MADRID
Text Bárbara Saborido GOURMET SELECTION
Ideas that leave a
pleasant taste in the
mouth
They say eating is one of life’s greatest pleasures; a theory backed up by a number of restaurants. We visited the capital’s hippest locations for your palatal delight.
Table art “Caoba is a unique, distinct concept designed for those looking for first-class products, service and atmosphere”, explains one of the establishment’s partners, Giancarlo Mammoli.
This signature restaurant, headed by Italian chef Vicenzo Marconi, uses culinary influences from all over the world. Here, guests can savour dishes like Mediterranean sashimi, scallops with crunchy speck, langoustine tartar with migas and ox tail.
Aside from the cuisine, this restaurant, located on Paseo Pintor Rosales, 76, has another peculiar feature: it is made up of a series of rooms reserved for people seeking privacy and the crème de la
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“Evocative” cuisine We begin with an exotic choice: foreign cooking. The fusion cuisine at Nikkei 225 (Paseo de la Castellana, 15) is a consummate luxury, and Luis Arévalo’s blend of Peruvian and Japanese styles is truly unique. The internationally renowned chef admits that, “I like to call my cuisine ‘evocative’, because I play with both my and the diner’s memory banks, and I look to them to take part in this game.” That being said, he suggests: butterfish nigiri with anticucho sauce,
shrimp chupe with an oriental touch or lantern chilli crumb encrusted hamachi sashimi, among other delicacies.