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  • Craft beer in Madrid: La Tape and Mikkeller Bar

    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…

  • DiverXO: The Kitchen of the Flying Pigs

    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…

  • Tapas: the best lunch and dinner you can ask for (Part VII)

    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…

  • DSPEAK: a modern take on the classics

    DSPEAK: a modern take on the classics

    After more than two weeks of eating tapas it was finally time to venture out and explore the modern culinary scene of Madrid. With a decent number of traditional tapas under my belt, I felt more than ready to explore what the contemporary iterations of the well-loved classics could look like.

  • Tapas – the best lunch and dinner you can ask for (Part VI)

    Tapas – the best lunch and dinner you can ask for (Part VI)

    I know, I know. Part VI? How many tapas can one person eat? A LOT. That I can tell you from my personal experience. Part VI is very exciting to me because it contains two of my current favourite things in Madrid – one drink and one dish. So bear with me as we embark…

  • Tapas – the best lunch and dinner you can ask for (Part V)

    Tapas – the best lunch and dinner you can ask for (Part V)

    Finding a dish or an ingredient that I have never had before excites me to no end. I get so happy solely by the thought of trying something new. One of these tapas bars managed to elicit some of that wondrous astonishment. Curious? Read on!

  • Tapas – the best lunch and dinner you can ask for (Part IV)

    Tapas – the best lunch and dinner you can ask for (Part IV)

    April Fool’s Day was full of good food and, true to its nature, all sorts of surprises. We will start with the good food and the surprises you can find at the end if you care to learn a little bit more about how our Spanish apartment life is going. ¡Vamanos!

  • Tapas – the best lunch and dinner you can ask for (Part III)

    Tapas – the best lunch and dinner you can ask for (Part III)

    I would love to start this entry with ‘having warmed our legs a little bit in Madrid…’ but there was nothing WARM in Madrid at that point. The temperatures were still as low as below zero at night time! I was told on multiple occasions that the weather was uncharacteristically cold for April, so I…

  • Tapas – the best lunch and dinner you can ask for (Part II)

    Tapas – the best lunch and dinner you can ask for (Part II)

    I am very serious when I say that tapas is the best choice for both lunch and dinner and I DO realise that it is not meant to be eaten as either. There is something whimsical about being able to share a variety of small plates with a few cheeky drinks instead of eating a…

  • Tapas – the best lunch and dinner you can ask for (Part I)

    Tapas – the best lunch and dinner you can ask for (Part I)

    As many of you know, Matas and I have recently moved to Madrid, Spain and we have been eating non-stop since. These are some of the places we have indulged at with the good, the bad, the ugly and the average spelled out for your reading and viewing pleasure. I hope you enjoy.