Marco Acosta, owner of Eight Burgers, presents in an interview with the Más de Uno Gourmet space of Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero his new concept for the mornings in the same place, although with different decoration: Eight cakes.
Acosta, who launched Eight Burgers taking advantage of the hours in which a restaurant of some friends in Arrecife closed, now takes advantage of his own place to expand his business also to the mornings.
- Where is your place?
With Eight Hamburgers, Eight Countries we started on Sundays at the Salitre place, which closed that day. Now I am doing it in the place next to the church of San Ginés, the one in the little corner.
- And how do the cakes and hamburgers share the schedule?
From Thursday to Sunday, from 7:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. it is eight burgers, while from Wednesday to Sunday from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. it is eight cakes.
Imagine how much the concept changes that even the paintings, when you go in the morning, are inspired by the branding of cakes and when you go in the afternoon there are others to set the hamburgers.
- A few years ago it was unthinkable that an entrepreneur would dare to communicate a concept for his place in the mornings and another for the afternoons…
Yes, I think it has been influenced by the increases in rents, the fact that everything is relatively more expensive, products, workers, social security… The self-employed pay a lot for our activity.
- What is the concept of Eight Cakes?
It is a brand a little more sophisticated than Eight Burgers, which is a brand that makes a lot more noise like me.
They are eight cakes inspired by eight countries, like with the hamburgers, but this time focused on breakfasts and lunches. Every month we are going to have dishes related to the fruit that is in season. This month we have a watermelon salad and watermelon gazpacho.
As we are also in blackberry season, the exclusive cake this week has a blackberry jam that I was picking with my mother.
- One of your cakes is cheese, tell me its story…
It is a cake inspired by America based on cheddar cheese, which I have never seen in cakes. It is a cheese that we use a lot in hamburgers. To me, America sounds like cheddar and crispy bacon. For the cake we have used a crispy cured bacon on top, which gives it a salty touch.
- Tell us about some of the other cakes…
There is one that I am especially fond of. It is called La Canaria, and it is a gofio and banana cake with semi-cured cheese from Montaña de Haría.
The Italian one goes with Parmesan and Pecorino cheese and so on up to eight passing through several countries.