What's new in the city for autumn 2016
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Restaurants are like sneakers: there are never too many . If they are good, enjoyable and, later, countable, much less. This is season of openings and novelties . There are so many that we will divide them into groups.
monothematic and thematic
Choose an ingredient, product or dish and build a project around it. This is what places like Duck&Sushi . This is the project of a very young Chinese businesswoman, from the family behind Tao; It is located outside the center, in General Perón, which allows it to have a spectacular space. On the menu, sushi and duck (and something else) as advertised. The **Rhum Bar** is another monograph. In that case it revolves around the rum; in this bar they offer up to 50 varieties. It is in the Palacete La Quinta del Marqués de la Concordia, a unique place also away from the classic routes of the center. And nothing happens. Madrid is more than Malasaña and the Barrio de las Letras . Really.
Sushi and only sushi
Around the world with a fork in hand
National and international cuisines have the perfect place in Madrid. The people of Madrid are daring and soon get bored of everything. They like nothing more than having a tamale for dinner one day and eating some scallops the next day. This fall we will travel to Latin America from Chueca with the help of Omar Malpartida . In his new space, ** / M **, he offers his version of the street food , especially Peruvian, with dishes like Spicy breadsticks or mussels.
In Mexico we will make several stops. One will take us to the Hotel Villamagna, he is so elegant; chef Daniel Ovadía settles there again (until October 30). Bring a triple proposal: street food , which will be served in the Patio Magnum and Mexican haute cuisine in the Restaurant Villa Magna . More informal but delicious is the ** Cutztamala Mex Food **, located in the very interesting Antón Martín market. If we feel like going through several cultures in the same menu, we can go to ** Sasha Boom **; it is the new space of Francois Poplawsky and Jaime Renedo, who are also behind Pink Monkey. At Sasha Boom they continue to offer Asian food but they travel to more places. Without moving from the table, we will eat from dim sum to Lebanese pizzas passing through baths or sashimi.
If we don't want such long trips, we can go to the ** Zahara de Osborne ,** a Andalusian branch that has just opened in the Plaza de Santa Ana. The interior design of the space is by Luis García-Fraile who interprets Cádiz in a luminous way. Some shrimp tortillas and a manzanilla?
Sasha Boom
eat at the hotel
It has long ceased to be either an extravagance or something for unimaginative guests. In fact, one of the big openings of the season is (and it's in a hotel) . The hotel is called Totem , and we already talked about it when we met it just opened. The restaurant and cocktail bar they just did it and it's already written down in the agendas (or in the móvies) of half of Madrid. The concept is called Beautiful and Cursed. Influence, yes, you've figured it out, smartasses, is Scott Fitzgerald and the air of cosmopolitan and decadent enjoyment of him is appreciated throughout the space. Beautiful is the restaurant and Malditos is the cocktail bar. The gastronomic brain of this idea is Alejandra Anson ; therefore, we are clear that in Hermoso you will eat well and that the demand will be high. The menu brings together simple, well-cooked dishes that encourage repeat cooking, such as roast beef, lentil salad or mackerel skewer.
In Malditos the cocktails bear the signature of Fran Camino . Be careful, do not miss any detail of the decoration (the crockery is designed ad hoc by Vajillas de Ultramar) and even the design of the menus. Scott Fitzgerald sneaks everywhere.
beautiful and cursed
Another hotel that opens, in this case reopens, is the Hotel Sweden . This Madrid classic is now part of NH's pretty girl, the NH Collection label. Its location, next to the Círculo de Bellas Artes, is fabulous. In addition, now he is going to bet on gastronomy. Behind is Lluis Canadell, who created spaces such as Boca Grande or El Nacional in Barcelona. the ineffable Lazaro Rosa Violan has decorated the gastronomic concept of the hotel, which they have called House Sweden . We see a good plan here: film or theater and then, yum, yum.
One last gastro-hotel fact: ** Santceloni turns 16 ** and celebrates it by renewing his image.
Santceloni debuts image
two big projects
The last gastro subcategory is made up of two novelties that deserve, due to their ambition, that prefix. Danny Garcia (with its two Michelin stars) has arrived in Madrid deploying all its artillery. His big bet is called BiBo . It is in a tremendous premises (800 m2 and 120 seats) in Castellana. BiBO It is many things at once: brasserie, tapas bar and steak house. It offers cooking all day, snacks and brunch on weekends. Lighting reminds us of something. Yes, it is the Malaga fair.
Bibo: Madrid's new Andalusian whim
The other big project is in the Reina Sofía . there it opens NuBel , an idea by Javier Muñoz-Calero, who has plenty of creativity and the ability to get into (good) trouble. **NuBel (a nod to Jean Nouvel)** occupies 1000m2 of ground floor space that has been so much wasted. Now it's here to stay and alter the neighborhood. Here, finally and after a long time, you will eat well, in attractive surroundings and at reasonable prices. It will cover all hours of the day from 9 in the morning. NuBel will serve breakfast, lunch, snacks, tapas and dinner with a DJ. Note: the DJ is not eaten.
Rendering of the project for the new restaurant at the Reina Sofía Museum
MORE NEWS, MORE
Although gastronomy occupies everything (how we like to eat and drink) autumn arrives with news in many more areas.
Beauty
Opens, in the center of Madrid, Tacha Beauty. After years in El Plantío this place, a total reference, is duplicated in the Paseo de la Castellana . Tacha are two syllables that sound like heavenly music for the many clients of Natalia de la Vega, its creator. In its new (and large) space it offers everything we think a place for care and well-being should have. In addition, it has its social areas. A Blemish he is going to take care of himself but also to be.
Beauty in the Castilian
Shopping
This will be the store's first fall Zubi . The brand has been in the market for almost five years but has now opened its first physical space in the Zurban street. The proposal of the Zubizarreta sisters is interesting (and has crept into the closet of many women). They use their travels as a starting point to create prints and patterns that they then apply to bags and household items. Zubi is both simple and sophisticated. A brand that is the product of a time in which the slow and the charismatic are valued.
More news
Bico of Xeado It is an ice cream parlor that uses natural and fresh milk-milk that comes from its farm in La Coruña. Ice creams are also for fall. Amen it is a fantastic space that is in Malasaña and it is full of pieces chosen by its owner, Rocío Mendívil. It sells brand name clothing from around the world, accessories and holds exhibitions. The prices, and this is interesting, are reasonable, something that differentiates it from similar stores. Don't call it a concept store: Rocío doesn't like it.
BICO de xeado, from the cow (Galician) to the cornet (Madrid)
Renoir and more
September is the start of a busy season for museums and art centers. Let's save a hole in the agenda to go to the Mapfre Foundation . There we can visit bruce-davidson , the first retrospective in Spain of the American photographer. To the main building of the foundation arrives an incontestable teacher, Renoir . From the modern ideal to the classical ideal. Collections of the Musée d'Orsay and Musée de l'Orangerie; it will be one of the great expos of the fall . For mythomaniacs: you can see the Bal du Moulin de la Galette , something unusual in Spain.
Renoir is the protagonist of the artistic autumn in Madrid. The Thyssen Museum The season also starts with him. He does it with Renoir. Intimacy, another moment to marvel. At the end of November one of the most anticipated samples will arrive: Bulgari and Rome . But we will tell about that later, already with the scarf wrapped around the neck.
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Bal du Moulin de la Galette