Chocolate cuore, a perfect Valentine.
-"Honey I love you".
-"I know".
–“I wasn't telling you, I was telling this cheesecake”.
authentic declarations of love that they will be able to give in the most romantic night of the year if you book a table at one of these restaurants in Madrid that prepare menus and special surprises for lovers… of cooking on Valentine's Day.
Table for two please?
THE PASSWORD
Everything fits. The place: ponzano, that never fails The atmosphere: every corner of this restaurant that has recently opened a new stage is intimate, but its tables in the glassed-in patio attract your attention. The food: in this new stage, The password has also renewed letter and it is very thought to share, perfect for a night of love. Examples of this new gastro offer: the 63º eggs with Extremadura crumbs or the teriyaki tuna loin. The surprise: on the 14th they will receive all the couples with a rose for him or her
THE SPOON
An old acquaintance to meet. After eight years of success in Madrid, this Venezuelan food restaurant has just redecorated the space and included new dishes on its menu. your chef Leo Araujo he wanted her to look more like his recently arrived brother, Apartment. For Valentine's night they have prepared a special menu that includes a welcome cocktail, appetizer (tostón or empanadita), a phosphorera or seafood soup first and a second grill table (picaña, black pudding, chorizo, butifarra, chicken, arepitas). The dessert is called Chocopassion. and close it with a gift from home.
Venezuelan romantic dinner.
THE MALAGE
Since we cannot escape to the south to celebrate love, we do it without leaving Madrid in this Andalusian gastronomy tavern. In fact, for this February 14 they have prepared a special menu called Al sur (€40 per person) and that includes: gazpacho of scallops with butter colorá, eggs with alboronía, sea bass supreme with fennel, retinta loin with Java pepper sauce and cheese flan.
HORCHER
A historic dinner, this is how all dinners are at Horcher, one of the oldest restaurants in Madrid. Sophia Loren or Dalí have passed by its tables, in a classic room, that overlook the Retiro. And now you can also come to this special dinner of the year, on Valentine's Day. For such an important occasion, you have all the infallible dishes like her steak tartare, but Elisabeth Horcher has planned a special menu that includes smoked eel with horseradish sauce, scallops with celeriac purée and black olive cream, lobster ragout with black truffle or the partridge to the press.
The love for a good table with tradition.
MARÍA LUISA'S KITCHEN
15 years serving traditional recipes, real cooking, traditional cooking. And for Valentine's Day, María Luisa proposes a table where couples will have a guest of honor: the black winter truffle. The seasonal product that accompanies the tastiest dishes: free-range eggs with lace and truffle, truffle soup, maresme tear peas with yolk and truffle, pig's trotter stuffed with meat and truffle...
SANDWICH
The usual tavern restaurant. More than 50 years contemplate this place in Chueca and its traditional cuisine. A longevity that inspires lovers. That is why they also have a special menu available for Valentine's dinner and the nights before. (They will serve it from February 7 to 14). It starts with a glass of sparkling muscatel, continues with its croquettes, tasting snacks (prawns, cod foie…) and the main oxtail or hake medallions.
Three is not a crowd if the third is the black truffle.
ROOSTIQ
to accompany you the fire of love and the embers of this place that cooks products from its own meadow in Ávila, from where vegetables and free-range chickens arrive every day. On Valentine's Day they will offer a menu designed to share between two with a table of Iberian acorn-fed sausages and cheeses, torrezno calzone, Roostiq chicken with homemade sauce, wood oven salmon with cherry tomatoes, balsamic and soy; and for dessert, ricotta crêpes baked in a wood-fired oven with banana, honey and pistachios. all well watered a glass of champagne or a Valentine cocktail and icing on the cake a Valentine's shot.
THICK NAPOLETAN
If they are going to give you their heart, let it be a Nutella heart. The most romantic dreams turned into a perfectly shaped pizza. This is what this Neapolitan pizzeria prepares, which already has five establishments in Madrid. And in its five locations, always just as crowded, they will offer this delicacy with Nutella and glazed strawberries on the 14th. It can be dessert or a unique and loving dish.
Melt with love...
** COUNTRY MOM **
Eating healthy and romantic is not at odds. In this ecological corner of Plaza de Olavide, restaurant and catering, they offer a menu full of healthy properties and, incidentally, aphrodisiacs. Like the marinated tomato salad with ginger, spinach, artisan cheese and cranberry and pumpkin seed vinaigrette, where the key ingredients for that night would be ginger and pumpkin seeds. The chocolate brownie with maca powder is also an ad hoc dish for February 14.
THE VELAZQUEZ, 17
Crunchy shot artichoke, foie balls battered in pistachio, Port reduction and caramelized apples; monkfish tacos on mashed cauliflower and chive oil with trisol and sesame tiles and sirloin steak with wine sauce and celeriac puree. And as a climax: cardamom panna cotta with strawberry coulis and champagne. This is the menu that they have prepared in this product restaurant in the Barrio de Salamanca.
Healthy and aphrodisiac, the perfect pairing for a Valentine's dinner.
** INTERCONTINENTAL MADRID **
A spicy valentine this is what they have called the dinner that will be served in the restaurant of this classic hotel in Madrid on the night of February 14. Precisely that week the chefs Gonzalo Vazquez Flores and Ramses Muniz Chavez from the InterContinental Presidente México are doing a residency in the Madrid stoves and to celebrate the occasion with the couples who book that night they will be received with a welcome cocktail of Tequila Altos and **the tasting menu (for €65)** will be a journey of dishes from the Aztec country, such as the shrimp, tomato and adobo pastor taco, the scallop aguachile salad, the decanted pozole with spicy, avocado and green cabbage or the roasted beef rib-eye. Dinner will be harmonized with live boleros and rancheras.
SWEDEN HOUSE
I Heart You Y Luxury & Love. that's what they're called the two menus designed exclusively for Valentine's Day at the NH Collection Madrid Sweden restaurant and which, in addition, can also be ordered on Friday the 15th and Saturday the 16th during dinner hours. First, I Heart You (30€), It includes three courses, with a glass of cava and a fruit fondue for dessert. And Luxe & Love (50€) is a complete seafood . You can also celebrate alone at the bar with the cocktail that your barman has prepared, Chema Insausti, and whom he has called Be My Valentine. Or complete the night sleeping in the hotel from €185.
RUBAIYAT
The most famous Brazilian restaurant in Madrid has prepared a very sweet heart to celebrate lovers who pass through its room on the 14th: a solid chocolate heart that will put the finishing touch to a dinner full of the local's star dishes, from its aging meats to its fish; and that could start with the most carioca drink, the caipirinha.
Solid chocolate heart.
*Report published on February 1, 2018 and updated with the letters and new proposals of January 16, 2019; updated on January 31 with new proposals.