Mother’s Day is coming up and we want to celebrate it as a family properly. If you don’t see yourself cooking a menu yourself, or you simply don’t feel like it, going to a restaurant may be the solution. And Madrid and Barcelona hide corners that are true wonders.
To make your search easier, we suggest eleven options that seem perfect to us to enjoy some time together. Delicious food and a nice and cozy atmosphere, they have it all. There are for all tastes, from the trendy restaurant to eat sushi in the capital, to the place with the most American hamburgers cool from Barcelona, passing through a secret garden next to Retiro. The gift is not the important thing and less if you surprise her with a meal in one of these great places:
Madrid
Zuma Madrid (Paseo de la Castellana, 2)
This restaurant belongs to a multi-award winning group with locations in London, Miami, Aby Dhabi, Las Vegas and Hong Kong, among others. The recently opened space in Madrid has already become the place to be and is an 800-square-meter marvel that uses ceramic tiles that fuse Japanese and Spanish culture.
Its cuisine stems from the informal and well-known Japanese izakaya concept, reflecting a relaxed style of eating and drinking. It includes a main kitchen, a sushi counter and a robata grill that offers modern and sophisticated Japanese cuisine. A vision of traditional Japanese food with a more contemporary vision that includes star dishes such as spicy beef tenderloin with sesame, red chilli and sweet soy, marinated black cod wrapped in hoba leaves or jumbo tiger prawn with yuzu and pepper…
Bengaluru
A trip to India where you can enjoy and taste its authentic food. With a space divided into two rooms and a terrace decorated in great detail in the purest Indian style, it has a wide variety of dishes with different sauces, colors and spices cooked Tandoori style with starters, mains – with lamb, chicken and fish curry – ideal to accompany your aromatic basmati rice. And, for those who want to discover more, they also have a tasting menu.
Star dishes: Chicken Samosas and Peshwari Naan
Ginkgo Garden Restaurant (Gil de Santivañes Street, 6)
Located at number 6 Gil de Santivañes street, next to the mythical Serrano street and the emblematic Puerta de Alcalá, the Ginkgo Garden restaurant is an oasis in the center of Madrid. It has an outdoor garden with a large window and decorated with bright colors and plant decoration details.
Its menu is renewed weekly, as it is the creative laboratory of Ginkgo Restaurantes and its proposals can be tasted and each of them qualified with the possibility of including them permanently in the menu. It combines Spanish and Asian cuisine, highlighting some of its tapas such as the Chicken Gyozas with sweet chili sauce or the Smoked Eel Muffin with Foie. Among its main dishes, its exquisite wok-sautéed baby squid with small vegetables, the Galician cow tenderloin tataki in a sesame crust or the oxtail and foie terrine with vegetable chips stand out.
It includes a sushi and cocktail menu and an agenda of live music that enlivens every afternoon from Thursday to Sunday with DJ Session House, Techno, Greatest Hits or British Invasion.
La Lluna Restaurant (Recoletos Street, 13)
An international cuisine restaurant in an atmosphere inspired by the 1920s in New York. A space created with great care for a single purpose: it is a space designed for you to enjoy food, drink and, above all, company. Its wagyu beef carpaccio, pesto, parmesan and pistachio ice cream stand out, as well as the octopus with lime aioli and truffled mashed potato and the false puntalette risotto with cheeks, boletus and asparagus.
They also have a cocktail menu.
Running Sushi in Akihabara (1-3 Princess Street)
An immersive experience in one of the most popular neighborhoods in Tokyo, the epicenter of Japanese pop culture. Customers must get on the Tokyo subway to get to their table. After getting off the car at the announcement of the megaphone, they are told that they have reached their destination and they find the typical newsstand with authentic Japanese magazines as a reception where they are welcomed.
Food is served using the kaitenzsushi system where Asian dishes circulate on revolving belts.
Martinique (Pinar Street, 6)
This restaurant will amaze all mothers. It is presented as a space for design and architecture in which, through gastronomy and mixology, you can travel around the world.
The creations of its chef Marcello Salaris have influences from Japan, Mexico, Morocco and his native Sardinia, linked perfectly with the national product and achieving creations that stand out for their delicacy. From the outside, its facade invites you to enter a universe of nature.
Its menu highlights dishes such as Eggplant Parmesan Italian-Japanese fusion; Grilled cod served with potato stew, mushrooms, truffle, onion consommé and marrow; and in the sweet Citrus part, a false tangerine with yogurt and orange compote, kumquat, Campari foam and blood orange.
Taiga Restaurant Madrid (Conde de Peñalver Street, 42)
A restaurant designed by the MRGO architecture studio (Designers of the LALALA group, among others). A space with a large terrace with complete enclosure and two floors that allows for a more informal tapas atmosphere downstairs and a quieter dinner, also with music, upstairs.
Its Mediterranean menu is based on quality products that provide flavour, happiness and enjoyment. The tempura prawn popcorn, the Idiazabal cheese fritters and the beef sirloin cubes with padrón peppers stand out.
The Mariterranea (Calle Alcalá, 90)
The restaurant with a Mediterranean flavor that prepares some of the best rice dishes in Madrid. After the success of his first restaurant on the island of Formentera, he brings his rice dishes and paellas with denomination of origin to the capital. Its founders are Valencian and use rice from their own cultivation cooked with a broth with a secret recipe, the result of generations of rice experts.
In its menu you will find both traditional rice dishes (recipes from our “Yaya Pilar”) as well as the most daring and avant-garde recipes.
Barcelona
Durango Diner (Carrer d’Aribau, 18)
A version of the popular North American desert restaurant in northern Mexico where the waitresses are dressed in pink and serve black coffee. A place open every day, from morning to dawn, where you can eat and drink at all hours that goes beyond the typical hamburger restaurant.
In his menu, all the American icons: breakfasts of eggs with bacon and beans, duck tacos on rye whiskey, fried oyster sandwich, a creamy bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich, alligator hot-dog…
A priori (Carrer de la Granada del Penedès, 19)
With two floors decorated in a 1960s style, this restaurant aims to convey the essence of traditional and seasonal cuisine. The options vary from time to time and are simple and traditional. The cigala carpaccio with truffle roe, tobiko and wasabi, the old cow tataki with café de Paris sauce and the grilled squid stuffed with sobrassada stand out.
Gala Restaurant (Provença Street, 286)
We end with the Barcelona hotspot that has become famous for its merry-go-round, hidden dance hall, and nose-shaped fountain. A surreal place with Mediterranean cuisine where you can start the day enjoying quality traditional Catalan dishes and finish with a tarot session.
Among the dishes, their nona macaroni, their Maresme peas with black sausage, their stews, their fricandó croquette and their open omelette with artichokes and black truffle have become famous.
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