Javier Mayor

The Climb

Javier Mayor’s craft was built through a sequence of kitchens, each one adding pressure, repetition, and responsibility. He started as cook at Frontón de Tolosa, Guipúzcoa, then continued as cook at La Broche and cook at Pan de Lujo. The path moved on to cook at Las Rejas in Las Pedroñeras, Cuenca, then to cook at La Sucursal in Valencia, where pace and precision sharpened the discipline already in place. He later worked as cook at SantCeloni before becoming chef de cocina; mano derecha at DiverXO in Madrid, a role that marked trust as much as rank. Today, Javier is co-founder / entrepreneur of TriCiclo (since 2013), chef of Grupo Triciclo, chef of Villa Verbena, and chef of El Taller del Lago. The titles show a progression from a single Madrid opening to the wider group that formed around it.

Today

In 2013, after years of friendship and working together in kitchens, Mayor joined forces with Javier Goya to open TriCiclo in Madrid. The project began without theatrics; it started from a practical question about the restaurant they themselves would want to eat in. From that premise, TriCiclo became the Madrid address that anchored the wider group. The opening was shaped by work as much as by intent. The early days were hands-on before they were polished, and the build happened alongside the cooking. In 2015, looking back on the start, he said, “Yes. We took part in the construction work so it would be cheaper for us; we had never knocked down walls or taken out rubble, but we did it; we painted, polished chairs, and did a lot of things we had never done before.” The timing mattered, too: “We were in 2013, in the middle of the crisis, and we got the neighborhood right.”

In Their Words “Yes. We took part in the construction work so it would be cheaper for us; we had never knocked down walls or taken out rubble, but we did it; we painted, polished chairs, and did a lot of things we had never done before.” “We were in 2013, in the middle of the crisis, and we got the neighborhood right.”

Recognition

Recognition has come through responsibility: Mayor is a chef leader and reference for Grupo Triciclo in Madrid, Spain. The lasting marker is continuity. TriCiclo began in 2013 with Mayor tied to its founding, and that origin still frames the work that followed.

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