Here brunch is washed down with cocktails and it sounds great
Good music is playing, a freshly squeezed orange juice is already waiting on the table and David Bowie, staring from the frame of his photograph, doesn't lose any detail of everything that happens. It is Saturday. It's the Barbara Ann. And he's having brunch.
We'd better say she's premiering brunch. The local classic of Las Salesas neighborhood celebrates three years incorporating novelties to its offer. Already had the music (good music), the cocktails, the approval of that assiduous public to the after-work that go beyond a quick drink at a bar and a menu of those who know that what they like at that time is snacking and sharing. Brunch was missing.
Eggs Benedict with smoked salmon and braised avocado
And what a brunch. The letter is concise: five dishes with two savory and three sweet options. It is not necessary more because once they are tried his eggs Benedict with smoked salmon and braised avocado You are tempted to repeat in a loop, at the same time or on future visits.
Maybe it's because the texture of its hollandaise sauce, for the added flavor that the avocado gives it or for the crispiness of the bread spread with cheese that one does not expect in the initial bite. The chef Pepe Roche, that he had already shown how well he is at getting the point of brunch at Escondite de Villanueva, he has done it again.
In fact, he does it so well that you run the risk of ignoring the Barbara Ann menu, the day-to-day one, and missing tidbits like the oxtail bread bao lacquered with mint and kimchee sauce. Make a hole.
If they don't do it for the menu, at least let it stay for the dessert that may well come in the form of pancakes with vanilla ice cream, strawberries and maple syrup. Who can say no to such an artisanal delight?
Pancakes with vanilla ice cream, strawberries and maple syrup
Nor can you say no to trying any of your cocktails. And it is that the magic that they do with spirits also had to be present in their brunch with five proposals ranging from the matinee , based on rum, coffee, herbal liqueur and egg white until Dewzeta , with whiskey, lime, mint, raspberries, petazeta and soda; going through the Capital Strawberry based on gin, strawberries, basil, lemon, sugar and ginger ale.
WHY GO
Because who wants to wait for Sunday to have brunch when they can do it on Saturday at Barbara Ann? And because brunch is what it is, it doesn't need frills, and Barbara Ann has been able to understand that, with a precise menu in which deciding is easy and getting it right is guaranteed: Eggs Benedict.
EXTRA
Bearing the name of the famous Beach Boys song, the Barbara Ann brunch could not miss the music that is so present in the rest of its proposals. Thus, Every Saturday an artist, guitar in hand or at the piano, performs live songs chosen by popular request from a musical menu (between 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.).
Lacquered oxtail bao bread with mint and kimchee sauce
Address: Calle de Santa Teresa, 8 See map
Telephone: 91.819.55.61 / 91.826.78.91
Schedule: Saturdays from 1:00 p.m.