The beat(nik) goes on: Beatnik Country House now open in Galicia, Spain
Here at Bonhomme, creating hospitality venues that transport our guests to another place is at the heart of everything we do. From our globetrotting food and cocktails and transcendent interiors to music that effortlessly crosses borders, we like to take guests on a journey, even if it’s just in our own backyard. Our venues start with an idea — often from reading, traveling or, more often than not, a combination of both — and from there the story starts to take shape.
With our newest restaurant, Beatnik Country House, we’ve taken that travel mentality on the road. Literally.
Located inside our new destination hotel, Casa Beatnik, which is nestled in Spain’s Rías Baixas wine region, 20 minutes outside of Santiago de Compostela, Beatnik Country House, like its older siblings in Chicago (Beatnik West Town and Beatnik On The River) is named after the bohemian freethinkers of the 1950s and ’60s and celebrates their spirit and artistic legacy.
As a muse and historical touchstone, one beatnik commands our nostalgic reverence: Yves Saint Laurent, a pioneering genius who transformed his era and democratized fashion with timeless and seductive design.
At Beatnik Country House, we are constantly inspired by YSL and the Beatnik generation’s sense of style, aspiration and rebellion to create an exotic escape with progressive, globally inspired food, cocktails and music.
Created by Maison Bonhomme, Beatnik Country House’s aesthetic is driven by a triumphant fusion of three countries close to our heart: Morocco for its audacious combinations of color and passionate artisans, France for its music and artistic confidence and Italy for a healthy dose of polish and panache to sex it all up.
Mirroring Beatnik’s design-through-storytelling aesthetic, Chef Marcos Campos takes guests on a journey without borders, playing with flavors and ingredients from the eastern Mediterranean to North Africa and across the Atlantic to Mexico and South America. Dishes range from salmorejo (an Andalusian cold tomato soup) and conchinita pibil albóndigas to Moroccan pastilla a la Mallorquina.
The wine cellar further the journey with visits through the Iberian Peninsula and the islands of the Atlantic and Mediterranean, featuring producers on our list create that are deeply evocative of the lands and landscapes they farm by combining an experimental craft mentality with a profound respect for the agricultural history of their regions. Cocktails are colorful and resourceful, often finding inspiration in ingredients from the kitchen, creating a harmonious relationship between what’s being served on the plates and in the glasses.
Guests have the option of dining and drinking in one of three distinct spaces: El Salon, La Terraza or La Cabana. El Salon, perhaps our coziest room and our favorite place to enjoy a beverage, was designed around a 300-year-old hearth and a cocktail bar fashioned from a single block of Angolan granite La Terraza, ideal for lazy lunches and dinners, boasts a sunny outdoor patio and a spectacular indoor courtyard with a retractable glass roof, large stone fireplace, wall-to-wall handmade cement tiles by Popham Design and a resident DJ playing vinyl.
Beatnik Country House’s contrasting styles and textures feature international pieces by some of the most important designers of the last 100 years, expanding on the definition of what a restaurant should and could look like.
