Fresh pasta and lots of love
Do you add oil to the water when you cook the pasta? Do you throw the spaghetti against the wall to check if it is ready? Do you help yourself with a spoon or knife to eat them? Bad, bad and bad. These customs and others that we have all been able to practice at some point are barbaric for Italians. Like if you add grated cheese to a fruti di mare pasta with fish or shellfish. “It is as if you put ketchup on a paella”, they will tell you.
The internationalization of Italian cuisine has led us to think that we all know how to cook a good plate of pasta or how to eat pizza, but in reality is surrounded by false myths from the kitchen to the plate . Myths that we have decided to discard once and for all in Traveler.es touring some of the best Italian restaurants in town . from the famous Andrea Tumbarello to newcomers You! Pasta . We go from a small Sardinian trattoria to try authentic Sicilian pizza and a good Roman stew. Because no, not everything in Italian cuisine is pasta or pizza. Welcome and good appetite!
FALSE MYTHS AND CURIOSITIES OF ITALIAN CUISINE
What mistakes do we Spaniards make when approaching Italian gastronomy? What is left for us to discover? Is there life beyond pizza and pasta? Get update , play!
HOW TO EAT PIZZA LIKE AN ITALIAN
You've thought about it a thousand times and you don't quite have it clear... With a knife and fork? Dubbed? We have asked to solve your eternal doubts.
THE SECRETS OF AN ITALIAN ABOUT CHEESE AND TOMATOES
What cheeses best accompany pasta? What is the perfect cheese combo with carbonara? Is it really worth buying it grated? Wait, and all pasta is served with cheese? How do you get authentic Italian tomato sauce? Play!
OUR EXPERTS:
DON GIOVANNI
Entering Don Giovanni is peering into the passionate life of Andrea Tumbarello . Photos and memorabilia dot the walls and capture the devotion that arouses his way of understanding cooking: maximum quality and minimum imposture . Andrea exudes humour, creativity and life , a life that continues until the creations of the so-called king of the truffle. Don't be fooled by his entrance (more than discreet): he comes by and sit in the family (red and white tablecloths, human treatment and a smile as a way of facing life). Pastas, pizzas, meats, desserts... everything satisfies, but don't go home without trying a white truffle dish.
STAR DISH
Their Bosconara Spaghetti , a forest carbonara pasta, with boletus and truffle. Pure emotion.
USEFUL DATA
Address: Paseo Reina Cristina, nº23 (rear)
Telephone: 91 434 83 38
Closing day: Monday
Half price: €50
La Bosconara: Boletus and black truffle, the scents and flavors of the forest
TRATTORIA LIMBARA
Renzo Sanna He is Sardinian by birth and Madrilenian by adoption. . He has been in Madrid for years and behind the stove of his small Trattoria de Chamberí also a few. In its small local , with austere decoration, kitchen and serves all the traditional recipes from their island, sardinia , which remind him of his childhood and makes the rest of us travel to the Italian island because he prepares them with raw materials that come directly from there, from cheese to wine.
STAR DISH
For the usual he has a few, of which culurgiones a la fregola , but no one ever leaves Limbara without a frattau bread .
USEFUL DATA
Address: Olid Street, 6
Telephone: 910 11 71 03
Schedule: from Tuesday to Saturday from 13:30-16:30 and from 20:30 to 23:30. Sundays only noon, Monday closed.
Half price: €25. Menu of the day 11.50.
FIASCHETTERIA LA SALETTA
It could look like your aunt's living room , but we are in the Antón Martín Market, a place where you can breathe authenticity and care for gastronomy . This homey corner with a ye-yé touch is the extension of Fiaschetteria La Saletta. A stand surrounded by high tables where bad humor disappears when you say Ciao! to any of its partners Massimo Rogante, Jimmy di Santo and Jonata Pierleoni , originally from central Italy (and his team, of course). Their pizzas are anthology . It's the perfect place to plan how to change the world.
STAR DISH
Its buffalo and truffle pizza . And the porchetta , the marinated and baked pork so typical of Italian street food.
USEFUL DATA
Address: Santa Isabel, 5 (28012) Madrid
Telephone: 914 291 771
Schedule: Monday to Saturday, from 1:30 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. and from 7:45 p.m. to 10:15 p.m.
Half price: €20
YOUR! PASTA
ilenia cappai Y Orazio Corva They are responsible for one of the last successful Italian restaurants in Madrid. In you! Pasta not only serves traditional transalpine cuisine, such as spaghetti carbonara or penene all'arrabiata , they also innovate with lesser-known recipes here and, above all, they make all the products available to the customer in their small counter. Because what makes the difference, you! Pasta of others is your concept, Risto-Shop They have called it, they cook and sell everything from the famous Bologna mortadella to the Mulino Bianco biscuits or the biscuits with which to try to make a good tiramisu at home.
STAR DISH
Spaghetti carbonara made just like an Italian mamma or nonna would . In less than a year, you! Pasta has managed to carve out a niche for itself among the Italian restaurants in Madrid, precisely because of the good point of the more classic recipes.
USEFUL DATA
Address: Avenida Menéndez Pelayo, 27. 28009. Madrid
Telephone: 91 409 22 89
Schedule: Monday, from 11am to 8pm; Tuesday to Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. and Sundays, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Half price: €25
The spaghetti carbonara at ¡Tu! Pasta
AWARDED FORNERY BALLARÓ
After the success of the Mercato Ballaró, the Sicilian chef Angelo Marino decided to throw himself into the opening of a new place dedicated, above all, to authentic pizza, which is prepared in a wood-fired oven. Modern and minimalist decoration with an interesting terrace in full Santa Engracia , Forneria Ballaró has already managed to place its pizzas among the best in Madrid with a basic recipe: good raw material and a wood oven that works uninterruptedly.
STAR DISH
The pizzas, of course. The flavor of the wood oven is second to none. And if you have to choose between all the ones that it has in two sizes (individual and large), we stay with the classic Margarita or marrow , one of his most special recipes.
USEFUL DATA
Address: Santa Engracia Street, 90
Telephone: 91 593 91 33
Schedule: uninterrupted from 12 to 2 in the morning every day.
Half price: €25
Pizza with black truffle, bacon and fior di late mozzarella
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(*) Vicente Gayo: camera operator. Jean Paul Porte: post-production and editing.