Bowls and healthy food.
She is from Barcelona, he is from Seville, Rus Anson and Antonio Gavilán spent eight years living in the US. The last three in California, by the sea, between Venice and Santa Monica. There they soaked up its sunny culture and of his always healthy diet and when they returned to Spain and settled in Madrid, although they came thirsty for beers and hungry for tapas, from time to time they wanted to balance and have a day of healthy food away from home. But they found nothing.
IG-friendly design.
This is how an advertising photographer and an engineer specializing in solar energy ended up setting up boule, a place that offers “people the option of eat healthy in a cozy environment, bright and with a close and familiar treatment”. “It is the restaurant where we would like to go to eat every day”, the two say.
That is why they give so much importance to a balanced and very affordable today's menu which includes a cream that changes every day, a bowl of your choice, drink and dessert or coffee for €11.90. But, in addition, for those who go there every day, they have such a variety of breakfast toasties, but served at any time that it is impossible to get bored or repeat yourself. And on Saturdays: brunch!
The exotic bowl.
You could go every day and never eat the same bowl, they offer a variety of six or seven combinations that will change with the seasons and that include a green base, a cereal base (couscous, rice, quinoa, bulgur...), a main or protein (keftas, tofu, tuna tataki, salmon...), a side dish or vegetables, a type of hummus and to finish some toppings (pipes, nuts...).
And where you eat it is also important: the spacious premises are full of light and cozy corners to eat something quick or spend hours.
Breakfast toast all day.
“In Abolea you can savor a simple, colorful, varied, healthy mediterranean food and above all, made with a lot of love”, they explain. They do everything right there: from whole wheat or spelled bread to biscuits and ice cream; they braise the turkey, prepare their own curry, the beef keftas, the different types of hummus… And they only work with small producers, they want to know where everything comes from and to be able to tell their customers about it. The coffee is from Puchero Coffee (another entrepreneurial couple from Valladolid), the vegetables from Huerta de las Flores, the cheeses from Quesería la Cabezuela…
Light and more light.
WHY GO
Because the bowls are great and they are the perfect meal. Because the site (decorated by Rus Anson herself) and your Instagram are going to fall in love at first sight. Because when the cold begins they will do theme days and offer new recipes as attractive as the pouting, pouting! Cooked+ramen!
Bowls to your ball.
ADDITIONAL FEATURES
Are you looking for a place to work quietly? Abolea is also your place, at breakfast, lunch or snack time. Its long tables and all the light that enters through those windows will become your ideal office. But above all, that semi terrace in the sun.
IN DATA
Address: Sandoval Street, 12
Telephone: 91 727 3245
Schedule: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to midnight. Sundays closed. Brunch: Saturdays from 12 noon to 5 p.m.
Half price: €16; menu of the day €11.90; brunch €14.95
www.abolea.com