María José Martínez’s name was also heard loud and clear at the gala held on the 14th  December when she won the first Michelin star for the restaurant Lienzo.

Paying homage to the sea, Lienzo is best described as the trendy Michelin-starred restaurant in Valencia with transgressive, avant-garde and affordable cuisine.

A restaurant in a former art gallery that maintains its spirit, has temporary exhibitions and offers a product and seasonal cuisine that is a work of art with creative and avant-garde recipes and dishes that are transgressive, very rich and visually full of colour.

Regarded as the Michelin-starred restaurant in Valencia that you can afford, Lienzo occupies a premises that was once an art gallery and they wanted to maintain this spirit because after all, the cuisine is also art and they wanted to connect the past and the history of the place with the present.

In fact, it’s not just a restaurant, it also serves a temporary exhibition hall with works by prominent local painters.