Logroño (EFE).- Filmmaker Isabel Coixet’s passage through La Rioja to shoot what will be her next film, based on the novel “Un amor” by Sara Mesa, has led to the fact that, in the last few weeks, it has been marketed in Logroño the “Isabel Coixet Japanese croquette”, made up of salmon, white miso and “love”.
This is the name of one of the dishes that can be ordered at the Divina Croqueta bar, located next to the famous Calle Laurel in the capital of La Rioja, and which has become one of the five types of croquettes most requested by curious diners. to know its taste.
This was stated to Efe by the co-owner of this establishment, Isabella Loro, who explained that this initiative arose at the beginning of filming in La Rioja de Coixet, who stopped by Divina Croqueta to have a wine and suggested to the waiter to join the menu a croquette that he usually makes at home.
It was Coixet herself who proposed the name of the croquette and who spoke with the cook of this gourmet bar during filming to “tell her the ingredients, after which she began to prepare it and the truth is that people are delighted.”
“It has been in the top five sales of croquettes since we put it on, which was the first week of filming, in mid-February, and the truth is that it is liking it a lot”, he highlighted.
He has detailed that the “Isabel Coixet Japanese Croquette” is made with “fresh salmon, white miso and coated, instead of with normal breadcrumbs, with panko, which is Japanese breadcrumbs, and then has a special touch from the cook that is a secret”.
“We have a wide variety of croquettes, but we always try to have something with a little more innovation, and this one is different, it’s made with love, like the movie,” he assured.
Loro has indicated that Coixet is “a very close woman who really likes gastronomy”, so “the issue of creating this croquette began to arise and it was very easy and not complicated at all”.
The day this gastronomic creation was finally ready and Coixet herself was able to taste it, “she loved it”, which is why she took two of the actors from her new film, Hugo Silva and Laia Costa, to taste it at Divina itself. Croqueta, a bar through which “the entire film crew has passed and everyone was delighted”, he highlighted.
“It is the first time that we have a croquette dedicated to a person, and people come to try it because it is Isabel Coixet’s croquette and out of curiosity to see what it is like,” he pointed out.
Currently, he continued, you can only taste this croquette if you go to the Divina croquette in person, but it will become part of the online catalog of this bar so that “everyone can try it, because it has been an experience very beautiful for the whole team and it has been done with a lot of love”.
In addition, another of the businesses that Loro is co-owner of, the El Arriero Hermanas Loro restaurant, located in Sorzano, has been in charge of catering for the Coixet film crew in La Rioja.
“It was a challenge for us to get into the shooting, the first in which we did a catering, and the first days were hard because we spent many hours, but we ended up excited that the shooting was over,” she remarked. EFE
Sergio Jimenez Foronda