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Where do you love to eat in Madrid?
We'll be in Madrid for 5 days in April & are looking for some places to eat. The only place we've decided on so far is Botin (the oldest restaurant in the world) We're mostly dining on a budget & not looking for anything too fancy.
Thanks!
Re: Where do you love to eat in Madrid?
Botin is also a favorite spot of mine. It's not Spanish, but I highly recommend Tocororo (Cuban). It's near Plaza Santa Ana (on calle Prado #3), is moderately priced, and has great food (generous portions).
Casa Lucas is also one of my favorite tapas bars (Calle Cava Baja #30).
Maui, November 2011
Botin was not recommended to us by a local that I know for being too touristy. Like, yeah, it's ok, but you can do much better was his recommendation on Botin.
I'd recommend Taberna La Bola (Calle DE LA BOLA Nr. 5 / Phone : 91 547693) instead.
Calle Cava Baja is a great place to do a Tapas crawl - Casa Lucas and Txakolina are must-hits. At Txakolina, try the "house" white Basque wine. We loved it so much here we came back to spend our last night in Madrid in this neighborhood.
Cafe de Oriente is a great place to eat and people watch.
Mercado de San Miguel is a must do, again for tapas or takeaway - we stocked up here for a picnic in El Retiro.
Chocolateria San Gines for chocolate and churros.
La Finca de Susana is affordable and delicious, another guy I know who lives there took us here for lunch. (Calle ARLAB?N, 4 28014 Madrid, Spain
913 69 35 57)
If you are at all interested in bullfighting culture, this bar was fascinating to me:
El Burladero http://en.feria.tv/guide-357_el-burladero.html
Yeah that's right my name's Yauch!
Dont go to Botin. It is a tourist trap. The food is really expensive and not good at all.
The first two, I know have an English menu. The last one if my favorite place here but I dont know if they have a menu in English.
http://www.restauranterincondegoya.es/RestauranteGoya.html
http://www.eltenedor.es/2_restaurante/restaurante_Madrid/restaurante_Midnight_Rose_-_Hotel_ME_Madrid/3637/
http://www.elpedruscodealdealcorvo.com/
I highly recommend Mercado San Miguel for at least one meal (we probably ate there 3 times in 4 days). After that you can do a tapas crawl down Calle Cava Baja - stop in any place that strikes your fancy.
Another good place was on Plaza Santa Ana - on the corner across from the Room Mate Alicia hotel and next to the the Teatro Nacional. I just looked on google maps and I think it was called Vinoteca Barbechera.
We stayed on Calle de Cervantes and there were a lot of good little tapas bars in that area - they seemed to be visited by more locals than tourists and it's where we got free tapas and free glasses of wine. It's a thing in Spain that you're supposed to get a free tapa with every drink purchase but only some places still do that. Anyway, here's where we went:
Los Gatos Cerveceria on Calle de Jesus # 2
On the same block there was a seafood restaurant with Marisco in the name (duh) but I can't find the name on google. It had blue tiles and a long bar with a variety of seafood tapas.
All up and down Calle de Jesus are popular places for tapas.
Finally I made it a point to have churros and chocolate at as many places as I could and while Chocolateria San Gines was good, I liked Chocolat on Calle Santa Maria better. It's in the area of the Calle de Jesus/ Cervantes/ Plaza Santa Ana neighborhood. It's more of a morning / early evening place than a late night place so plan accordingly.