The story
For years it was Neli G's — the Benavista corner spot beloved by British and Scandinavian regulars on Estepona's New Golden Mile. In September 2025, the Corner family took it over and gave it a new name: Julia Gastro House, after their daughter Julia, who runs it today.
Malin, Swedish chef and restaurateur, led the kitchen through the first year before opening the family's second restaurant, Malinda's Villa Bro, on the Swedish west coast — she now follows the seasons between the two, back in Benavista each autumn, exactly like the Swedish community she cooks for. Ian, born in London, guards the full English breakfast and is repainting the restaurant himself, one wall at a time.
The result is probably the only kitchen on the coast where properly cured gravlax and a proper fry-up share equal billing — open every day, 8:30 to 4, with free parking outside.
