These days many media have echoed the best restaurant in Madrid recommended by the prestigious newspaper The New York Times, which is none other than Corral de la Morería. With a Michelin star and his recent three suns, the American media places him as essential visit at the level of the Reina Sofía Museum or the Sorolla Museum, but it is not the only place that includes its 36-hour route through the capital.
Because it is evident that from DAP We also join this recommendation. for its cuisine and flamenco experience to which is added its excellent winery, but we are aware that not available to everyone, much less on an express getaway or Easter visit to the capital. Without being one of the most expensive in Madrid, its prices are in line with the level of a gastronomy of its category.
Fortunately, the journalist andrew ferren It also includes in its guide to visit Madrid in three days other places where you can eat and drink more than well, with more reasonable prices, and names that are not so usual, repeated a thousand times in local guides or for who is looking for something different at the most “castizo”.
Where to eat well in Madrid according to The New York Times
Golda Cafe
in full Salesas neighborhood we found this local flashy with bright colors in which eclectic tones predominate in a seventies aesthetic and somewhat minimalist in its furniture, with the cheerful yellow dominating the façade and also the peculiar tiled bar.
Golda is defined as a café, bar and restaurant, a crossroads, a place for meetings and moments, a small haven that is always alive where you can disconnect at any time of the day and recharge your batteries. With a Jewish-Argentinian inspired cuisineits gastronomic offer changes according to the season but always with fresh, healthy and very tasty options, for breakfast, lunch, snack or dinner.
Its menu is divided into brunch-type dishes to take any time, meze and bowls, as well as pastries and handmade sweets. Added to this is the specialty coffee from hello coffee and a good selection of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, including smoothies and natural juices.
Orellana Street, 19.
Frida
Frida belongs to the well-known Grupo Larumba and is one of its most popular spaces. Located in the heart of Chueca, it offers a space fresh, cheerful and welcomingopen to the small square that welcomes it, with large windows and lots of light.
It has a very varied menu focused on the dishes that set the trends for this type of establishment today, also covering breakfast, appetizers, lunch, snacks and dinner. There is a bit of everything, trying to renew the dishes according to the season, with a clear mediterranean approach mixing dishes of Spanish, Italian or French inspiration, plus some nods to Asia and America.
San Gregorio Street, 8.
The Omar
One of the most recent and famous innovations in the capital is this space located in the low of the Thompson Hotel, next to the Gran Vía, the last major development project Nino Redruello and Patxi Zumarragaof the La Ancha Group.
It is usually defined as bistro contemporarywith a London atmosphere, or informal haute cuisine, a place where the visitor seeks level up a bit of its snacks without reaching the prices of the most award-winning restaurants. Its great assets are the location and the names behind it, with a gastronomic offer that is again very wide in terms of hours and variety, and in which the own workshop immersed inside the premises.
The Mountain Dairy
The clean and elegant decoration inspired by the aesthetics of the 50s of this restaurant in Alonso Martínez draws attention as soon as you pass its doors, with careful designer furniture that also reveals the nordic influence and the good taste for contemporary art of its owners.
But the kitchen of this restaurant, where one can pay a small homage without getting the Corral de la Morería ticket, is a redoubt of history, collecting the inheritance of “the montaqueños” who left the Cantabrian valleys to open stables in the capital, and later grocery stores.
His letter is a song of love of Cantabrian cuisine and small producers artisan, leaving the name of its suppliers well marked and with updated and refined traditional recipes, where raw materials and technique come together perfectly. Andrew Ferren sums up La Vaquería Montañesa as a perfect place to dine, with “a candlelit atmosphere and simple but magnificent dishes in the Chamberí neighborhood.”
White Street of Navarra, 8.
kappo
In Madrid there is a wide and varied range of Asian and Oriental cuisine, especially recommended for lovers of Japanese cuisine. In Kappo they also boast of transferring to the capital the “authentic” Japanese cuisinefrom the hands of chef Mario Payán, specialist in the treatment of fish according to traditional Japanese techniques.
It is not a place to eat generic makis and nigiris like someone who devours chips; At Kappo, the space is small and the chef works directly in front of the diner, in an atmosphere more intimate and personal. With a bar for 12 people and a dining room for six more reserved people, Kappo is certainly not the cheapest option, but it will delight anyone looking for that pure Japanese experience of omakase menu.
Breton de los Herreros street, 54.
Hotel URSO
A large five-star boutique hotel, in a beautiful example of noble bourgeois architecture, the URSO stands out for hosting several spaces not only for its guests, with the Casa Felisa restaurant as one of its key points. However, if Ferren includes it among his Madrid recommendations, it is rather because of the lobby bar.
The hotel itself highlights it in its offer of experiences such as “piano evenings”, with performances by Pianist offering live music every afternoon from Monday to Sunday from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. With a careful and extensive menu of drinks and cocktails, they boast having an excellent selection of champagnes for drinks
Calle de Mejía Lequerica, 8.
And if the body wants to keep the party going With a little more cocktails or dancing, you can stop by the exclusive Jack’s Library cocktail bar (Santo Tomé 6, you need to book first), the LulaClub (Gran Vía 54) or the Kluster nightclub -“full of shirtless men”- (Covarrubias 42 ).
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