Quique Dacosta Mahou dinner pairs four beers for €39
Five courses, four Mahou beers and one confirmed date. The chef's two Michelin-starred restaurants are on the programme, but their prices and dates are still to come.
The Quique Dacosta Mahou partnership, called Entre Estrellas, opens on 19 November 2026 at Vuelve Carolina, the chef's bar in Valencia, with a dinner that pairs four Mahou beers with his kitchen's dishes for €39 a head. Seats are limited and the menu is served at dinner only.
The name does the arithmetic. Mahou Cinco Estrellas, the lager at the centre of the deal, carries five stars on its label; Quique Dacosta Restaurante in Dénia, with three Michelin stars, and Flores Raras in Valencia, with two, add up to five more. No financial terms have been published.
What the Quique Dacosta Mahou menu serves
Five stars on a beer label and five from Michelin: the €39 dinner is the easy part.
The evening starts with a caña of Mahou Cinco Estrellas and a parmesan "stone". A first round, poured with Mahou IPA, brings a foie gras royale created for the occasion by the kitchens of Flores Raras and Quique Dacosta Restaurante, a red tuna carpaccio pizza with shiso vinaigrette, and prawn dumplings with carabinero bisque and squid noodles.
Roast pork rib tacos with kimchi, red cabbage and mint come next, alongside Vuelve Carolina's patatas bravas, both with the unfiltered version of Cinco Estrellas. Grilled lamb shawarma with roasted aubergine goes with Mahou Reserva, before a dessert the published menu does not describe. Bookings run through Mahou's website, which lists two menus at Vuelve Carolina from €39.
Four restaurants, one date confirmed
The programme is meant to travel through four of Dacosta's restaurants. Llisa Negra, his Valencia grill, is next in January 2027, with the date still to be fixed. Flores Raras, where Carolina Álvarez runs the kitchen, is listed for a four-hands dinner with Dacosta that Mahou's site marks as "coming soon". Quique Dacosta Restaurante has no date at all. Deessa, his two-star dining room in Madrid, the brewer's home city, is not on the list.
"I don't see beer as something that isn't intertwined with gastronomy," Dacosta told Valencia Extra, adding that different styles of beer let a table tell a story. Mahou, which traces its brewing back more than 135 years, presents the project as a meeting of brewing craft and research-led cooking. None of the published material mentions a special-edition beer: the four on the table are already on supermarket shelves.
Brewers have courted Spanish haute cuisine before. Estrella Damm developed Inedit with Ferran Adrià's elBulli team in 2008, a new beer built for the table. Entre Estrellas is more modest, a run of dinners rather than a new bottle, and it stays close to home: our guide to what to eat in Valencia covers the city around these tables.
Prices for the two starred restaurants have not been announced. That is where the stars will be counted again.
