To eat well you have to come to the south (of Madrid)!
**We have gotten back on the Madrid metro, line 12 (Metrosur)** to finish the route we started. We wanted to enjoy Fuenlabrada and Mostoles in all its splendor and, in the end, we have returned home with a few extra kilos.
FUENLABRADA, GASTRONOMICLY NOMAD
If there is something that can be disconcerting about Fuenlabrada, it is that if you don't go with someone who knows the city, you are completely lost.
And above all because It has a lot of rich and fun tapas bars, but sometimes you have to move from one area to another. And it is that those from Fuenlabrada are very fond of their neighborhood bars and do not move too much, but we have not followed this rule.
** Salva's corner ** (Mirasierra, 4) is the first of the recommendations. It is the typical neighborhood bar that does not lack pitcher of ice cold beer with a free skewer to accompany.
Since 1993 it has been serving some Huge scrambled eggs in your frying pan and some XXL sandwiches for the most insatiable.
From there they take us to the nearby Bar Cantabria (Nazaret, 26) , very close to the Plaza de las Margaritas, which is like 'el Palentino' in Fuenlabrada, where with three or four tapas you can already be eaten. In fact, they have simply spectacular homemade meatballs.
The 'field frying pan' of El Rincon de Salva
One of the things that the inhabitants of Fuenlabrada like the most is the whole family go to eat from the menu in a restaurant. In Fuenlabrada the offer of restaurants is generous, and we find prices and qualities of all kinds.
Among the most outstanding places, you can find in ** La Pitanza ** (Leganés, 42), very close to Parque de los Estados, a good weekend menu that includes four starters and four seconds to choose from for less than 20 euros and in which there is no lack a veal entrecote or an emperor fillet.
Another option that may seem strange but that we have loved has been ** Sakaba Café Bar ** (Francisco Javier Sauquillo, 31), a restaurant that includes on the menu a whole Japanese recital of tempuras, assorted makis and sashimi along with hamburgers and scrambled eggs. It may seem alien, but the reality is that it is very tasty and is usually full on weekends.
César Muñoz's kitchen awaits you at Goceco
From one extreme we go to the other, exactly to the restaurant I enjoy (Cuzco, 32) which is the obligatory stop that must be made in Fuenlabrada. There is Cesar Munoz who, having passed through the Terrace of the Madrid Casino, rediscovers its concept of creative and modern cuisine based on tradition and good work.
Goceco is to sit down and enjoy, with the concept of tasting menu in 4 steps or menu for those who want to sit down and a bar offer that includes hamburgers from La Finca. Who said that Fuenlabrada did not have cool places?
Goceco, a mandatory stop in Fuenlabrada
CHRONICLE XXL: WELCOME TO MÓSTOLES
**We start the route in the area of Los Rosales in La Barbería ** (Orquídea, 7), which is one of the tapas bars that you have to go to at least once in your life.
Located on the outskirts of the bullring, it could boast of the tallest potato omelette in the entire south zone (at least four fingers high) and a delicious mojo picón. Craft beers, music, pinchitos and one thing that has made us fall in love: tapas with torreznos.
From there, another option is to go to the nearby ** El Perro Flaco ** (Clavel, 27), more visited by those who seek the informality of a menu of toasts and sandwiches, and finish with a few cocktails putting on the world by montera. Why not?
Tacos of old clothes at El Perro Flaco
Through the Móstoles renfe area we also find true gastronomic temples. One of them is ** Mirab el , one of those abundant tapas bars that you find by chance,** you ask for a portion of ear and ten seconds later you are already searching the internet for apartments for rent in that neighborhood of Móstoles.
And if the objective is to mark yourself a full-fledged food porn, you just have to walk a little to the opposite side and enter the ** Mesón Los Picos ** (América, 7), a tribute to the suckling pig and the kid.
This grill is a true meat festival although the cocoxas on the menu do not detract from the seafood. Very tremendous.
The Tres Hermanos snails, one of their specialties
In the surroundings of the Hospital de Móstoles one can also get fancy if you know how to find the place. The seafood lovers They have it clear, their place is the seafood restaurant ** Tres Hermanos ** (Río Tormes, s/n).
This restaurant has one of the most Madrid specialties there is: the snails, getting (in our opinion) to put on Very close to Amadeo's snails and the famous Los Caracoles tavern on Toledo street in Madrid.
Very close from there we find ** La Maltería ** (Río Tormes, 6), the Olympus of the brewers. In this brewery they have seven taps and almost a hundred beers for the most demanding. Their croquettes are all the rage.
And we must mention without a doubt one of the restaurants that has impressed us the most on this route and that we stumbled across almost by chance, **very close to the Andalusian park: V de Vegetta ** (Salcillo, 13).
This restaurant vegetarian with vegan options delights lovers of the veggie world with their spinach fritters or their falafel.
We attest that their vegan burgers are exquisite, a fact that has made them famous in the town. And already about the Beetroot Red Velvet it has made them win heaven directly.
V for Vegetta, the most instagrammable vegetarian in the south of Madrid
AND IF WE GO FURTHER...
We cannot fail to mention the south of Madrid without doing ' honorable mentions' to all those places that metro line 12 does not reach but they have a lot to offer gastronomically.
An example is the town of Wimple, that hides many tapas bars like the + Q Kanas (Pza. De la Fragua, 4), with an XXL tapas menu with which it is easy to get eaten in the third round.
Also in Griñón you can eat meat on the stone and enjoy a pleasant terrace in Grinon's Tavern (Carlos Ruiz, 4) , although, to be fair, it was better in other years.
And of course, it is impossible to close this fantastic tournee without remembering that the 'King of Kings' of the southern area of Madrid was in the town of Humanes.
Yes, we were actually referring to Coque, by the Sandoval brothers, which closed in the summer of 2017 and is still missed in these lands. It would have been the finishing touch to finish this succulent route. We will have to return to the center of Madrid and finish off, right?