Benito Martínez Ocasio (28 years old, Puerto Rico), known worldwide as Bad Bunny, has a new facet: nothing more and nothing less than in the culinary world. He did it last night at the opening of new Gekkō restaurant, located in the financial heart of Miami. The Beckhams attended the event, from David and Victoria to their children Cruz and Brooklyn. Also some Victoria’s Secret angels like Candice Swanepoel or Vita Sidorkina, and great Hollywood personalities like the actor Andy García and the director Michael Bay.
Bad Bunny is not been satisfied with dominating your Spotify and on the screen of your cinema (he has just released the film Bullet Train with Brad Pitt and is preparing a movie from the Marvel universe as the protagonist for 2024; El Muerto). He now also enters the world of gastronomy as a partner of entrepreneur David Grutman, who also runs another restaurant with the singer Pharrell Williams. According to what he told the publication Food & Wine, together they decided that Miami was the ideal place to open this place: “The culture reminds me of my home,” says the Puerto Rican musician. “Miami is a city where I can relax. I love going out to eat, looking at the ocean – it’s a great city.”
The steakhouse-style restaurant has a capacity for 185 people, divided into an indoor and outdoor dining room, a private room and an Omakase bar for six people. The space has been designed by the New York studio Rockwell Group and has a very luxurious decoration, with curtains with beads dyed in gold and others in velvet. The lighting is intimate and the walls are covered in fine fabrics with various oriental-inspired prints.
The Gekkō (‘moonlight’) menu fuses the traditional and the modern of Japanese cuisine. It intends to make the Wagyu meat (with touches of Korean barbecue) and other flame cuts the protagonist. It also has a complete selection of sushi, rice dishes, vegetarian dishes and plant-based meat. Among all, Bad Bunny says he is “obsessed with sushi, the A5 Tomahawk, Wagyu crispy rice and lobster fried rice”. The menu also has a distinguished selection of cocktails, served in glasses as original as the one in the image .
If you are not close to Miami to visit it, do not worry. According to the restaurant’s executive chef, Alex Chi, “the intentions are for Gekkō to go global so that the experience can be enjoyed in every corner of the world.” So we’ll wait.
