You will believe that you are not in Madrid, you are in Madrid alone.
Madrid is a little more yours in August. If you stay because yes, as an act of faith, for pleasure, "because it is better to go on vacation in September. Or even if you stay by force. Madrid is a little more yours for the next 31 days. Seize it. Also to eat it. It is the best time to enjoy all those tables that you have heard about the rest of the year, the cuisines that you have not yet been able to try or, simply, those that you really like. You can even look out over those terraces and gardens that the rest of the summer looked like a Benidorm beach. Madrid in August is a little more yours. Eat it.
THE DOG AND THE CHAMBERÍ COOKIE
The last location of the Fontaneda group. A return to the first restaurant that made them popular, but located in Chamberí. A decoration inspired by an English country house, that is to say, like a little trip to that England that, if that, you visit at another time. Its menu, as always, has summer and fresh proposals, such as the salmon poké or the tuna tartare. But there are also its classics, such as the battered aubergines in a Maria biscuit with Parmesan and pomodoro.
A space of peace also in August.
V. CLUB FEAT AROLA
In this multipurpose space (gaming, cooking, dancing), Sergio Arola He has been in charge of signing the dinner menu. A throwback to his landing at La Broche in 1997: very casual kitchen, especially, in the first thought to share. Like the Arola bravas potatoes, the bite-sized Russian salad… In the terrace August nights will be longer.
BIBO MADRID
Although we anxiously awaited the opening of Lobito de Mar this summer in Madrid, the Marbella beach bar of Danny Garcia transferred to the center of the Meseta, we cool off more than comfortably at Bibo Madrid, which is open throughout the month of August and has some dishes on the menu that bring us a little closer to the coast, such as that ode to tuna, fried Andalusian or cold soups, ** like the cherry gazpacho or red spider crab salmorejo.
The appetizer of August: Dani García's oxtail brioche.
COURTYARD OF LIONS
And we continue sightseeing in Madrid, in your city. This time you end up in the very Puerta de Alcalá, after a walk through the Retiro, that lung in which the temperature drops a little. You leave hungry and wanting something new: the Patio de Leones terrace. Jorge Llovet, from nearby Ramses, is behind the project that continues to revive the traditional tavern. The kitchen is open all day. And what better way to cool off than some tripe or some churros. We're not kidding.
RAMPAGE
August is a good month to be a tourist in your city. So if you feel like kicking it, you might end up in the Plaza de España and then look for a place to cool off and eat at any time: that's Alboroto, uninterrupted and casual cuisine: pizzas, hamburgers, salads... but good. And even a good selection of cocktails and at night, little music.
Spacious and bright.
HOLY
Traditional Mexican charcoal cooking. Tacos of pissed gizzards, squid with Iberian veil. In this Mexican in the Tribunal area, opened this year, there are lifelong recipes, from Mexican mothers, revised with Spanish ingredients. It is also a good after work idea (if you are still working in August) to take a drink and a taco: They have an interesting variety of cocktails, from micheladas to ice cold margaritas. And some ice creams also have a little bit of tequila.
There is no heat that does not refresh a tequilita.
FIRE FISH
One of the best openings of last year that remains open throughout the month of August, in case you haven't tried it yet: this is your moment. to your letter specialized in embers (where they throw products from the sea and land), they have added in these hot months most appetizing dishes: cold mixed salmorejo and ajoblanco soup or traditional gazpacho with tomato ice cream They are two good starters to refresh the stomach before their powerful beef tomahawk.
Embers, sea, terrace... a bit feel outside of Madrid.
SHANGHAI MOM
Maybe you don't stay in Madrid for pleasure, maybe you preferred to be lying on the beach or touring some Asian country... Madrid also thinks of you and there are places like one of the Shanghai Mama venues where at least you can take your palate to the streets of the Chinese city. The beef and truffle xiaolongbao, the Shanghai duck or the chicken ku bak continue to be their star dishes. Travel a little with the senses. It has premises with a terrace (in Las Tablas and in Arturo Soria).
And the next trip to Shanghai for real.
THE OLIVE GROVES OF CASTILLEJO
One of the star spaces of the Madrid summer since it was reopened last year with the gastronomic space of Unloved. The menu is simple, very trendy (tacos, gyozas, burrata...), but we don't go there to eat, although there are also concerts by live music and a few entrances at night between ancient olive trees that get your mind to wander a little, dream of a Madrid with cleaner air, an August less August.
All this is for you.
MISTER O1
"Extraordinary Pizza" is the subtitle of this new pizzeria in Madrid, directly from Miami, where the "extraordinary" recipe of René Viola, Created after years of learning and experience in his native Italy and around the world, it succeeds. A star-shaped pizza, each point filled with ricotta. A special flour sent to you from an Italian farm. Tomato and cheese too. The rest of the ingredients are local. And he combines them in the most unexpected ways.
Warm pizza? It is possible with their burrata straciatella. Pizza with coffee? Also. You have the whole month of August to discover the pizzas that everyone is talking about.
*Report originally published on August 1, 2017, updated on August 8, 2018 and July 31, 2019
Star Luca, the star and star pizza from Mister O1.