CASA BRUMA

Twenty-eight seats on the last terrace before the sea. Everything touches encina wood before it reaches you.

Seating: 20:00, once a night
Table: 28 covers
Closed: Sunday & Monday

We cook the weather.

The mist comes off the water at dusk and sits on the Sierra Blanca until the fire is lit. That hour decides the menu — not a printed card written three months ago.

There is one seating. The kitchen buys what the boats at La Bajadilla landed that morning and what the Ronda growers cut that week, and then it stops buying. When the last plate leaves, the night is finished.

Everything meets encina — holm oak, cut above Istán, burned down to white ash before a single thing touches the grill. It is a slower way to cook and a harder one to staff, and it is the only reason this room exists.

Aurelio Sanz-Prieto, kitchen

Sardines threaded onto cane skewers, propped at an angle beside an open driftwood fire and cooked in the smoke. — Espetos, set at the angle the wind decides.

Six plates, most nights.

The list below is what left the pass yesterday. Tomorrow it will be three-quarters the same and one-quarter whatever the boats bring.

A row of grilled sardines on a blue-rimmed plate with a wedge of lemon. — Sardinas al espetoSix minutes over ash, salt, nothing else

A charred octopus tentacle resting on a bed of potato purée in a shallow bowl. — Pulpo a la brasaCharred hard, patatas from the same hill

Half-shell mussels dressed with garlic, breadcrumb and parsley on a white plate. — Mejillones al ajilloGarlic, breadcrumb, a lot of parsley

Tonight

Written at 17:40, served at 20:00

Ajoblanco, almendra de Ronda, moscatel cold almond, three years of vine 14
Gambas de Motril on the ash forty seconds, black garlic, nothing else 22
Salmonete de roca, escabeche de azafrán line-caught off Cabopino this morning 26
Arroz de la sierra, conejo, romero for two, thirty-five minutes, worth the wait 28
Presa ibérica, brasa de encina, piquillo bellota, rested longer than it cooked 32
Leche frita, helado de aceite olive oil from the same hill as the wood 11

Wine is poured by the glass from Jerez, Ronda and Montilla — no list, no ceremony. Tell the room what you drink and it will find it.

A dining room at dusk seen through a wide stone arch, tables laid, hills and water beyond.

“You eat facing the water because the water is the reason any of this is here.”

A warmly lit dining room with exposed timber beams, lamplight and long wooden tables. — Doors at 19:30. The fire is already an hour old.

The room holds twenty-eight.

One long table of lime-washed pine, six two-tops along the rail, and the fire close enough that you will smell it in your coat tomorrow.

Where: Camino de la Bruma 12
29602 Marbella, Málaga
When: Tuesday to Saturday
Doors 19:30, seated 20:00
Word: [email protected]

Ask for a table.

We answer every request by hand, usually the same evening. If the night you want is full we will say so plainly rather than seat you badly.