings and the sea and its importance as an economic, cultural, gastronomic and tourist axis. Thus, all the presentations, workshops, stands, products and suppliers will converge on the sea both conceptually and physically, as they will be developed along a route that this year is expanded to host even more scenarios and activities open to the public.
Presentations and show cooking by renowned chefs such as Ángel León, José Avillez, the Torres brothers and Maca de Castro, among many others, will take place on the main stage of the Festival. “We have invited cooks from the Iberian Peninsula and the islands from all those regions that have sea and that somehow treasure a wealth that is worthy of being counted in our D*na”, Quique Dacosta points out.
A second stage will be dedicated to the product, and renowned professionals from the kitchens of the Valencian Community will pass by to talk about seafood cuisine through stews and regional cauldrons. This setting will also host interesting cooking and seafood workshops, open to the public upon registration.
The product and its producers will also have their leading role through the numerous tasting stalls that will be located in a central square.
A tourist and gastronomic reference in the Mediterranean
The sixth edition of D*na consolidates this festival as one of the great gastronomic events in our country and positions the city of Dénia -which in 2015 was named Creative City of Gastronomy by UNESCO- as the gastronomic capital of the Mediterranean.
As a sign of this relevance, the presentation of the sixth edition of D*na – held today at the Llisa Negra restaurant in Valencia-, has had the participation of the Minister of Innovation, Industry, Commerce and Tourism of the Generalitat Valenciana, Nuria Montes and the mayor of Dénia, Vicent Grimalt, accompanied by Quique Dacosta and Rosa Martí, cook at the La Giralda restaurant in Dénia.
The festival is organized by the Dénia Creative City of Gastronomy Foundation of the Valencian Community and has the collaboration through an agreement between Turisme Comunitat Valenciana and the Dénia City Council. This public-private collaboration has been one of the values of the festival highlighted by Nuria Montes, who has stated that "an event like this can only go ahead through the collaboration of public administrations, Quique Dacosta and the entire business community of Dénia. A symbiosis that is a successful strategy". Montes has also described D*na as an "example of the strength of gastronomy as a tourist product, especially in the Valencian Community".
In this same sense, the mayor of Dénia, Vicent Grimalt, has expressed himself, noting that "in a few years, D*na has become another symbol of our city and a gastronomic and tourist reference of our Community."
For her part, the cook Rosa Martí, representing the Dianense restoration union, has stated that "D*na brings us all restaurateurs and we also have to support it, because it is the best publicity that can be done for Dénia."
You are protesting all day and you have to remember that Dénia is a tourist city and the work comes from tourism.
This quality tourism is better than that of Benidorm or Magaluf in Mallorca.
Another thing is that it is promoted and presented by the current Mayor and Compromis (someone must have voted for them)
Have they ever asked us if we want to be a tourist city?
Where do they distribute the “tourist city” stickers?
If this is the industry model we want for our future and the future of the city?
I remind you that the tourism industry has very little or practically no added value, the jobs it generates are of the lowest salary class and working conditions in hospitality in Spain are in many cases close to slavery.
And we're not even talking about real estate speculation by individuals and investment funds to take over properties to be able to rent them out for tourist purposes.
All this is tourism, a poison and slow death of our city.
No thanks.
The stickers are distributed by Jopelin
Well, nothing, since you want it to be a tourist city, we will dedicate ourselves to planting collard greens.
Tell me industries in Dénia to work for Mr. Pau
I appreciate your question.
The elected representatives of our city are obliged to fulfill their electoral promises, neither I nor you.
Let's see, the political composition of the current and previous city council has been voted on in the last elections based on its electoral program.
Just to remember, among many other points and proposed measures, there is the defense of the environment, a limit to the expansion of the construction of apartments dedicated to tourism along the entire coastline, strict regulation of the proliferation and control of tourist apartments, promotion of other sectors. oblivious to tourist seasonality, promote construction of affordable public or private housing and so on we could continue.
Also remember that during the pandemic when the restaurant and tourism sector was the first to request aid and subsidies to alleviate their losses (...after years of making gold), the mayor himself, who is the same as now, in this same magazine stressed several times that it is necessary to disengage from the temporality of tourism, look for alternatives to the economic model of our city appealing to the well-being and future of our population, so dependent on an insecure and volatile industry such as tourism.
Do you let us protest?
!!Everything for the people!! Urgggg. That is !! Political gentlemen Priorities, who are socialists, work for the "good health" of your Citizens. What a "posh" government, surely they are socialists?
The DNA is a great event for Dénia. This catapults the image and reputation of our city. Those €250.000 are well invested. Surely throughout the tourist season it is recovered in local businesses and in taxes many times that amount.
If they take the shopping center to Ondara we complain, if they take the ITV we complain, if they take the auditorium to Teulada we complain,...
Anyway, at least let's not look for it.
Recover public money with taxes and through private companies. Your logic is brutal. As limited as local politicians.
Very good Mr. Grimalt
This is how the interests of the people are taken care of, 250 thousand Euros of public funds to promote a man who charges a third of the average salary of Dianenses for a single meal.
Bravo for that government for everyone and for the benefit of all.
Shameful
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
Enjoy what you voted for.
Long live progress.
Mr. Grimalt, do not stop running in the next elections.
This event is incredible, it's a shame they don't do more like this.
It's just what Dénia needs.
Gastronomy is the future.
Now all that is missing is a decent Bus Station, a Theater-Auditorium and the Gandía-Denia train.
That should be the axis of the town hall.
So, my warmest congratulations.
Enjoy the D*na
How the Gatromafia likes to promote itself with the help of public resources and suck money.
Are they doing that bad?
They are going to teach us how to cook rice or a beef steak, who can afford it grilled?
Let us then promote delusions of grandeur of some deified chefs and let us forget about education, culture, the environment and public housing, which are not such important issues,
to be deserving of such juicy public subsidy.
In addition, the cooks, now chefs with I don't know what awards from a road guide, are going to talk about sustainability, which also has its jokes.
Since in their famous restaurants they use only the best and most select part of each product to prepare their dishes,
The rest that is not suitable for the most exquisite palates goes safely into the trash.
That they promote themselves if they need it, it would be missing but for their own money and their own resources.
Ordinary citizens have other and more important demands and needs.
Nice to have the list of all the subsidized pacifiers.
With a good stew everyone eats so much nonsense. They are there to teach sustainability classes.
250.000 euros paid by Dénia taxpayers. For this we pay taxes.
Neither health, nor education, nor housing that is worth.