La Chimenea (The Fireplace)

In a tweet: GREAT. Best grilled steak I've tried in Madrid so far (and I've tried many). The cook is in a holm oak fired grill by the door where you can see the meat. Cheap for its great quality. When crowded you need to make a reservation, and there are two shifts; you have to choose, and they warn you that they may ask you to leave when time for the next has come.

Summary

Concept	Comment
Overall Score	9.2. I would recommend it for business meetings but it's away from Madrid, and in the weekends it's noisy.
Price per Person	30-35€.. Great value for money!
Food Type	Traditional
Adress	Calle de la Sierra, 20, 28440 Guadarrama, Madrid
Web	N/A
Recommended for:	Family, friends, couples, work.. everyone
Date visited	18/04/2014
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Dishes Scores

Name	Score	Comment
Morcilla de Burgos (Blood Sausage -like a Black pudding-, with rice)	8.8	Well fried; high quality; not easy to find it as good.
Croquetas de Chorizo (Chorizo -spicy red sausage- croquette)	9	A must. Although "chorizo" may sound as a too strong flavor for a croquette, its perfect mix with bechamel softens it to a perfect point of tastiness.
Lomo bajo de Choto (Lower part of the loin of a calf)	9	"Choto" is not as red as beef usually is, and therefore its flavor does not "tire"; but its neither as "white" and small as calf usually is. It's a perfect equilibrium. The lower part of the loin has the grease only in one side, making it easier to eat and having less waste than an "entrecotte"-or upper part of the loin-.
Lomo bajo de Buey (Lower part of the loin of an ox/older beef)	8.5	Ox is the common "red" meat. Personally, I get tired of its taste before than "Choto"
Hamburguesa Chimenea ("Home special Burguer)	8.5	High quality beef meat is used and mixed with caramelized onion and goat cheese, giving a really god burguer.

Other Scores

Concept	Score	Comment
Service	9	Really, really friendly (but they know me since long ago). Because of the sifts, sometimes they go a bit fast.
Ambience	7	Apart from the grill by the door, they have a fireplace in the lower floor, that is really nice and cozy. They also have a nice terrace for summer. But apart of these, it's simply decorated. Tables are very close and it's usually a bit noisy as there are families with children.
Quality	9	They have 3 meat providers (or so we've been told), so quality may vary (scoring from 7 to ..11! best meat ever except for Japanese Kobe in Tokyo). Apart from the meat, almost everything is of very high quality; the scrambled eggs and the fishes are their weak point.
Presentation	7	No effort in presentation; very simple.
Menu variety	7.7	They change the menu very rarely, and they should have more variety for the non-meat eaters