Every time I tell a foreigner that one of our favorite and most traditional dishes is closely linked to the mixture of eggs, potatoes, salt and oil I don't usually get a gasp. And he sees that I put effort into it. The recipe for omelette It is such a simple combination that in theory it does not sound like glory, but oh yes, it tastes like it. And everyone whose jaw I didn't drop at the time of the description understands what I say when he walks up to the bar. Dani House , a classic from Madrid that conquers with its recipe (with well-poached, almost caramelised Manchegan potatoes) and which is already an essential stop for tourists, locals and Hollywood artists.
"We Nailed the Cook Times" its owners say to justify their good hand with the tortilla, known as the best in Madrid. A success that is evident daily and relentlessly with a bar that is always crowded and in which it is so easy to gain a foothold just by sticking out your elbows like machetes to make yourself strong. A coffee with milk... in a glass! Give me a cane! Marching a bottle of Mahou! blessed glory.
They make it with or without onion , although to us in Traveler.es the first is the one that wins us when we escape from the newsroom (just a ten-minute walk from the Mercado de la Paz) to put a good portion between our chest and back. Juicy, splendid and wonderful.
And if this already perfect and iconic piece of Madrid's culinary offer is showered with its callos a la madrileña , we return to our workplace building a monument of praise for them all the way. Although his last temptation is to cover it with acorn-fed Iberian ham cut with a knife, a full-fledged tribute.
Thirty years of experience go a long way and they are what Dani García (second generation at the helm of Casa Dani), together with his sister, have inherited. All with the support of a great kitchen team led by his mother Lola, who is in charge of giving the pan those shakes so that potato it is perfect and those who rush do not get a drop of sweat.
Omelette House Dani
You visit it the day you visit it, Dani House he never has a lonely moment and, despite the hustle and bustle, they have everything under control from 8 in the morning, when their tortillas begin to set. In fact, it seems that here goes the mambo and that his thing is the movement, the hustle and bustle, shouting the commands to give him that traditional touch that he relentlessly falls in love with, year after year, tortilla after tortilla. Look where you are, us and all those tourists that we lead by the arm to meet him, too.