El Paraguas (The Umbrella)

In a tweet: One of the best restaurants in Madrid. Excellent quality, atmosphere, service, presentation... In an elegant, sophisticated, luxury place. One of my favourites. Not cheap, but it's really worth every visit.

Summary

Concept	Comment
Overall Score	9.4
Price per Person	85€. With a 36€ bottle of wine ("Enate Merlot", score: 9), water (3.5€), one beer (3€) and a liquor at the end (6 e).Seems expensive, but it's not! It's so good that it's absolutely worth the price.
Food Type	Asturian
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Gomez

In a tweet: Very good restaurant in an unexpected first floor over a "shabby" bar. Quality is great in most of the dishes. Not cheqp for being in a village nearly 60km from Madrid

Summary

Concept	Comment
Overall Score	8.1.
Price per Person	35€. You'd expect a cheaper price in a restaurant in a little village, but quality has a price
Food Type	Traditional

La Gata Flora (Flora the cat)

In a tweet: If I had to choose an Italian restaurant among the many of them in the area (not to say Madrid)... I wouldn't choose this one.

Summary

Concept	Comment
Overall Score	5.9.
Price per Person	17€. With half a jar of Sangria (7.50€)
Food Type	Italian

L'Albufera

In a tweet: Albufera (a salty laggon near the seashore). Rice specialty restaurant inside a hotel. Great atmosphere, kind of luxurious; rices are notable (B grade), not great.

Summary

Concept	Comment
Overall Score	7.6.
Price per Person	.
Food Type	Rices

Gaudium

In a tweet: Elegant and high quality; but expensive and scarce quantity; only acceptable if you go with some offer (maybe "El Tenedor")

Summary

Concept	Comment
Overall Score	7.8.
Price per Person	27€. Price with offer from El Tenedor (-30% if I remember correctly)
Food Type	Modern

Las noches de Moscú (nights of Moscow)

In a tweet: Dissapointing. Poor, scarce... Expensive for it's quality. Not worthy at all in my opinion

Summary

Concept	Comment
Overall Score	5.5.
Price per Person	18.5€. With a jar of Krushon (9.80€, like a white Sangria).
Food Type	Russian

Hanakura

In a tweet: Average Japanese restaurant in "Plaza de Olavide"; nothing special to remark. I had heard good critics... but I didn't like it too much.

Summary

La caña

In a tweet: High quality food at a really good price. Many waiters that work fast, so no long meal or "table talk". In the weekends you can't make reservations, so there are usually queues.

Summary

Concept	Comment
Overall Score	7.8.
Price per Person	20€. From 15 to 20€ depending on the drinks (20 with 4 beers)
Food Type	Fusion

La Zucca

In a tweet: Small and cozy italian restaurant with good starters, but not so good pizzas. We may try again, but pasta instead of pizza

Summary

Concept	Comment
Overall Score	7.1.
Price per Person	20€. With 2 bottles of Lambrusco (9.80&euro each)
Food Type	Italian

Pecado Carnal Covarrubias (Carnal Sin)

In a tweet: Modern, neat premises. Specialty in burgers; supposedly great... but not so good to me! They claim to have Kobe (of course it's impossible).

Summary

Doña 59 (Ms 59)

In a tweet: Cozy, elegant restaurant. good quality, but not exceptional. Nice for families, business, couples... A bit expensive, but you can find offers... Specialty in rices.

Summary

Concept	Comment
Overall Score	7.7.
Price per Person	27€. With offer from "El Tenedor"web. Including beers, and wine, (beverages don't have discounts) and desserts.
Food Type	Rices

Sal Gorda (coarse salt)

In a tweet: Elegant restaurant, friendly staff, good quality materials perfectly cooked and presented, and not too expensive. What else do you need?

Summary

Concept	Comment
Overall Score	7.7.
Price per Person	31 €, including 2 beers, wine (15€) and a liquor. We went with an offer from "eltenedor.com" web. Very good value for money.
Food Type	Traditional

El Txoko

In a tweet: Went for dinner and tried only 2 things. Expected more by its look (cosy from the outside)... A bit expensive for its quality.

Summary

Concept	Comment
Overall Score	6,8. I would give another try.. If there weren't so many other restaurants to try!
Price per Person	30€. Bad value for money
Food Type	Modern

Casa Pello

In a tweet: Good traditional food restaurant in Alberto Alcocer; slightly overpriced. Very suitable for business meetings for its quality, although a bit noisy. Specialty in Cocido

Summary

Concept	Comment
Overall Score	7.8.
Price per Person	40€.
Food Type	Traditional

Introduction. How to use this blog

My name is David, and food is my passion... as it is Madrid, where I was born in 1977 and where I've lived since then, except for a year in Prague (so far). And I love Madrid, Spain, and its food
The purpose of tihs blog is to share my opinion about the Restaurants that I try, mostly in Madrid, but also elsewhere, so it serves as a reference to anyone who likes to eat well.
Why in English? Because there are many pages speaking about restaurants in Spain... in Spanish. And although there many others that are in English, most of them are written by foreigners. And having lived abroad, and having been an expat, I wanted to make things easier to the non-spanish speaking persons when trying to find a restaurant in Madrid.
I'll try to make this blog not only a way to know restaurants, but also food: words commonly used, how to use them and where (and where not), slang, meaning, and hopefully, a bit of history.
Spain is well known for it's tapas, but it's not only Tapas!

How to?

Finally, as a note to the "how to use this blog" part of the title: When speaking about a restaurant, I'll try to make 2 different posts about it: one with a short summary including a score per dish, and a second one with a detailed description of my opinion, tastes, atmosphere, etc.
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