An explosion of flavor in Madrid
Pink Monkey landed last year in Madrid to become a privileged egg among admirers of Asian fusion cuisine. Now his 'little brother' Sasha Boom It arrives to complete his proposal and expand it to a more global cuisine. “The main difference with Pink Monkey would be that this menu includes more cuisines ”, tells us the chef Jaime Renedo. “It has flavors from Lebanon or Greece, and also some Mexican details.”
Sasha Boom's interior
Renedo is classically trained, passed through El Bulli and ended up cooking in Peru and Southeast Asia. And everything he learned on his travels has been poured back into a very thoughtful letter to Sasha Boom. Short (with about twenty plates) so as not to despair, but full of imagination, intense, original flavors and a lot of color. The octopus on a hot fire, for example, François Poplawsky's favorite, is an explosion of colours: from the purple of the Kalamata olive ali oli, to the green of the Huacatay cream.
octopus on live fire
The orange-red or reddish-orange of the shrimp dumplings with Thai red curry is also intense. of their heads; a perfect combination with chicken and crab dim sum and sweet soup that you have to eat in one bite.
The scallop kimuchi, nam jim mussels, thai salad , and, without a doubt, to get out of Southeast Asia, the Lebanese pizza with halloumi cheese, Kalamata and tomato confit. In order not to get lost in flavors and ingredients, the waiters explain each dish and how it should be eaten. Many, because yes, with their hands.
Asia on your plate at Sasha Boom
In addition, to continue honoring that slogan that hangs on the wall in neon: Renedo continues to work on novelties and outside the menu continuously. The night of the visit of this writer they offered soft shell crab baos (soft crab), a perfect combination of the crunchiness of the crab and the fluffiness of the bao bread.
“Same same, but different”
The decoration of Juan Taboada It is designed so that the place, in the northern end of the popular Ponzano, is versatile. Quiet and bright during the day, a little more rogue, but stately at night. And the bar, as in Pink Monkey, is also the protagonist. Igor Lameiras and Alexis Cárdenas Rodríguez have created a short cocktail menu that they will constantly renew. After the success of the Ling Ling or the kiwi and huacatay mojito or the Spicy mango lemonade, they continue to introduce drinks such as the incredible Jurassic, served in a white egg-shaped glass, with melon and cream.
The bar is always the protagonist in Sasha Boom
WHY GO?
For the shrimp dumpling, for the pizza, for the octopus on a live fire, for the kimuchi, for the tiraditos... For giving you a tribute.
ADDITIONAL FEATURES
The out of menu that Jaime Renedo usually prepares. If everyone is like the soft shell crab bath… terrace open all year , prepared for summer and winter, in a quiet area of Raimundo Fernández Villaverde, near the hustle and bustle of Ponzano taverns.
Terrace open all year
IN DATA
Address : Raimundo Fernandez Villaverde Street, 26
Telephone: 91 199 50 10
Price: tasting menus for 37 and 65 euros. A la carte: 25 – 30 euros.
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Sasha Boom Dumplings