If you come to Madrid or if you live here, you have to try an
authentic cocido madrileño (stew, a dish made with meat and chickpeas)
and what better way to do it than by blowing our own horns. During
theses days you can do it easily because the region celebrates the I Cocido Madrileño’s Route in thirty restaurants in the Community. Get ready for one of the most succulent stews of gastronomy in Madrid!
No matter what area or municipality of Madrid you are. We suggest
several routes to delight you with this rich and delicious gastronomic
initiative anywhere in the Community which will run until 31st March 2011.
We start at the city centre of Madrid, where you will find
several traditional and classical restaurants to sample this dish of the
cuisine from Madrid that it is also the best tonic after a busy day of
sightseeing.
The tourist bus
leaves us at Puerta del Sol, a square in full swing: people from all over the world, shopping, street musicians, mimes, the Oso and Madroño monument... these great classics have opened our appetite. Near here we cen try the stew in a classical restaurant: Lhardy, one of the participating restaurants in this route. For 35.50 EUR you can taste this delicious dish.
Near the Royal Palace, Sabatini Gardens and the Teatro Real, we can also enjoy a stew at La Bola (19.50 EUR) or the Café de la Ópera (17 EUR).
If the Habsburg's Madrid and Plaza Mayor (Main Square) are your destinations before you continue with your path, approach the restaurant Los Galayos, where you can enjoy a full stew for 18 EUR.
At La Parpusa de Moratín
is going to offer you for 13 EUR a rich stew soup with chickpeas,
vegetables and meat. This stew will provide the energy needed to
continue kicking the Letras district, after a morning admiring the temporary exhibitions at the most important museums in Madrid: the Prado, Thyssen and Reina Sofía. Choose your style!
If you are preparing for the Carnival (March 5th) and you're close to La Latina to buy the coolest costume of the year you will not miss this gastronomic experience. Nearby is Malacatín, where for 19 EUR you can taste a traditional Madrid stew.
And if you're in the Golden Mile in the Salamanca district taking advantage of the last days of the sales you can enjoy an authentic stew at Casa Carola
for 29 EUR. This includes a glass of champagne, appetizers and
dessert to recover from the long day of shopping in the morning and
continue through the afternoon!
After visiting the Santiago Bernabéu you can have a rest in one of the restaurants located in the north of the capital, and that offer a tasteful stew from Madrid: La Casuca (15 EUR) or the Asador Madrileño
(19.44), both of them near the football stadium.
martes, 3 de diciembre de 2013
Madrid, tapas and stars
Tasty, plentiful, elaborate, traditional, cutting-edge,
authentic, sophisticated… Seven adjectives for the seven stars displayed
by the gastronomic flag the Community of Madrid raises to welcome you
when you sit at the table. It is a table where the designer cuisine
coexists with the stoves’ experience matching perfectly the past with
the innovation.
Tapas. Maybe it is the unique Spanish word that you know or maybe it is for you the most famous but one thing is clear…all the people that come to Madrid want to taste a tapa. Cheese, ham, patatas bravas (potatoes in a spicy sauce), calamares a la romana (fried calamars), anchovies, olives or callos madrileños (Madrid typical sticky casserole of veal tripe and cheeks), are some tapas castizas that you can eat drinking a caña (beer), a wine or a vermouth. Where?
You can eat tapas in every Madrilenian bar, but there are special zones as, for instance, La Latina, where at the Bonanno or the Almendro you will taste all these delicacies that have made the Spanish cuisine famous all over the world.
Walking towards Sol, you will find the San Miguel Market, where cheese, wine, codfish and cold meat coexist with the most cutting-edge tapas in the only iron market of the capital. The best place to taste the famous squid sandwich is the Mayor Square.
In the Puerta del Sol, La Alhambra and the Casa Labra are some charming places where you can delight the palate, while in Huertas you will discover the ancient Madrilenians flavours and the modern and creative face of the castiza cuisine at the Lateral, in the Santa Ana Square. If you are in Lavapiés, you can stop at the Económico or at the Aloque to get one's strength back in a pure Iberian style.
Cocido (stew with meat and chickpeas), callos, Spanish omelette, Madrid red bream and codfish, gallinejas and entresijos (giblets) are some of the most typical examples of the Madrid gastronomy that you can taste at the ancient taverns or restaurants that nowadays have become in important and recognized places to eat and drink and enjoy your visit in Madrid.
Like this, you can't leave Madrid without taste the Madrilenian stew of La Bola and, during the cold days of the winter, to stop at Lhardy to have a hot clear soup is a good idea. You can’t say you have been in Madrid if you don’t have tasted the scrambled eggs (Huevos estrellados Lucio) of Casa Lucio and Casa Botín, the oldest restaurant in the world prepares, since 1725, one of the best roasted suckling pig and lamb.
A Michelin Star is for a cooker the same as an Oscar is for an actor. And in the Community of Madrid we have twelve restaurants with Star. Nine of them are located in the capital; we find the other three in different municipalities.
With two Stars the Santceloni of Santi Santamaría, the Terraza del Casino and the Sergi Arola Gastro mix the originality, the innovation and the quality, without forget the tradition. But, in the city centre there are six more restaurants with a Michelin Star. This is the case of the Zalacaín, the Club Allard Diverxo, La Broche, the Ramón Freixa Madrid and the Kabuki Wellington.
Not far from the city, the Coque restaurant, in Humanes, the Casa José, in Aranjuez, and El Cenador, in Moralzarzal, shine thanks to a Michelin Star, this one that they have obtained.
Which restaurant do you recommend us?
Tapas. Maybe it is the unique Spanish word that you know or maybe it is for you the most famous but one thing is clear…all the people that come to Madrid want to taste a tapa. Cheese, ham, patatas bravas (potatoes in a spicy sauce), calamares a la romana (fried calamars), anchovies, olives or callos madrileños (Madrid typical sticky casserole of veal tripe and cheeks), are some tapas castizas that you can eat drinking a caña (beer), a wine or a vermouth. Where?
You can eat tapas in every Madrilenian bar, but there are special zones as, for instance, La Latina, where at the Bonanno or the Almendro you will taste all these delicacies that have made the Spanish cuisine famous all over the world.
Walking towards Sol, you will find the San Miguel Market, where cheese, wine, codfish and cold meat coexist with the most cutting-edge tapas in the only iron market of the capital. The best place to taste the famous squid sandwich is the Mayor Square.
In the Puerta del Sol, La Alhambra and the Casa Labra are some charming places where you can delight the palate, while in Huertas you will discover the ancient Madrilenians flavours and the modern and creative face of the castiza cuisine at the Lateral, in the Santa Ana Square. If you are in Lavapiés, you can stop at the Económico or at the Aloque to get one's strength back in a pure Iberian style.
Cocido (stew with meat and chickpeas), callos, Spanish omelette, Madrid red bream and codfish, gallinejas and entresijos (giblets) are some of the most typical examples of the Madrid gastronomy that you can taste at the ancient taverns or restaurants that nowadays have become in important and recognized places to eat and drink and enjoy your visit in Madrid.
Like this, you can't leave Madrid without taste the Madrilenian stew of La Bola and, during the cold days of the winter, to stop at Lhardy to have a hot clear soup is a good idea. You can’t say you have been in Madrid if you don’t have tasted the scrambled eggs (Huevos estrellados Lucio) of Casa Lucio and Casa Botín, the oldest restaurant in the world prepares, since 1725, one of the best roasted suckling pig and lamb.
A Michelin Star is for a cooker the same as an Oscar is for an actor. And in the Community of Madrid we have twelve restaurants with Star. Nine of them are located in the capital; we find the other three in different municipalities.
With two Stars the Santceloni of Santi Santamaría, the Terraza del Casino and the Sergi Arola Gastro mix the originality, the innovation and the quality, without forget the tradition. But, in the city centre there are six more restaurants with a Michelin Star. This is the case of the Zalacaín, the Club Allard Diverxo, La Broche, the Ramón Freixa Madrid and the Kabuki Wellington.
Not far from the city, the Coque restaurant, in Humanes, the Casa José, in Aranjuez, and El Cenador, in Moralzarzal, shine thanks to a Michelin Star, this one that they have obtained.
Which restaurant do you recommend us?
Alcalá de Henares, the city of the knowledge
As the sun is raising, the storks wake up and, looking majestic
from the towers of the city, contemplate how a new day starts in Alcalá
de Henares, the city where Miguel de Cervantes was born. Each corner of
Alcalá smells History and tastes like its rich cuisine.
When you arrive to Alcalá de Henares you will visit the most important monuments of the city and, of course, you should go to the Alcalá University. Its cloisters and the main hall, which each 23th of April hosts the Cervantes Award, present a wide range of decorative elements. So, you are strolling by the corridors that once Quevedo, Lope de Vega or Calderón de la Barca went round.
It was born in the 17th century and we aren’t speaking about the University, but about the Mayor Street. During the years it has suffered some changes, but it still at the same place acting like the most important shopping area of the city. Flanked by numerous buildings, some of them are so important that you can’t skip them. For instance, the number 4 of the Imagen Street hosts the house where Cervantes was born in 1547 and where he enjoyed his childhood.
Very important is to taste the Alcalá de Henares’s gastronomy: garlic soup, roasted lamb, fresh vegetables and, without forget, the sweet things as rosquillas (donuts), caramel-coated almonds or cakes.
Before to leave the city, you should contemplate the storks. Alcalá de Henares has the biggest concentration of these animals in the Community of Madrid. From December to August they stay in the municipality and they give their chicks birth.
When you arrive to Alcalá de Henares you will visit the most important monuments of the city and, of course, you should go to the Alcalá University. Its cloisters and the main hall, which each 23th of April hosts the Cervantes Award, present a wide range of decorative elements. So, you are strolling by the corridors that once Quevedo, Lope de Vega or Calderón de la Barca went round.
It was born in the 17th century and we aren’t speaking about the University, but about the Mayor Street. During the years it has suffered some changes, but it still at the same place acting like the most important shopping area of the city. Flanked by numerous buildings, some of them are so important that you can’t skip them. For instance, the number 4 of the Imagen Street hosts the house where Cervantes was born in 1547 and where he enjoyed his childhood.
Very important is to taste the Alcalá de Henares’s gastronomy: garlic soup, roasted lamb, fresh vegetables and, without forget, the sweet things as rosquillas (donuts), caramel-coated almonds or cakes.
Before to leave the city, you should contemplate the storks. Alcalá de Henares has the biggest concentration of these animals in the Community of Madrid. From December to August they stay in the municipality and they give their chicks birth.
Aranjuez, each corner hides a secret
It is famous because of its Royal Palace, its gardens, its
historic avenues, its bonds with the Kings and Queens, its asparagus
and, of course, its strawberries. Stated Paisaje Cultural Patrimonio de
la Humanidad by the UNESCO in 2001, you know when you begin your visit
to the Real Sitio and Villa of Aranjuez, but never when you end up it,
because of the amount of secret places that you will find in its
streets.
Leaving her home, a young woman covers a corridor and says hello to
one of her neighbours. After closing the doorway, she goes past a family
that looks very concentrated a map. None of them would be able to
discover that if they cross this gate, they will find an old courtyard, where centuries ago, the women did the houseworks while they talked in the patio, center of the local life.
They turn a map over, trying to decide what to visit. They don’t know what to do: maybe it would be a good idea to go to the Constitución Square, where the Town Hall and the Abastos Market are located. Other choice is to visit the Bullring, which inaugurated in 1797 by Carlos IV, is one of the few bullrings of the 18th century that exists nowadays.
Meanwhile, a group of friends arrives at the Aranjuez's Royal Palace. Stopped in front of the Armas Square, these guys look at the statues of Felipe II, Felipe V and Fernando VI, located on the palace’s roof.
Majestic, impressive, superb, stately… many are the adjectives that could be used to describe the building that they are contemplating at this moment. More than 200 years, since the King Felipe II ordered the architect Herrera to start the works until Sabatini ended up it during the reign of Carlos III, were required to build it.
They haven’t words not only to describe what they are seeing, but also to speak about the Porcelanas Room or the Espejos Hall. Suddenly, when they look out of the window, the group of friends discovers a couple strolling in the Parterre Garden toward the bridge which gives access to the Isla Garden.
In front of them, surrounded by the Tajo River, they have it, the Isla Garden. Now, they have the possibility of getting lost among its trees and to take pictures of its fountains and small squares.
Later, a family, without the map, takes a strawberry with cream millefeuille, a chocolate panaccotta and a tiramisu cake while the children feed the ducks. A group of friends, which comes from the Royal Palace, looks a menu where they can taste crepes of asparagus with cheese or strawberry with chocolate croquettes. A couple, far from the Isla Garden, observes how a young woman, far from her home, serves them goat cheese with caramelized onion and a veal steak with French fries.
Everything hosted by the Tapa y Mantel restaurant, located on the banks of the Tajo River, near the Embocador dam. The calm and the comfort of this restaurant, turn Tapa y Mantel into an ideal place to get one’s strength back after a hard day discovering Aranjuez.
Leaving her home, a young woman covers a corridor and says hello to
one of her neighbours. After closing the doorway, she goes past a family
that looks very concentrated a map. None of them would be able to
discover that if they cross this gate, they will find an old courtyard, where centuries ago, the women did the houseworks while they talked in the patio, center of the local life. They turn a map over, trying to decide what to visit. They don’t know what to do: maybe it would be a good idea to go to the Constitución Square, where the Town Hall and the Abastos Market are located. Other choice is to visit the Bullring, which inaugurated in 1797 by Carlos IV, is one of the few bullrings of the 18th century that exists nowadays.
Meanwhile, a group of friends arrives at the Aranjuez's Royal Palace. Stopped in front of the Armas Square, these guys look at the statues of Felipe II, Felipe V and Fernando VI, located on the palace’s roof.
Majestic, impressive, superb, stately… many are the adjectives that could be used to describe the building that they are contemplating at this moment. More than 200 years, since the King Felipe II ordered the architect Herrera to start the works until Sabatini ended up it during the reign of Carlos III, were required to build it.
They haven’t words not only to describe what they are seeing, but also to speak about the Porcelanas Room or the Espejos Hall. Suddenly, when they look out of the window, the group of friends discovers a couple strolling in the Parterre Garden toward the bridge which gives access to the Isla Garden.
In front of them, surrounded by the Tajo River, they have it, the Isla Garden. Now, they have the possibility of getting lost among its trees and to take pictures of its fountains and small squares.
Later, a family, without the map, takes a strawberry with cream millefeuille, a chocolate panaccotta and a tiramisu cake while the children feed the ducks. A group of friends, which comes from the Royal Palace, looks a menu where they can taste crepes of asparagus with cheese or strawberry with chocolate croquettes. A couple, far from the Isla Garden, observes how a young woman, far from her home, serves them goat cheese with caramelized onion and a veal steak with French fries.
Everything hosted by the Tapa y Mantel restaurant, located on the banks of the Tajo River, near the Embocador dam. The calm and the comfort of this restaurant, turn Tapa y Mantel into an ideal place to get one’s strength back after a hard day discovering Aranjuez.
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