Kuvo
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The Experience

Spanish product, Japanese accents, a warm welcome.

Kuvo is the restaurant Óscar and Pilar opened in Estepona at the end of 2022. This is what to expect when you sit down.

The dining room at Kuvo: paper lanterns, dark tables, velvet chairs and tiled walls, with plants in the foreground

The kitchen

Product first, flavours from further east

The menu starts with the product: Rubia Gallega beef aged for 45 days, wild turbot, scallops, Oscietra caviar. Then it brings in yuzu, miso, kimchi, yakiniku and shichimi, the Japanese seven-spice.

Plates are finished by hand, in small batches, with tweezers when the detail calls for it.

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Óscar placing garnish with tweezers onto a row of dishes in ribbed green glass
Óscar saucing a line of plates on blue-and-white ceramic in the kitchen

The room

Lanterns, tile and dark stone

Paper lanterns hang over dark stone tables and velvet chairs. The walls are clad in scalloped and star-patterned tile, and a window looks through to the kitchen.

It is polished without being formal: a room for lunch that runs long, or a full table at dinner.

A table for two by the kitchen window, under paper lanterns
Guests around a long table at dinner, with Óscar talking to them at the far end

We think of our guests as people invited to a party where we are the hosts. Our job, every day, is to make each moment of it a little better.

Kuvo's house philosophy

The people

Óscar & Pilar

On Instagram they describe Kuvo simply: the place where Pilar and Óscar turn every service into a gastronomic experience, with technique, passion and product at its heart.

Óscar and Pilar started their first business in 2008, after years of travelling: El Toque, a very small tapas bar beside the Iglesia del Carmen. Year by year they refined it into one of Estepona's references, the place with full tables, shared laughter and the patatas bravas, tostas and pinchos that locals and visitors kept coming back for.

El Toque closed in October 2022, and there are still people who call to book a table there. Two months later the couple opened Kuvo on Avenida Andalucía, in a completely different format: a more refined menu, a tasting menu with optional wine pairing, and the same instinct for looking after people.

Pilar and Óscar together in the dining room
Óscar holding up two carabinero prawns in the kitchen
Pilar smiling at the camera in the kitchen, with Óscar giving a thumbs up behind her
Óscar behind a counter of carpaccio plates, ready to serve

The cellar

Chosen for the moment, not only the plate

Every bottle at Kuvo is chosen to go with emotions, not just dishes. The list runs from Champagne and Andalusian sherry by the glass to Ribera del Duero, Rioja and Priorat, as far as a collector's Vega Sicilia Único 2006.

  • Champagne & cavafrom €40
  • Sherry & sweet wine, by the glassfrom €7
  • White winefrom €32
  • Red wineRibera, Rioja, Toro, Priorat & more
  • Alcohol-free wine0,0 Natureo
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Three bottles of Ferrer Bobet 2011 Vinyes Velles from Priorat
A wine glass on a laid table, with the wine wall behind

Menus

Choose your evening

Order from the à la carte menu, or leave it to the kitchen with the thirteen-course tasting menu.

À la carteStarters, mains and desserts, listed in Spanish with English translations. View menu Tasting menuThirteen courses that change through the month. €98, optional wine pairing €55. Discover Wine listChampagne, sherry by the glass, Spanish whites and reds, and alcohol-free wines. View wines

Reservations

A table at Kuvo

Lunch from 13:30 and dinner from 20:00, Thursday to Monday. Book online in a minute, or call us on +34 951 12 97 64.

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