Vegetable pate with dehydrated onion bread
GREEN BREAKFAST
Can you imagine taking a shot of aloe vera and a shot of wheatgrass to whet your appetite first thing in the morning? Well, take note, because the nutritional properties are many (aloe is a great ally against stomach problems, and wheatgrass reverses premature gray hair, without going any further) and the taste is much more pleasant than you think. Afterwards, a freshly whipped coconut milk -Caribbean style- or a freshly squeezed detox juice , with names that could not be more explicit: a 'healthy skin' with pineapple, apple and ginger, or a defend , with spinach, kale, chorella and chia . The sweet note is provided by the artisan carrot cake, made -of course- with the carrot left over from making the day's detox juices. Can you be healthier than this Rawcoco Green Bar _(General Pardiñas, 21) _?
A very healthy stop
ONLY VEGETABLES TO EAT
Many times the menu of the day says much more about a restaurant than the menu itself, and in cases like the one in Copenhagen _(José Ortega y Gasset, 73) _, everything that can be deduced from it is good. Tasty creams for starters, salads to accompany and generous and healthy seconds without a single animal protein . In this restaurant with a careful Nordic aesthetic -sister of those that this group already has in Valencia-, they are true scholars in vegan R&D&I and work with innovative vegetable microproteins ( quorn ) and textured soybeans. With them they prepare dishes that satisfy even the smallest: nuggets, sausages and burgers that look like it -even on the palate-, but are not. It's so convincing, you may not even realize you've eaten at a vegetarian until after you've left.
Elegance in Copenhagen
GREEN BRUNCH
Elektra _(Santa Engracia, 108) _ is that pro-healthy place that has dared to open in Chamberí , next to Ponzano, the street with the most bars in Madrid; What am I saying, the golden mile of tapas -tapeo tapas, pure-bred omnivore-. Well, right there it has been planted with a super current and modern veggie proposal, so modern that tofu and soy are practically testimonial, and very few miss it in their menu. Warm salad of green beans with cheese, sweet potato cream with yogurt, thai risotto, muhammara (cream of roasted peppers with walnuts) …, they are the sample, very tasty, elaborated and suggestively presented. And the environment, up to par, as it should be in a restaurant careful and sophisticated aesthetics : a sofa with a low table here, a corner with armchairs there, a large dining table to share… as if it were the living room of the house -of a design house-. Brunch is the best way to get closer to their kitchen, because in one go you try a little bit of everything: their homemade muesli, fresh fruit smoothies, creams of the day, vegan brownie or tangerine foot (of tangerine), the must among sweet dishes.
Don't miss Elektra's desserts
RAW VEGAN TRUMP-LOVE FOR DINNER
what of Level Veggie Bistro _(Menéndez Pelayo, 61) _ is on another level. Let's say it's the vegan -and even raw vegan, depending on the dish- that Madrid lacked. Nice, spacious, bright, covered terrace with views of the Retiro and a menu in which there are only vegetable proposals , organic, ecological and healthy even with the environment -wow, they don't cook anything above 41º so as not to alter the properties of the food-. Nothing that one can imagine with the naked eye, but surprising in any case. Veggie roll with carrot slices and crispy mix of vegetables; vegetable pâté of broccoli, dehydrated tomatoes -they have been dried in the sun- and spices ; or the fake rice sushi -they do it with cauliflower!- are a good example of their expertise with vegetables. It is another of those new temples where you will not miss meat at any time. That is already taken care of by Fabrizio Gatta and Jùlia Török, the couple of convinced vegans behind it.
chocolate coconut
ORGANIC SHOPPING BASKET
If after so many rich and delicious vegetable proposals you have felt like emulating at home the very Rodrigo of the Street , you have to drop by grocery stores healthies like Kiki's Market Organic Food _(Crossing San Mateo, 4) _. Pasta, legumes, seeds, spices, cookies, cheese, yogurt, milk, chocolate and even sweets, and all of them healthy; fruits and vegetables, very fresh and in season, as it should be and, moreover, of recognized origin. Oh, a vegetarian from the ground floor to the ground floor, where his own restaurant is located . The most anecdotal of all this is that it is located in the same place as before there was a ham dryer . They are the whims of fate.
Kiki Market Organic Food (Travesía de San Mateo, 4)