In the hotel lobby, to drink and to go.
If you like to define yourself in any way Oriol Balaguer it is like someone restless, risky, always looking to move forward, to change. "I'm crazy and I really like challenges," he said in TRAVELER two years ago, on the tenth anniversary of his landing in Madrid.
A decade in which his pastry art has settled in the city and occupied positions of favorites. we pilgrimage to the little duchess go for her chocolate palm trees, their butter croissants or their panettone. And, now, luckily, there is a new place where you can find his star pastries and his creative pastry. Is named breakery forks a new corner in the lobby of the Only YOU Hotel Atocha.
This will be the snacks at the Only YOU Hotel Atocha.
“I have always liked challenges. What's more, they motivate me and we would say that I put myself to the test”, the pastry chef tells us. “This has always given me a feeling of well-being, that feeling of adrenaline that challenges give you”.
With a very new york aesthetic (like a container parked in the middle of that lobby), in the Breakery window you can see the famous Balaguer croissants (butter, chocolate, Giandjua), chocolate palm trees, fruit shells or apple custard. Everything under his menu: Freshly baked. Treats available all day, from breakfast to late snacks. Because Breakery is not just a hotel cafe. It is not just a bakery (almost) on the street, it is much more.
in breakery there is a full breakfast menu: dishes of eggs (fried, pan-fried, tortilla, benedictine) with different accompaniments; also healthy options (fruit, yogurt, muesli) and, of course, toasts sweet and salty.
There will also be a lunch menu at Breakery.
It is also an option for break (pause: the name, Breakery, is a play on words between bakery and break, bakery break) at lunchtime with poke bowls, salads, piccolos and, yes, also the pastries and high pastry of Balaguer.
Around the corner, tables to eat some of those cakes (vanilla, raspberry, lychee and roses; pear, yuzu and vanilla) with tea, coffee or Valhrona chocolate, but you can also buy them to take away: ordering it in situ or advancing the order through the web to pick it up later.
Breakery, the new project by Oriol Balaguer.
Breakery, furthermore, will be changing, advancing, as Balaguer always does. The letter will be expanded. "That's how we are, we like to bring new things to the cards and that cards are constantly evolving. It has always been one of our premises as a brand: to incorporate new collections each season, new creations, introduce the latest ideas, prototypes that sometimes appear at the least expected moment…”, explains the pastry chef. In other words, he continues, the cards will be constantly evolving and expanding. "This is in our DNA as a brand and we will continue to do so, and The fact that Breakery is a coffee and lunch space opens up a path of many possibilities... We will include our classics , but also We will let our imagination flow.”
Death By Chocolate.
In addition, as of this September, Oriol Balaguer will also will be introducing its sweet cuisine in other menus of the gastronomic offer of the Only YOU Hotel Atocha. “The idea is to progressively incorporate Breakery's sweet line in the other areas of the hotel,” he says. “We will include some details in the events part, in the restaurant menu it will be present, for example, the 'Chocolate Textures' and in the cocktails, we are going to offer our desired and greedy 'Sweet Cocktail'.
That said, much more than a hotel café, and much more than a one-time collaboration.
Thousand layer croissant.
Address: Paseo de la Infanta Isabel, 13 (inside the Only YOU Hotel Atocha) See map
Telephone: 91 409 78 76
Schedule: From Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays it opens at 10.