Coffee with milk in the Plaza Mayor... but better
Pestana Hotel Group enters Madrid through the main door, or rather through the main square. The House of the Butchery of the Plaza Mayor It is the place chosen by the Portuguese group to bring a little piece of its hotel excellence (and essence!) to the most traditional heart of the capital.
Pestana Plaza Mayor – a four-star hotel with luxury services that also occupies the annex building that was once a fire station – is structured in such a way that it connects the arcaded square designed by Juan de Herrera and Juan Gómez de Mora with Imperial Street, where the main entrance of the hotel is located and an independent and direct access to the Rib Beef & Wine restaurant. This promises to become a new point of culinary interest for the city, and in the excuse that the people of Madrid needed to return eagerly to Madrid de los Austrias.
Among the valuable original details of the building are the Talavera de la Reina tiles that cover part of its walls.
A) Yes, the interior patio where the fire trucks used to rest is converted into a gastronomic space dedicated to meat –how could it be otherwise if we take into account that the Casa de la Carnicería housed the meat warehouse that supplied the markets of the Villa during the 17th century–.
The Portuguese chef Rui Martins, at the head of the Rib Beef & Wine in Lisbon and Porto, is in charge of orchestrating a menu endorsed by experience and based on good macerated beef cuts controlled by the most advanced techniques.
He does it hand in hand with the Spanish chef Pablo Bernal, who at the head of the cannon (no longer Ice and Coal) shapes and reinterprets the traditional recipes of Portuguese and Spanish cuisine (don't you think it would be great to start calling it portuñola cuisine?).
In addition, the hotel has a more relaxed restaurant (with tapas to share) under the portico of the Plaza Mayor, in which they will install a summer terrace that we are sure will attract the attention not only of tourists, but also of those who are eager to 'retake' one of the most beautiful parts of the city.
Pieces of crochet and bobbin lace line the walls of the building's grand staircase.
DETAILS THAT COUNT
Anyone who knows the Pestana group knows that part of its success (and its charm) lies in respecting the historical past of the buildings it occupies, but also in nourishing its hotels with decoration and local experiences in such a way that only by sleeping in them we are able to feel and touch the essence of the place in which they are located.
Both the interior architecture, decoration and equipment {#m_-261011999818915182m_-9032189937981045595:31n.19}, have been orchestrated and designed by studio b76 . Thus, in Pestana Plaza Mayor The original Talavera de la Reina tiles that cover some of its common areas are striking. and fall in love with the crochet and bobbin lace pieces that decorate the building's grand staircase; also the exposed bricks of its walls are a sign that past and present can coexist in harmony.
You only have to look at the carpets in the lounge and in the rooms (a total of 87, ten of which are suites): the first recreate the pattern of the pavement of the Plaza Mayor and the second, the floral decoration of the façade of the Casa de la Panadería, located just opposite.
What does the pattern of this Pestana Plaza Mayor rug remind you of?
THERE IS NO BEACH, BUT THERE ARE SWIMMING POOLS
The indoor pool will be in the basement, which will be the area dedicated to the spa. A haven of peace in which the striped hammocks with latticework rest flanked by the restored arches and buttresses of the original building and in whose walls you can see the openings through which coal was once introduced.
And on the roof, where the view is lost on the oldest roofs of the city, the outdoor pool will be the favorite corner of those who want to make the expression "from Madrid to heaven" their own.
The spa will be located in the basement, with vaulted brick walls and ceiling.
***Report published on March 22, 2019 and updated on May 21, 2019**