Good luck!
Guto Molina he started cooking when he was very little. He cooked in Brazil with his mother, who was Spanish, but they prepared dishes from all over the world. Later he was trained in business management, although he immediately recovered his passion for the kitchen and went through the Le Cordon Bleu school in London. There he became a professional and, back in Brazil, he began to be interested and experiment with healthy ingredients.
Beside Olalla Pineiro, Molina has now created in Madrid Cassava, a restaurant where he puts into practice everything he has learned about healthy kitchen and healthy lifestyle.
The special salads.
“Our concept is to make products with lots of flavor, low fat and using superfoods that provide benefits for your health and well-being”, warns a blackboard on the door of this place with an old wooden facade and glass in the middle of Chamberi neighborhood.
And if you ask the waiters about him or Guto when he leaves the kitchen, he will tell you again. In Mandioca there is room for vegans, vegetarians and carnivores. Plates gluten free and lactose free. Salads, wraps, toast. The only thing you won't find is red meat. But he promises you that you will not miss it in what has been open for just over three months, his star dish: the quinoa burger with mushrooms, cured cheese on top and potato bread with poppy seeds.
"We wanted to prove that you can eat more vegetables without missing red meat," he insists, after serving us one of the dishes that they have now introduced only at dinner (from Thursday to Saturday): balinese curry with marinated chicken, coconut sauce and fresh vegetables, accompanied by basmati rice.
The crepiocas, or crepes made with tapioca flour and stuffed with turkey, cheese or vegetables, they are also served only at dinner, accompanied by salad.
Lounge for any time.
For the day they offer a balanced (and very affordable) menu of the day the one they call: trilogy of the day, which can be a cream (with the fresh vegetables of the day) and the quinoa hamburger; or a chicken stew with two types of salad.
Parfait!
What you have to do is always leave room for dessert: because its chia parfait with seasonal fruits or their low-sugar cakes have already gained fame, a good one, in the area. They can be tried for breakfast or snack too.
WHY GO
So that a fast meal on any given day is something more than a simple procedure. To enjoy even those fast foods any day of the week, taking care of yourself and with flavor. And because they are probably doing the best quinoa burger in Madrid.
ADDITIONAL FEATURES
Its cocktail menu, when the lights go down, the music goes up, the cachaça comes out for a walk. They have developed a menu of Brazilian-inspired drinks to liven up the afterwork (from Thursday to Saturday). On Saturdays, they also have a brunch menu.
IN DATA
Address: San Bernardo Street, 120
Telephone: 911 278 654
Schedule: Monday to Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Thursday and Friday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.; Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and from 9 p.m. to 00 p.m.
Half price: €16-18; menu of the day €10.90