Happy New Year, #yosoytraveler!
It is a night to reflect and take stock of the previous 365 days, it should not be a night to kill yourself in the kitchen. Or if you are simply looking for a delicious way to say goodbye to the year, here they are some of the best dinners and the best restaurants to celebrate New Year's Eve in Madrid.
** DOÑALUZ (C/ de la Montera, 10) **
In the last rooftop open to get closer to the sky of Madrid, a privileged view of the chimes of the Puerta del Sol. The terrace opens from 9:00 p.m. only for those who have booked the **special menu (€200)** with views of the clock. A menu with a welcome cocktail, dishes such as lobster tacos with avocado and mango, a wide variety of starters, a second to choose from (grilled sirloin or sea bass) and desserts. And then the grapes live, without Ramontxu or wrapper.
That's how close you'll have the chimes.
** PETIT PALACE (C/Alfonso XII, 18) **
New Year's Eve Petit Palace in front of the Retiro starts with a magic show by Inés la maga, continue with a gala dinner that culminates with lucky grapes (€195). On the menu: lobster and mango wraps with a touch of kimuchi, earth's treasures cream with a brushstroke of carabinieri coral, monkfish loin with sea urchin essence and shellfish bags; lime sorbet with cava to cleanse the palate before the duck confit paired with white chocolate, and for dessert a spiral of red fruit mousse with raspberry coulis. They also have a children's menu (€65). In his first cousin, the ** Indiano of the Hotel Icon Casona, ** they have prepared a Mexican menu of seven passes and also with final grapes (€150).
**V CLUB FEAT. AROLA (C/ Caunedo, 4) **
The return of Sergio Arola in Madrid has been one of the latest gastronomic news of 2018, so why not say goodbye to the year in the restaurant inside this nightclub, which offers the possibility of a full night because the cotillion is available until 03.00. The menu prepared for New Year's Eve (€120 does not include wine cellar, but does include four glasses) starts with follies and hors d'oeuvres, and continues with Riesling clam chowder, fried oysters and Jerusalem artichoke purée, monkfish medallion and venison sirloin.
Entering the year from the sea... more or less.
** TRAPPED (Paseo de las Acacias, 12) **
A Christmas without seafood is like a day without bread. A good option to say goodbye to 2018 is to do it with a menu in which the product of the sea is the king. This is whoever designed this Galician restaurant in Madrid (€100 with drink) : with glazed scallop in crab coulis, Grilled shrimp, lobster salad and prawns or monkfish with pine nut sauce as marine dishes, plus some carnivorous accompaniment (Iberian ham, lamb shoulder).
** CHICOTE MUSEUM (C/ Gran Vía, 12) **
End the year as I spent the nights Ava Gardner in one of her favorite sites (you already know it well from Burn Madrid). In Chicote they offer dinner and party favors (until three in the morning) for €99 with the first drink included. The menu: Iberian cheek cannelloni, vichyssoise with tuna tartare, wild sea bass, suckling lamb, apple pie, grapes and party.
Pumpkin and orange cream with Galician scallop.
** TAVERN OF THE QUEEN (C/ Gran Vía, 10) **
The new sister Queen's Market (where they also open on New Year's Eve), a place designed to share dishes of Spanish cuisine, also opens on the last night of the year and extends the cotillion until the early morning of the first (until two). On the table: Iberian ham, foie mille-feuille, apple and poulard; sea bass loin and shoulder. There will be no shortage of grapes and the first drink (all €99).
** BLACK CHARCOAL (C/ Juan Bravo, 37) **
The cheesecake has been the dish of the year in Madrid and Carbon black has a good reason. And, of course, its cheesecake is included in **the New Year's Eve menu (€200)** which before goes through other of the star dishes of this great place conceived around the coals: potato porrusalda and Oscietra caviar, grilled sole, diced chop with candied piquillo peppers... Includes grapes, Christmas sweets and drinks.
You already want the year to end just to try it...
** SA BRISA (Avenida de Menéndez Pelayo, 15) **
An Ibizan New Year's Eve in Madrid. The chef Gonzalo Araguez has brought together in a long menu some of the most representative dishes of this interpretation that he makes of the cuisine of the Pitiusa island, such as the Ibizan pork pastry, crispy Ibizan goat cheese, sobrassada and rosemary honey or the Ibizan black with saiko miso. Includes **(for €170) ** drink and dancing until two o'clock.
** SANTCELONI (Paseo de la Castellana, 57) **
Oscar Velasco reopens its two Michelin star kitchen for such a special night. Once again, the menu that she prepares to liven up New Year's Eve is still secret and she will only reveal it a few days before. A surprise that she never disappoints. There are two options: without pairing for €410; with pairing for €560. Both options allow End the night at the Scotch Bar party at the Hesperia hotel.
Rogue dinner and rogue show.
** PLATEA MADRID (C/ Goya, 5-7) **
This former theater and cinema, today a gastronomic temple, bids farewell to 2018 with a dinner show Music, dancers and performances accompany the evening to enter 2019 with more energy. They take care of the kitchen Ricard Camarena and Enrique Diaz with two menus created just for this special night. the of Camarena Scoundrel Menu (€300) i It includes a vegetable taco of shrimps, razor clams and cockles, crispy turbot, shoulder of lamb... In the Diaz taco, served **in the Patio (€190) and the Pit (€170) ** there is tuna poké, salmon ingot, wagyu rib…
** LES MAUVAIS GARÇONS (C/ de la Madera, 36) **
For carnivores and playful, for bad boys and girls who are looking for something really different. Gael Bourg serves in his shop what he likes and only what he likes, a good product, made as he prefers: the rawer, the better. And he just wants to have a good time, which is why on his special New Year's Eve menu there are dishes like Chupada del Mar, kitten nigiri, Un tour dans les bois, black soup... And dessert or grapes appear between question marks. Everything will be surprises.
** CUTLERY OF GLORY (C/ Toledo, 28) **
For those who cannot leave La Latina or at parties or for those who do not want to be too far from Puerta del Sol or for those who want a good old fashioned dinner The Glory Cutlery New Year's Eve menu **(€110, €65 for children under 12)** includes Iberian ham, foie micuit, lobster cream, sea bass and suckling pig. And, of course, grapes and a chinchín.
This is how the menu begins with views of the Gran Vía.
** ICE AND COAL - Hotel Hyatt Centric Gran Vía**
Saying goodbye to the year deserves a dinner to match, such as the one at the Hielo y Carbón restaurant, where luxury and modernity coexist in harmony. The hours before the countdown will be more special thanks to a festive menu that begins with an exquisite oyster appetizer with leche de tigre from its juice, plankton and mashed sweet potato and, on the other hand, a excellent duck micuit.
But, without a doubt, the dishes that aim to dazzle even the most demanding of palates are the grilled sea bass with rhubarb and tarragon tzatziki and the tasty brisket.
After the chimes, the first bite of 2019 will feature a delicious golden pear with champagne sorbet, goat cheese cake crumbs and stuffed with walnut cream. The price of this menu is 130 euros per person and includes party favors and two glasses of cava to toast, with views of the radiant Gran Vía, for what is yet to come.
** RUBAIYAT (C/ Juan Ramón Jiménez, 37) **
A pre-Christmas classic because its group menus and their feijoadas is also a good option for New Year's Eve with **a dinner created by Mariana Argeoli (€165 with drink) ** that starts with a caipirinha to whet your appetite and continues with well-known dishes from the Brazilian with more tradition in Madrid, like the lobster with potato parmentier and trumpets of death or the grilled sirloin with potato gratin and jabugo sauce.
Grilled sirloin with jabugo sauce.