If life gives you lemons...
Just four months ago cousins and a brother-in-law got together in this new adventure, in which Marco, chef by profession, take the reins of the kitchen recovering his childhood recipes.
In the menu -he explains-, the Ligurian recipes (“a land with few of its own but very intense dishes”), but not exclusively. ** Eating here is like taking a tour of all of Italy, ** with the common thread of the nonna's specialties, to which Marco, after passing through kitchens in the United States and Italy, imprints his personal character and adapts to the “tapas” format, to share and try (which in Italy are better known as bocconcini ) .
Arancini
In this delicious mixed bag fit the same some courgette flowers stuffed with battered provolone and ricotta that some sicilian arancini ; a Vitel Tone (one of the best dishes on the menu) and some lemon chicken scaloppine , or some ravioli allo scoglio (stuffed with chopped seafood) or some sorrentini di burrata pomodoro seco and basil. Every week the proposals outside the menu are changed depending on the seasonal products, which They arrive directly from Italy ( including basil , to do as tradition dictates the Genoese pesto ) . The country of the boot is also drunk from start to finish in Limone, strolling glass by glass, through wines from all over its geography, and even in just one, the Memo , which pays homage to 650 years of the unification of Italy, with grapes from all over the country.
sweet focaccia
Ligurian cuisine also comes from what is perhaps Limone's greatest hallmark, its focaccias, Ligurian pizza. It is a bread dough that is crispy above and below and airy inside (very different from Roman or Neapolitan). It is Giorgio, the “maestro focaccero”, who is in charge of making it so, making and unmaking in the oven in sight. Individual focaccias come out of it and are on the table in seven minutes (five in the oven and two to be filled): a true _fast food”_of height. The combinations are very successful: gorgonzola, spun chicken and arugula; San Daniele ham, tomato, mozzarella and lamb's lettuce... but if you have to choose just one, perhaps that would be the Milano type salami and cream cheese with fig jam . With the permission of Nutella, which seriously competes as icing on the cake with tiramisu; but not in its usual form, but in that of fried ravioli with ice cream. Other dolci options are panna cotta with chocolate or cassis and lemon pie. Yes, lemon.
Here you must order a Ligurian pizza, that is, a focaccia
WHY GO
For its focaccias, warm and stuffed with very Italian ingredients.
ADDITIONAL FEATURES
**The terrace (all year round) ** and the Italian cocktails, which can be enjoyed at the bar, with the Lemon Sour (with egg white, lime, mandarin liqueur and cardamom) as a signature.
Inner Lemon
PRACTICAL DATA
Address: Diego de Leon, 42; Madrid
Telephone: 910 52 08 71
Schedule: from 12:00 p.m. to 02:00 a.m. Closed Monday and Sunday only meals.
Half price: 20 / 25 euros pp. approx.
lemon bar
A table for two at Limone