This is how everyone starts the year.
Christmas Eve, Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, Kings... Any of the great moments of Christmas can be days of banquets without the need to spend them in the kitchen "burning your snout" (my grandmother said) so that later the varied appetizers and the turkey fly. More and more restaurants offer special menus to celebrate in style.
HOTEL HESPERIA MADRID _(Paseo de la Castellana, 57) _
In the restaurant The Apple, the chef Stephen Gonzalez has created a special menu for these holidays following the Japanese philosophy behind the word Ikigai. It means “the reason to live” and each of us has one, and through balanced and avant-garde dinner menus, it hopes to help us find it in this new year. With dishes as accomplished as the red tuna cococha or the matcha tea, yogurt and white chocolate dessert. On Christmas Eve the price will be €180 and on New Year's Eve it will be €295. There are also brunch menus for Christmas, New Year and Three Kings Day (€69).
In the other hotel restaurant, Sanceloni, with two Michelin stars, Oscar Velasco will wait to reveal it a few days before the end of the year.
Say goodbye to the year sweetly.
NEW YEAR'S EVE WITH CHEF JAVIER ARANDA
In both La Cabra and Gaytán, the two restaurants in the Michelin star Javier Aranda, They will have a **tasting menu (€270)** available for the last night of the year designed by him. It includes a variety of snacks from smoked cheese mochis or chicken mini-cannelloni, and as main dishes it starts with caviar, eels, red mullet and ends with suckling lamb.
SANTO MAURO HOTEL _(Zurbano Street, 36) _
The most elegant Christmas is celebrated in this palace hotel in Madrid where they have proposals for each date indicated. In Good night This year's menu (Price: €210 + VAT) includes sea bass ceviche and capon stuffed with lobster. In New Years Eve, the menu (€330 + VAT) is longer, as the evening demands, and after the appetizers and entrees, it includes a delicious carpaccio of carabinero, turbot and suckling lamb tenderloin. And to celebrate the year, a tribute to the sweet Puerta del Sol. They also start 2018 with energy and repeat their already popular New Years brunch (€110) to start 2017 loaded with churros from San Ginés, and five first and second options, such as Iberian ham and brie cheese bagel or the black angus and boletus buger.
An elegant Christmas.
** HOTEL INDIGO and CAT CANALLA** _(Calle de Silva, 6) _
Dinner and party in the heights to celebrate the new year. The restaurant of this central hotel in Madrid has prepared a special menu for **New Year's Eve (€150)** that includes scallops au gratin or bluefin tuna tartar, ends with the obligatory grapes and toast, and if you want to continue celebrating for 50 € more prior reservation you can join the party on its rooftop, in The Sky Lounge.
MUÑAGORRI _(C/ Padilla, 56) _
What if we wanted to have lunch and dinner at home but a high-quality menu? The answer is Muñagorri, this gastro bar run by Pedro Muñagorri has prepared some traditional Basque cuisine for you to you can take home on the dates indicated. They can be ordered from December 1 to January 10 and include recipes such as the traditional Donostiarra-style fish soup (€10/serving), spider crab salad (€15/tub), squid in ink (€15/serving) or beef cheek (€15/portion) . You only need to order them a day before and they are collected at the premises.
First class soup, at home.
ORCHESTRA _(Goya Street, 5-7) _
The proposal for the end of the year is a journey through time accompanied by music and shows from different eras to liven up the menu prepared by Ricard Camarena for Scoundrel Bistro (€290) or those created for The moat (€170) and The backyard (€150) by the executive chef of Platea Henry Diaz.
COMMERCIAL COFFEE _(Bilbao Roundabout, 7) _
One of the great gastronomic openings of this 2017 in Madrid wants to say goodbye in style. Chef Pepe Roch has prepared a special menu for New Year's Eve with starters to share (oyster, sautéed shrimp, spider crab croquette) and individual mains (sirloin and sea bass) plus wines and desserts (€110). And, of course, the final cotillion.
Show and gastronomy.
SUPER COOL _(C/ Manuela Malasaña, 11) _
Superchulo is not a restaurant, it is a lifestyle that, moreover, has fit very well in Madri in its half year of life. That's why they celebrate the next one to recharge energy with a menu plus wine pairing plus open bar (from 12 at night to 1.30). A menu different, healthy and organic from the kale chips as a starter to their smoked watermelon tartar with seaweed caviar (for €90).
SEAFOOD CIRCLE _(C/ Oliva de Plasencia, 1) _
A Christmas without seafood is like bread without salt, Grandma would say. And this phrase is not only applied to Galicia, but also to Madrid. And this seafood restaurant with a more than fair price has two special menus for Christmas, New Year's Eve and Three Kings' Day. For €45 you enjoy the white shrimp and octopus from it; Y for €50 It includes the striped shrimp and the hake omelette. In addition, they have special menus for children.
A Christmas without seafood...
RUBAIYAT _(C/ Juan Ramón Jiménez, 37) _
the mythical restaurant Brazilian de Madrid has inaugurated decoration this season and is a refuge from the cold with its feijoadas, but it also has a special proposal for New Year's Eve. **A menu (€165)** with a welcome cocktail and four dishes from pumpkin cream with scallops to sirloin with jabugo sauce, passing through two marine dishes: hake and lobster. Of course, it includes sweet dessert and midnight grapes with a Moët Chandon toast and even party favors!
Lobster with parmentier.
THE 38 of LARUMBE _(Paseo de la Castellana, 38) _
New Year's Eve is celebrated here with a varied and long menu, with assorted appetizers (ham, prawns...) and four main dishes from lobster salad, plus fish (hake) and meat (sirloin). all well paired for €165+VAT and with cotillion for €195+VAT.
GIOIA (C/ San Bartolomé, 23)
A christmas there italian in this jewel restaurant in the center of Madrid run by the Piedmontese chef, David Bonato. the menu of Christmas Eve, Christmas and New Year's Eve It is the same one that they offer throughout the month of December for groups, but in those indicated celebrations it includes drinks (€75). Among the dishes, the vitello tonnato or the risotto di Capodanno.
Good Natale!
GRAN MELIÁ FENIX _(Hermosilla Street, 2) _
Here they take Christmas very seriously aesthetically, and to celebrate it the wanda studio has created a very special decoration. In addition, during these dates they change the after work for the After Shopping to recover with a champagne cocktail with chocolate and orange truffle designed by Javier de las Muelas and a Lola Flores tapa. and the new Customs It will be a fundamental place of celebration for its brunches every Saturday and Sunday in three steps; or for its appetizer menu on Christmas Eve; or the traveling menu on New Year's Eve. The latter invites you to end the year touring five continents through different dishes (€325).
Happy 2018!
THE WESTIN PALACE _(Plaza de las Cortes, 7) _
This legendary hotel in Madrid is once again saying goodbye to the year with a grand gala dinner. After Mario Sandoval, Toño Pérez or Dani García, this year it is the turn of another chef with Michelin stars: Francis Paniego he has designed a menu, which 300 people will be able to enjoy at the Westin Palace restaurant, which he has called "The taste of memory". It translates into eight steps with dishes that have been important in his menu and others that, from creativity, return to the flavors of always. The dinner plus party favors and open bar it's €620, and only the cotillion in the 1912 Museum bar, also with an open bar, would be €250.