The chef | Leaves Restaurant

The chef

Juan Luis Dastis

Add to his career, collaborations with large gastronomic spaces doing openings, launches, design and menu development tasks. Getting big hits.

He traveled to Barcelona again, this time managing kitchens of the Costa Este Group, where for 4 years he continued learning in restaurants such as Opium, Pacha or Café del Mar.

Juan Luis is a lover of seasonal products, restless, always ready to travel to the most remote corners of the world to discover new flavors to capture in his dishes, thus giving a different and international touch to our highly acclaimed Mediterranean cuisine.

The wood oven and the grill will be your main tools to leave us all with our mouths open.

Juan Luis Dastis

A native of Madrid and a chef by birth, with a history of more than 25 years working with fires, he landed at Falling Leaves after many years working in different parts of the world.

After going through the hotel school, he began his professional career working with great figures such as the great Salvador Gallego or Alberto Chicote.

He moves to London in search of new adventures and with the desire to internationalize his culinary knowledge. From a leading Spanish restaurant in the city, to the famous Harry’s bar with Alberico Penatti, a leading chef in the world of international gastronomy.

He settled for years at Harrods as head chef, thus beginning to give free rein to his passion, cooking.

He decides to return to his hometown, Madrid, to continue his dream as head chef in prestigious restaurants in the city.

Firma Juan Luis Dastis