Located halfway between Marbella and Puerto Banis, you’ll likely be wearing your dance shoes as you make the zippy drive to this supper club destination for the rich and famous. Inspired by the palaces of Babylonia, not that anyone knows what they really looked like, this Spanish disco version envisions a palace drawbridge where its gourmet-minded guests enter and along a candlelit stairway into a towering courtyard surrounded in arched woodwork and stone colonnades. It wouldn’t be out of place to see Cleopatra eating grapes and pawing her favorite man soldiers, in lieu of the yacht-bragging billionaire that come with 10-girl procession of models and entourage. Mosaic tile floors surround an illuminated center fountain trickling in fresh orange blossoms under a 100-year old olive tree and outdoor dining room with room for 350, easily booked-solid from June through mid-September as the world’s elite rolls into town.
The Food
The dining option of Marbella’s fabled Olivia Valere nightclub, the town’s hottest nightclub, this supper club minded gourmet eatery is best visited on a late weekend night with an entourage of impeccably dressed pretty people. A perfectly gourmet menu is often snubbed by a model-favored clientele who prefer their meals to be poured by the glass. Their hungry billionaire boyfriends, on the other hand, devour the international menu of pumpkin volutes or raw bar presentations that are better than the average sashimi and sushi menu of recent seasons. Main course is a hefty menu that will have you reeking of garlic and onions on the dance floor following a meal of grilled lamb, sizzling steaks and lobster in presentations that are grander than you’d ever expect.
Last Word
Located in the piano bar and outdoor terrace of Olivia Valere nightclub, this upscale supper club is for the look-at-me summer generation that doesn’t frown on 1000-Euro dinner and 500-Euro bottles of Champagne.
