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La Tasquería: truly unique dining experience
La Tasquería is a 1* restaurant headed by Javi Estévez that is famous for offering elevated dishes made from offal and other “discard” meats. This tasting dinner celebrates the last 5 years of his cooking with La Tasquería’s most iconic dishes brought together. Let’s go!
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Indian Aroma: surprisingly good Indian food?!
I would have never thought I will end up in an Indian restaurant in Madrid but here we are. My Indian friend from Singapore was visiting the city and invited me to join her for lunch. Who am I to say no to such an invitation? And you know what: this lunch turned out to…
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StreetXO: I do not even know what to say here
This was bad. This was truly really bad. If DiverXO is a peak of culinary creation, StreetXO is smoking a joint in the back alley behind a dingy dive bar. Honestly, I am taking this one to town. Let’s see how far I go.
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Casa Toni and Juana La Loca: quintessential Madrid tapas
It did not take me long enough to revisit two of my favourite tapas bars in Madrid and my initial thoughts still stand. Casa Toni and Juana La Loca might be two very different establishments but they both offer an excellent opportunity to experience the two ends of the tapas spectrum in Madrid.
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Sala de Despiece: a true gastronomic delight
Running errands brought us to Chamberí and when life brings you to Chamberí you utilise that opportunity to eat delicious food. Sala de Despiece surprised me in more ways than I expected it to. What a culinary joy having lunch at SDD was!
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Monday night in Lavapiés: tapas & cocktails
Semana Santa (Easter Week) has started on 11 April and many places take a little break during this time. Couple that with it being a Monday night and our choices for dining out become limited. So this is the story how we ended up in Lavapiés. Again.
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Toledo: a perfect day trip and then some
It was finally time to leave Madrid and do something fun outside of the city. We decided to visit Toledo as it is one of the closest destinations only 30 minutes away by the train from central Madrid. Toledo is a gorgeous little town and it works so well as a day trip! Did we…
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Craft beer in Madrid: La Tape and Mikkeller Bar
Seems to me that beer, not wine, is the drink of choice in Spain. This country produces and consumes a lot of beer but the craft beer revolution does not seem to have made its way here. We decided to go on a craft beer search and check the situation for ourselves. This is the…
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DiverXO: The Kitchen of the Flying Pigs
This post is not for the faint-hearted. This post is not for those who think that food is not supposed to be expensive. And this post is definitely not meant for those who eat to live. This dinner was an excess par excellence. It was magical. It was indulgent. It was an art, a play…
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Tapas: the best lunch and dinner you can ask for (Part VII)
Ha, and there you were, thinking we had done with tapas already. Not so fast! I will be done with tapas once I taste them all (probably not anytime soon). Up until now we have managed to avoid food disasters but this changes here and now. Read on to see where Ieva’s seal of approval…