It is easy to like the beautiful, but it is the simple and the authentic what makes you fall in love.
Thank you Carlos I. for bringing us here.
If you are looking for a good restaurant in Huelva city centre, this is arguably the best choice.
Singularity & Simplicity
Navarran typical food from the village of Azagra…(If Ernest Heminghway would be alife, he would never miss this corner of Madrid).
Menu:
http://lamanducadeazagra.com/la-carta-menu.html
The interior design is arranged by the reknown Spanish architect Francisco Mangado:
Yes, we mean colorful & tasteful.
The delicate platters to share at BACIRA restaurant are small pieces of visual art which could well be a composition for a nice cooking book…the type of dishes which you enjoy to contemplate before eating, talk about before eating, and why not, share by Instagram with friends.
Creative combinations of raw seafood & seaweed (sushi/Mediterranean fusion) in a hidden small restaurant at the Chamberí quarter of Madrid.
Restaurant BACIRA offers a very relaxed & casual atmopshere. Best in the ground-floor; (its basement is not as charming). Waitress really helpful and kind.
Definitely a good choice for a non pretencious dinner or lunch.
BEACHLESS CHIRINGUITO ON THE GOLDEN MILE
Lobito de Mar is an urban chiringuito, a cool beachless beach bar and restaurant. A restaurant from the old school, with a traditional, produce-driven menu. A place where an expert on rice dishes and a barbecued fish specialist are key figures.
The tapas bar is one of the key pieces of the chef’s concept, based on the chef’s happiest memories of childhood, of those Saturdays going to market with his parents to buy fresh seafood, of early mornings playing ball with his father on Pozuelo beach, and the first skewers of barbecued fish that he tasted.
http://www.grupodanigarcia.com
A LANDMARK RESTAURANT
WINDSOR restaurant is a benchmark in contemporary catalan cuisine which celebrates local produce and combines the traditional with the modern, fresh, tasty and healthy ingredients.
The restaurant is located in a landmark restaurant building. An intimate & tranquil space where diners can enjoy a unique and exquisite interior garden.
Here is one of our favourite restaurants in Barcelona: CAN PINEDA
Lonely Planet would have described it as…”AN OFF THE BEATEN RESTAUARANT” but we believe this restaurant might even escape from LONELY PLANET’S eyes….
Worth a Star Michellin (if it was just and only a question of high quality ingredients and preparation).
We stop prolonging our tip, because we prefer to give you a link of a great “OFF THE BEATEN CULINARY SITE” who writes into detail about this lovely family-run restaurant:
OLIVE GASTRO BAR is located in the outskirts of Madrid, direction NW to Valladolid/La Coruna and just 30 minutes drive from the UNESCO’s universal heritage MONASTRY OF SAN LORENZO DEL ESCORIAL, one of the Madrid’s architectural/cultural masteripeces.
Why this restaurant at the outskirts of Madrid centre?
One of the various reasons is beacuse some of the best Tuna is served here, brought fresh from the Tuna spanish Mecca: SAN LÚCAR DE BARRAMEDA/BARBATE region in Andalusia (Please see our tip for BARBATE).
This name: BOCA CHICA & BOCA GRANDE has been spread around Barcelona from mouth to ear (and much more likely from mouth to mouth)…
One of the coolest Bars in capital letters at the Eixample Dret (right across Passeig de Gracia which is the little Champs Elysees of Barcelona).
BOCA GRANDE refers as a ground-floor restaurant which has a very chic design, hipster atmosphere and acceptable BUT AVERAGE food, therefore it is not the protagonist of our tip…
BOCA CHICA instead, is the COCKTAIL LOUNGE BAR just over the stairs from the restaurant.
This place is an eclectic mixture of Africa, Europe’s Belle Époque & New York.
The atmosphere is completely a visual surprise, worth-it a drink or two. It consists of 2 floors & a mini dance area…AND..a peculiar toilette at the basement:
At the toilette often a DJ plays…there is also a piano, small tables for drinks, a mosaic of small mirrors, all in ONLY ONE UNISEX compartment.
Deffinatelly a place to feel lke Jerry Lee Lewis at “The Great Balls Of Fire”…the toilette we mean..
But yes, the Bar above is very fine too…
47 RONIN – Name refers to one of the most well known Samurai Japanese legends.
Japanese vanguard restaurant located in the elegant gastro-street Jorge Juan.
You will be surprised with every bite and specially if you go for the tasting menu with first class product and delicious creations.
Great wine list with more than 200 references.
Thank you Paco and Jose Antonio for a wonderful experience!!!
