Not sure where to eat in Madrid? This Spanish city is home to a variety of dining options, including authentic cafes and restaurants serving Madrid-style boiled meats, soup with meat and vegetables in a pot (“cocido madrileño”), cod and stewed entrails, sliced pieces (abomasum), gazpacho …
Where to eat inexpensively in Madrid?
You can eat inexpensively in establishments with a “free menu” - here, having paid 9-10 euros, you will be offered to taste a salad, first and second courses (drinks are paid for separately). For example, the “All u can eat” cafe works according to this principle - you will be able to taste soup, salad, paella, dessert. If you consider yourself to be a quick bite lover, there are many places in the center where you can get a freshly baked pizza slice or a baguette with jerky and vegetables inside at reasonable prices.
You can have a budget snack by visiting Cerveceria 100 Mantaditos - this chain cafe offers its guests to try more than 100 varieties of mini-bocadillos, which are prepared on the basis of tortilla, chirozo sausage, various cheeses and seafood (the cost of 1 mini-sandwich - 1-1, 5 euros).
Traditional Madrid cuisine at affordable prices can be enjoyed at La Bola tavern, where you can enjoy garlic soup, tripe, meat and chickpea stew.
Where to eat delicious in Madrid?
- Corral de la Moreria: On the menu of this flamenco restaurant you can find ravioli with foie gras and mushroom sauce, Iberian ham, Andalusian gazpacho, tangerine sorbet. It is worth noting that the institution organizes daily evening and night shows of the music and dance genre (flamenco show).
- Tavern "Casa Lucio": This establishment specializes in the preparation of old Castilian cuisine. Here you can try jamon, Spanish hodgepodge, oxtail stew, poultry fricassee.
- Sudestada: This restaurant serves Vietnamese, Thai, Lao, Malay and Argentinean cuisines. If you find it difficult to decide which dish to try, the restaurant staff will offer you a special tasting menu.
- La Baracca: This restaurant specializes in paella. Here you can taste more than 10 types of this traditional Valencian rice dish (the main types of paella are with seafood, meat, spicy, tender, thin, thick).
- Cornucopia: This establishment is a restaurant + an art gallery. Here, in addition to the traditional one, you can enjoy international cuisine (there is an extensive wine list and high quality dishes).
Gastronomic excursions in Madrid
On a gastronomic tour of the city, you will be offered to walk through several tapas bars - here you can try tapas snacks (jamon, tapas nuts, shrimp tapas, olives) and taste different types of wines.
Resting in the capital of Spain, you will never go hungry - the city has many cafes, taverns, as well as restaurants, both inexpensive family-run and expensive, open at 5-star hotels.
Updated: 2020.02.
