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Fire under Abramzon’s name

The meat reaches the pass from the fire, and Martin Abramzon, Chef at Kutral por Martin Abramzon in Ronda, keeps the gesture close to the grill. His restaurant sits on the edge of town, away from the old center, inside a converted industrial warehouse where the cooking method is not hidden behind the kitchen wall. The house was opened in 2019, and its authorship is plain: chef, door, fire, name. Abramzon trained at Gato Dumas Institute and IAG, the Argentine Institute of Gastronomy, before his work settled into this address in Ronda. That foundation matters because Kutral is built on a discipline that can look simple from the dining room. Meat, salt, heat, time. The method leaves little cover for a weak cut or an uncertain hand. The chef’s position here is not described through a long brigade or a public succession line. It is more direct than that. Kutral is the current professional station attached to Abramzon’s name, and the restaurant’s identity depends on his control of the flame, the cut, and the moment of service.

The oven as the station

The center of the room is a giant welded steel open-fire oven, built less as ornament than as working architecture. Wagyu, Black Angus, Argentine veal, solomillo, Iberian black pig, and Simental chop form the grammar of the menu, with the Argentine asado tradition translated through Spanish sourcing and a la carte service. The kitchen’s confidence rests in minimal intervention. A chop can arrive at the bench as a question of breed, fat, thickness, and heat, then leave with roasted peppers, sea salt, baked potato with sour cream, or chimichurri. Abramzon’s fire also takes on smaller gestures: empanadillas argentinas before the meat, provoleta brought to the point where the surface bubbles and chars, steak tartare finished with foie gras powder, grilled avocado, meatballs worked with boletus, truffle, palo cortado, and carabinero sauce. The 2020 National Parrilleros Competition in Andalusia recognized his chuleta de vaca, but the daily test remains more exacting. The pass asks whether the cut has been respected.

A warehouse made intimate by flame

The room keeps its industrial bones. Steel, open volume, and the scale of the warehouse are softened by the way the fire gathers attention, so the space feels spacious rather than exposed. Conversation can hold its shape. The dining room looks toward the work, not as theatre alone, but as a way of reading the meal before it arrives. In a restaurant built around meat, sight matters: the glow at the oven, the resting rhythm, the movement from fire to plate. Kutral’s wine program follows that weight, with wine, cava, and malbec in the glass rather than a list trying to outtalk the grill. The setting is elegant without turning formal. It suits the food’s discipline: a room where the bench is the flame, and the final word can be a Simental chop.