After seeing those on networks restaurant in the United States, where the waiters are rude and mistreat customers, you want to know spaces that are viral for their space and menu. In just five minutes, when you open Instagram or TikTok, you can see which restaurants are most in demand or where it is very difficult to make reservations. Of course, with so much information that you are going to receive, it will be very difficult for you to choose and you will have to look for which dishes catch your eye, or where to take some photos that you will receive hundreds of likes currently.
Villa Capri, Zuma, Bel Mondo or Tepic. These are some of the restaurants that gastronomy experts in networks or influencers go to on a daily basis and are even about to receive an honor roll for their loyal presence. Now it’s your turn to go, especially when the long December weekend arrives and we have more free time to go for lunch or dinner with friends, family, a partner and even alone. Can enjoy an original carbonara plate or one fresh sashimi table and from the day it is essential to resume the routine with vigor and energy.
Forget going to the same old places and go places where the explosion of flavours is insured. In addition, the month of December is the season when we meet everyone and we want to take the opportunity to go out and discover new places. Without forgetting that in the following restaurants that we have introduced in the following list, they have added dishes related to Christmas or New Year’s Eve. Stop celebrating these festive moments at home, and take the opportunity to prepare your New Year’s Eve meal with a menu full of authentic home-cooked Italian dishes.
Last in the 10 restaurants which you will find in the following gallery, we have chosen places where you can take a journey through countries around the world. By the way, if you live in Madrid, you’re lucky to be within a few metro or bus stops, but if you’re visiting, add everything you want to see and eat to your calendar.
Can you imagine sitting in a restaurant, but it’s a bar of your life with homemade and renewed tapas? At Casa Orellana they have everything you like to snack (or eat), in the best environment. If you have already gone you know their famous Russian salad, the gilda, the torreznos or the broken eggs with red tuna tartare, it’s your turn to try a new dish that you have eaten hundreds of times but not like at Casa Orellana. The boiled! Exactly at Casa Orellana Chamartin, this classic recipe is served with everything we need: chickpeas from Segovia, piparras, meat, fresh vegetables or a pringá muffin.
The gastrobar concept is already known to everyone and since a few years the spaces have renewed and conquered this space. Of course, Isa Restaurant & Cocktail Bar is the king, or rather the queen, who conquered every type of palate with its signature cocktails and its signature Japanese-inspired tapas. Like all restaurants, in this space you will find a renewal of the menu, where the choice of dishes becomes more difficult every day. We recommend: Curry lamb bao, nigiri tasting, vegan temaki or crispy whole sea bass.
It has been proven that traditional dishes are loved by both locals and national or foreign tourists. In Makkila, it is famous for its classic yayo (vermouth, gin and soda), fried chicken croquettes, potato omelette skewer or lamb sweetbread bao with mushrooms. In addition to all these dishes, Makkila has prepared a very special Christmas and New Year’s Eve menu. In these menus there will be no lack of their classic and requested dishes, but others will also be added such as a tempura cod fillet, burrata or scallops with Chinese chives.
If you’ve ever wondered where María Pombo and gastronomy tiktokers go to eat, we’ve found it. Martinique is that restaurant where the dishes are beautiful, easily viral on social networks and affordable for every budget. What are your star dishes? Undoubtedly, and the one we’ve seen most on Instagram is the butter brioche with Iberian acorn-fed presa smoked at the moment or the steak tartare taquitos with national veal entrecote.
And the Asian food? Here came Mitiko, a restaurant with one of the most innovative and prepared proposals in Madrid. As in other places, they also prepared a Christmas or New Year’s Eve menu, but we prefer the tasting menu without a doubt. Butterfish nigiri, Toro Balfegó chumaki, Madame Lu gyozas or the famous Pad Thai with rice noodles and micro vegetables with fried shrimps. An explosion of flavors that is not repeated anywhere.
Whether you are visiting Madrid, or you want to go to another side full of avant-garde, you have to go to The Edition. Not only does this hotel have an incredible terrace to have a drink while seeing the best view of Madrid. There are several restaurants in this hotel, but this time we chose one: Oroya. This gastronomic space is a journey through Peru, to feel, see and taste first hand the most mythical dishes of this country. Diego Muñoz is the chef behind his menu. What should you try? Corvina ceviche, ají limo, red onion, leche de tigre, oysters with pickled chalaca and sea grapes, pucusana-style fried squid or vegetarian rice with candied artichokes, sea lettuce and shimeji.
We are sure that you have seen or shared the famous cocktails or containers they have in Rosi La Loca on several occasions. This restaurant, which is one of the most instagrammable, is also the perfect place to enjoy a good lunch or dinner any day of the week, although you have to be quick with your reservation. What should not be missing? Sincerely, their Iberian ham croquettes, the scallops with kimchi mayonnaise, their crazy sangria with cava or the tiramisu.
We can’t say much more about the Salvaje restaurant that you don’t already know. Although, you may not know of a new space that is in the Canalejas Gallery. Yes, as you read, the Salvaje restaurant is located in spaces that house many places where the palate travels to different countries. On this occasion we talk about Salvaje and how Chef Fermín Azkue creates a fusion between the most traditional Japanese dishes and the most exotic ingredients.
If you are tired of the typical Mexican dishes, such as tacos or a burrito with a lot of meaningless ingredients, you have to go to Tepic. Here the Mediterranean cuisine goes much further than what we envision. In this restaurant, thanks to the innovative techniques used, you can enjoy a traditional Mexican meal without forgetting a classic cocktail offer. We are going to recommend that your requests are shrimp aguachile, chicken tinga tostadas, baja california style or sirloin steak tacos.
How many times have you been to Villa Capri & Bel Mondo? I’m sure you’ve been over 20 times this year and that’s normal because their pasta carbonara is a real downfall. Of course when you come back you have to try new dishes they have prepared for the Christmas season. You start with three antipasti (vitello tonnato, baccala fish and chips and gamberi crudo), follow with spaghetti alle vongole and finish with a brownie with nduja cream.
As can happen with gourmet restaurants from other countries, it usually happens with Asian food. Zuma, a restaurant with locations in 20 countries around the world, restored the illusion of this kind of food, where we had already seen it all. At Zuma nothing is the same as before, and Japanese gastronomy returned with force and with the intention of changing this concept. Which dishes are most in demand and what made this site famous? Tomato salad with roasted eggplant, tempura prawns with citrus mayonnaise, spicy tenderloin with sesame or wagyu and truffle tataki.
Fortuny Home Club introduced to the whole world a new concept of Italian, which few people forget because thanks to fresh food we discover a new concept of Italian. Benedetto Ristorante, is the restaurant located on the mythical Fortuny Street in Madrid, which, thanks to its Venetian Gothic style, praises dishes that were old glory, but have resurfaced: traditional Neapolitan gourmet pizzas, sweet parma ham, langoustines flambéed with seafood and citrus cream or risotto al pesto rosso.
Source: Marie Claire
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