BiBo Málaga Airport: Dani García's Oxtail Burger
BiBo Málaga is airside at the airport, not in the city. Where it is, what it serves and the story of Dani García's oxtail Burger Bull, born in Málaga in 2010.
Photo: Señor Muñoz, CC BY-SA 2.0
Dani García’s BiBo in Málaga is an airport bar: BiBo Dani García Flamenco Bar & Tapas, on floor 1 of the departures area at Málaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP). It is airside. No boarding pass, no table. There is no BiBo in Málaga city. The caterer Áreas runs the outlet under licence, and García, the Marbella-born chef who won a third Michelin star in 2018, created the concept. The burger that ties him to Málaga is older, and to my mind the better story: the Burger Bull, an oxtail burger he first served in a Málaga tapas bar in 2010. Today his group serves it at Leña, his steakhouse.
BiBo at Málaga airport: where it is and how to get in
BiBo Málaga is airside, on floor 1 of the T3 departures area, past security. According to Aena, the airport operator, the outlet is “based on the brasserie concepts of BiBO Madrid and Marbella”, adapted for an airport. So it is a restaurant for people who are already leaving. Picking someone up from arrivals? You cannot eat there.
Terminal 3 at Málaga-Costa del Sol Airport, with the security checkpoint in the foreground. BiBo is past this point, in the airside departures area, so you need a boarding pass (photo from 2010, not of BiBo) (Photo: Raúl Urbina (Pop9000), CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La\_Terminal\_3\_del\_Aeropuerto\_de\_M%C3%A1laga-Costa\_del\_Sol.jpg)
| Practical info | Details |
|---|---|
| Name | BiBo Dani García Flamenco Bar & Tapas |
| Location | Málaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP), Terminal 3, floor 1, departures |
| Access | Passenger-only (airside) zone, boarding pass required |
| Operator | Áreas (Elior Group), under licence |
| Concept | Dani García, after his BiBo brasseries in Marbella and Madrid |
| Average spend | About €45 per person (El Español estimate, December 2022) |
| Opening hours | Not published here: sources disagree, so check the Aena outlet page before you fly |
Map of Málaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP), about 8 km south-west of Málaga city centre. BiBo Dani García Flamenco Bar & Tapas is inside Terminal 3, on floor 1 of departures (Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright)
I left out the opening hours and the phone number on purpose. Aena’s page and a 2022 traveller guide from Hungry Travelers give different hours and different numbers, and neither set holds up for 2026. Aena still listed the outlet when I checked on 29 October 2026; Grupo Dani García’s own site does not mention it. Check Aena’s BiBo page on the day you fly. Airport hours follow the flight schedule anyway.
How BiBo ended up at Málaga airport
BiBo came to the airport through a catering contract. In February 2019 the Moodie Davitt Report said Áreas had won an eight-year contract with Aena for seven food and drink outlets in T3 departures, one of them a BiBo concept by Dani García. The exact opening date is not public in any source I found, only that it came after that contract.
García had a bar at this airport well before that. In September 2013, SSP España opened the Dani García Deli Bar: 150 m², about 60 seats, a “Take on Board” menu to eat on the plane and the “Burger Bull de rabo de toro” on the menu, according to The Gourmet Journal. Did the Deli Bar turn into today’s BiBo, or close on its own? No source says. Listing sites such as Restaurant Guru merge the two names into “BiBo Dani García Delibar”, which proves nothing.
What is on the menu at BiBo Málaga
BiBo Málaga serves Andalusian tapas and BiBo’s brasserie classics. It is not a burger restaurant. In December 2022, El Español picked out three dishes there: the oxtail brioche (brioche de rabo de toro), crispy prawns (langostinos crujientes) and the Burger Bull. In July 2023, Fleet People listed Málaga salchichón tartare, ensaladilla rusa (Spanish potato salad) with a fried egg, yellow ceviche, almadraba tuna tartare, gazpacho and spider crab salmorejo. Read those two lists together and you get a tapas bar that happens to carry a burger, not the reverse.
The Burger Bull has been on the airport menu, but my latest source for that dates from December 2022, and Grupo Dani García’s blog now presents the burger as a Leña dish. If the burger is why you are going, ask at the counter before you order.
Is BiBo worth it before a flight from Málaga?
Yes, if you have an hour airside and want food with a chef’s name behind it, but don’t plan a trip around it. Budget about €45 a head on El Español’s 2022 estimate. That is the price of a proper meal, not a sandwich at the gate, so clear security early. If the oxtail is what you are after, the brioche is the dish the BiBo brand built its name on; the burger is a maybe.
Dani García’s oxtail burger: the Burger Bull
The Burger Bull is Dani García’s oxtail burger, made from rabo de toro, the slow-braised oxtail stew of Córdoba. He created it in 2010 at a tapas bar he ran in Málaga, according to andalucia.com. It started as a bar snack. One of Andalusia’s classic stews, served in a bun.
Rabo de toro, the slow-braised oxtail stew served with straw fries in Córdoba (2016). Dani García debones this stew to make the meat for his Burger Bull (Photo: Draceane, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rabo\_de\_toro,\_C%C3%B3rdoba,\_2016.jpg)
What goes into the oxtail burger
The recipe Directo al Paladar published in November 2019 makes two burgers. It uses:
- 400 g (about 14 oz) of deboned oxtail meat from a Córdoba-style stew
- 80 g (about 3 oz) of mushrooms
- 40 g (about 1.5 oz) of shallot
- Havarti cheese
- Rocket
- Mayonnaise mixed with the reduced stew sauce
- The stew sauce, reduced to a quarter of its volume
The technique is the clever part. Braised oxtail falls apart, so García rolls the cooked meat into a cylinder and chills it until the gelatine in the stew sets it firm. Then he slices it into rounds and sears them on the griddle. You get stew on the inside and a crust on the outside, and the reduced sauce takes the place of ketchup. I rate the idea above most “gourmet” burgers built on a pricier patty, because it starts from a dish Andalusians already know and changes only its shape.
An oxtail mini burger with rocket and sauce on a sesame bun, served in a tapas bar in Ronda, Málaga province, in 2011. Illustrative photo: this is not Dani García’s Burger Bull (Photo: Juanjo Ferres, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamburguesa\_de\_rabo\_de\_toro.jpg)
Where to eat the Burger Bull today
Today the Burger Bull belongs to Leña, García’s wood-fire steakhouse. In July 2024 the group’s blog called it “a hamburger that redefines the concept of gourmet fast food”, served with its “Bull sauce”. Leña opened in Marbella in 2020, then in Madrid in 2021 and Dubai in 2023. At Leña the burger is listed as “La Burger”: chopped in front of the diner, finished with the secret bull sauce and presented as a version of the burger from his three-star restaurant. Directo al Paladar puts the average bill at Leña Marbella at about €75.
From Málaga tapas bars to three Michelin stars
Dani García was born in Marbella, in the province of Málaga, in 1975, and his burger story starts in Málaga’s tapas bars. He ran a chain of them called La Moraga. In mid-2012 his bar on calle Fresca in central Málaga reopened as Manzanilla, ahead of a Manzanilla on Park Avenue South in New York. Andalucia.com reported in July 2012 that Manzanilla Málaga’s menu included the “Burguer-bull: hamburguesa de rabo de toro”.
Don’t go looking for it. When El Español counted García’s seven venues in Málaga province in December 2022, none was in Málaga city: six were in Marbella (Tragabuches, Alelí, Babette, Kemuri, Leña and Lobito de Mar) and the seventh was BiBo at the airport. The calle Fresca bar had evidently gone by then, so I treat it as history, not an address.
Why he gave up three Michelin stars for burgers
García closed his three-star restaurant because he wanted to cook more casual food, burgers included. His restaurant Dani García, at the Puente Romano hotel in Marbella, won its third Michelin star on 21 November 2018. Twenty-two days later he announced it would close and make way for a steakhouse where burgers would be the stars. “I don’t have, nor do I need, any more ego than having won three stars, and now I want to do other things,” he told Directo al Paladar. He said he wanted to create concepts priced at €15 to €20. The restaurant closed in autumn 2019.
It was a brave call, and I think the right one for him. But the prices since have not matched the promise: about €45 at the airport BiBo, about €75 at Leña Marbella. Neither is the €15 to €20 he talked about in 2018. And Michelin came back anyway: Smoked Room in Madrid won two stars at once in the 2022 guide.
The McDonald’s collaboration
Dani García designed signature burgers for McDonald’s Spain in 2015, and the collaboration came back in June 2019. Asked about working with a fast-food giant, he did not apologise: “You have to monetise everything you have done for 25 years.” For the chain’s more recent menu moves, read our coverage of McDonald’s new burgers and chef collaborations in 2026.
BiBo Marbella vs BiBo Málaga airport
BiBo Marbella is the full brasserie flagship. BiBo Málaga is a smaller airside tapas bar built on its concept and run by a caterer.
| BiBo Marbella | BiBo Málaga airport | |
|---|---|---|
| Opened | April 2014, the first BiBo in the world | After Áreas won its Aena contract in 2019 (exact date unconfirmed) |
| Location | Puente Romano hotel, Marbella | Airport T3, floor 1, departures, airside |
| Operator | Grupo Dani García | Áreas, under licence |
| Signature | Oxtail brioche, more than 55,000 served (group figure) | Tapas plus BiBo classics; oxtail brioche and Burger Bull listed in 2022 |
| Who can eat there | Anyone | Passengers with a boarding pass |
The beach in front of the Puente Romano hotel in Marbella, below La Concha mountain (2007). BiBo Marbella, the first BiBo, opened at this hotel in April 2014 and is open to everyone, unlike the airside BiBo at Málaga airport (Photo: CoreForce, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hotel\_Puente\_Romano.jpg)
Timeline: Dani García, Málaga and the oxtail burger
The dated facts in one place, to separate the history from what is open today.
| Year | What happened |
|---|---|
| 1975 | Dani García is born in Marbella, Málaga province |
| 2010 | He creates the Burger Bull oxtail burger at a tapas bar he runs in Málaga |
| 2012 | His calle Fresca tapas bar in Málaga reopens as Manzanilla, with the Burger Bull on the menu |
| 2013 | Dani García Deli Bar (SSP) opens at Málaga airport with the Burger Bull |
| 2014 | Grupo Dani García is founded; BiBo Marbella opens in April |
| 2015 | First signature burgers for McDonald’s Spain |
| 2018 | Third Michelin star on 21 November; closure announced 22 days later |
| 2019 | Áreas wins the Málaga T3 contract that includes BiBo; McDonald’s collaboration returns in June; the three-star restaurant closes in the autumn |
| 2020 | Leña opens in Marbella |
| 2021 | Leña Madrid opens; Smoked Room wins two stars in the 2022 guide (December 2021) |
| 2022 | El Español lists the Burger Bull on the BiBo Málaga airport menu |
| 2023 | Leña Dubai opens |
| 2024 | The group’s blog presents the Burger Bull as a Leña dish |
How I put this guide together
This is a profile, not a review: I have not eaten at the airport outlet, so I gave it no rating. I started from official sources (Aena’s outlet page, Grupo Dani García’s blog, the Áreas contract announcement) and cross-checked them against the Spanish food press (Directo al Paladar, El Español) and andalucia.com for the Málaga history. Every source was checked on 29 October 2026. Where they disagreed, on hours, phone numbers and the airport opening date, I left the fact out. For more burger addresses in the city, see our Málaga burger guide, or browse all our burger restaurant guides by city.
FAQ
Is there a BiBo restaurant in Málaga city?
No. Besides the flagship at the Puente Romano hotel in Marbella, the only BiBo in Málaga province is BiBo Dani García Flamenco Bar & Tapas, airside at Málaga-Costa del Sol Airport.
Can you eat at BiBo Málaga without a boarding pass?
No. It is in the passenger-only zone of the T3 departures area, on floor 1, after security.
What are the opening hours of BiBo at Málaga airport?
Sources disagree, and airport hours depend on flight schedules. Check Aena’s official BiBo outlet page on the day you travel.
What is Dani García’s Burger Bull?
It is an oxtail burger. Meat from a Córdoba-style rabo de toro stew is rolled, chilled, sliced and seared, then served with Havarti, rocket, mushrooms, shallot and a mayonnaise mixed with the reduced stew sauce.
Where can you eat Dani García’s oxtail burger today?
Grupo Dani García now presents it as a Leña dish; Leña has restaurants including Marbella, Madrid and Dubai. It was listed on the BiBo Málaga airport menu in 2022, so ask there before you order.
Why did Dani García close his three-Michelin-star restaurant?
He wanted to cook more casual, affordable food, with burgers at the centre. He announced the closure 22 days after winning his third star in 2018, and the restaurant closed in autumn 2019.
Is Dani García from Málaga?
Yes, from the province. He was born in Marbella, on the Costa del Sol, in 1975.
How much does a meal at BiBo Málaga cost?
El Español estimated an average of about €45 per person in December 2022. No more recent prices are published.
Did Dani García create burgers for McDonald’s?
Yes. He designed signature burgers for McDonald’s Spain in 2015, and the collaboration was re-released in June 2019.
Sources: Aena, BiBo at Málaga-Costa del Sol; Grupo Dani García, BiBo from Marbella to the world; Grupo Dani García, Dani García’s classics; Grupo Dani García, Leña arrives in Barcelona; El Español Málaga (2022); Directo al Paladar, oxtail burger recipe; Directo al Paladar, three-star closure; Directo al Paladar, McDonald’s (2019); Moodie Davitt Report (2019); The Gourmet Journal (2013); Fleet People (2023); andalucia.com, Manzanilla (2012); andalucia.com, Dani Garcia heads to New York; andalucia.com, Dani García; The Staff Canteen; Neo2; El Independiente (2021).
