Ready to order, pick up and enjoy in the Retiro Park
Not everything goes (and you know it). So if you like the Italian gastronomy , the real one, the good one, and you melt (literally) with a good gorgonzola or a Bologna mortadella, like those that Sofia Loren walked like nobody else; here you have the place to do your shopping, have an aperitif or provide you with take away very pro for your picnics. Is named Base House . He's at the **Retreat**. And it doesn't pretend to be more than it is, a homemade place that sells homemade things.
One step away from the Retreat
Francesco and Angelica they arrived in Madrid seven years ago and here (despite us) they experienced what happens to everyone who comes from a place where eating is a royal affair and leaves their land, they shed tears thinking about the mom's food and that they knew little about the products (or substitutes) from their country that they could find in supermarkets.
Francesco and Angelica
To remedy this, they decided to embark on the adventure of bring themselves all those delicious things that they ate in their homeland , and sell them in a small shop, which was like a "home" for the Italian community in Madrid. Without a roadmap and with a single premise: that they both liked.
This is how you write the (brief) history of Base House , which opened just a year ago, and where it is possible to buy artisan cheeses or sausages from all over Italy , eat some toast with a beer (artisan, which makes a “amico de tutta la vita” by Francesco and Angelica) or a gazzeosa (including a craft cola), and book yourself a good picnic to go to the park in a sybaritic key.
100% Italian product
WHY GO
Cooked ham, nduja calabrese (a delicious sausage from the Calabria area, similar to sobrassada), capicola (salami from the same region), pancetta, speck (ham with a touch of juniper from the Tyrol), Bologna mortadella... are some of the delight that they bring once a week from different suppliers. As to cheeses , also made in small dairies, you can find a verisimo parmigiano reggiano from Vaca Bruna , a roman pecorino and half a dozen others of various cures, made with raw goat's milk from the Alps . And, of course, one fresh burrata , a Buffalo mozzarella and even an unusual smoked mozzarella.
Fresh products for a sandwich without crumbs and with forcefulness
At Casa Base they also sell all kinds of olive oils, accepts (the real ones), pâtés, stone chocolates (with pistachios, hazelnuts, peperoncino...), sauces and pestos and, of course, artisan pastas, Afeltra and Gentile ( the Rolls Royce and the Aston Martin of macaroni and spaghetti, used in haute cuisine restaurants).
To eat on the spot they offer a menu, simple and practical, with more than twenty types of toast and sandwiches, made with a special bread, ciabatta type , which they order to be made in a Madrid wood oven which, as a deference, they do with less crumb "so that the bread is simply a base for everything else."
The battlefield of Casa Base
ADDITIONAL FEATURES
With a little more time you can have an aperitif , served with gaeta (Neapolitan) olives , dried tomatoes and sicilian artichokes ; all accompanied by a wine from Abruzzi or Frascati . You can even do a brunch (or better, pranza ) , weekends. In any of the cases, you have to finish with a coffee. Illy , of course. As in any self-respecting "house".
Don't forget a good brunch (or, rather, 'pranzo')
PRACTICAL DATA
Address: Dr Castelo 8
Telephone: 689,746,604
Schedule: from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.