One thing to note about Spain, it's very difficult to find a good restaurant that your American…read morekids will eat at and enjoy in Spain. The Spanish don't do sweet, they virtually include zero spice (I'm not just talking about spicy, I'm talking flavor too), and they love their cheese, the more potent the better. Therefore, Italian food has sadly become our go-to in Spain with the kids. For this reason, late in the evening we needed a meal and found/sought out this place because it's Italian. Upfront I'll tell you this, it's not good but it's not bad either. First off, the place is tiny. Most places in Spain are so that's not a surprise. Our party of five had to be separated and seated at two tables away from one another. However, what was surprising was that the entire restaurant was at least 20 degrees warmer inside than it was outside, which depresses your appetite significantly. They don't have menus but they do have what I consider to be the worst thing to ever happen to restaurants, the dreaded QR code (http://www.pastucci.com/wp-content/uploads/CartaCascoIngles.pdf). The menu consist of pasta, pizza, lasagna, apps, and desserts. Our party had the Margarita pizza, pepperoni pizza, melenzane lasagne (eggplant lasagna), and penne la funghi (penne pasta with cream sauce and mushrooms). The pizza was good but extremely greasy, the penne was very good, and the melenzane was gross, soggy, slimy, basically a lump of sizzling goo. The food took forever to prepare and deliver but each dish was hot. In total, this meal cost us about €63, not too bad for five. The bathrooms were clean and unlike most Spanish restaurants had paper towels to dry your hands. Plus, they had a female and male toilet. However, I'll let you be the judge on which is which since one is a blue angel and the other is a red devil with a dress. Overall, not a horrible experience but I probably will not return. The food left much to be desired and the wait time was incredibly too long. I guess the kids will just have to be good with tapas and tortilla next time we're in Toledo.

My husband and I were in need of a meal as we first arrived in Toledo. It was a dark and rainy day,…read moreand pretty much every business was closed. We stumbled upon this restaurant, we could see the bright lights on a dark road. The staff were very attentive and provided our drinks/food in a timely manner. We made it easy and just ordered a large pepperoni pizza. It was good, and hit the spot. There aren't a lot of pizza places in Toledo so I'd come back for another pizza craving if I am ever in Toledo again!

We ordered the prix fix dinner and we really enjoyed the mixed paella with a lot of seafood. My cod…read moredish was wry well prepared and the fish was done to perfection. My fruit dessert came with yogurt on the bottom. Very good!

I am from California... and this was a great place to eat. In our party we had gluten restrictions…read more This place was perfect. Although it was "American" food.... The meats were all from the Toledo area. So you could experience Toledo local food but still appeal to a Californian palette. There was only one server and he was not the most receptive or energetic server, but that's ok... not many restaurants are open on a Spanish Sunday. Lastly this place has clean bathrooms and it's well air-conditioned.

Looking for a non-Spanish food place for dinner one evening, we found Bresca…read more The interior is cute. Lots of stone with greenery. Just very cozy feeling. Our server was good and helped gove some recommendations. There was a BOGO drink special on spritz, so we started with that and the gnocco fritto, which were like little puffed pita bread. I had the pistachio pesto pasta and hubs had carbonara. We both loved our pastas and couldn't say no to the pistachio tiramisu dessert. If you need a break from Spanish food while in Madrid, Bresca is a great choice.

After a week of tapas in Madrid we were starting look for other food options besides tapas and…read morefinally decided on Italian at Bresca. It is a very small, functional, and modest restaurant in a very convenient location. Ratings were decent. For three of us we ordered 2x lazagna made with spinach pasta, and 1x Ham ravioli. Both were excellent. The lasagna was particularly enjoyable. Order an extra if you bring an American appetite.

We enjoyed our drinks and food, but the staff had an attitude. They were also too busy to inform us…read morethat the kitchen would be closing at 1600, so we were unable to complete our food order. Restaurant goers should note that the promotion requires a series of orders from each guest in the party. We were ready to order several dishes but were not able since the kitchen abruptly closed halfway through our meal. We were not notified after being seated nor were our menus taken as any indication that the food service had ended. It would be helpful if your website and your internet listings page had the correct hours of operation or if the waitstaff would inform the guest that the kitchen will be closing soon. At the very least, you could take the menus away if ordering is not possible. That being said, the prawn risotto sure looks great...but I guess we will never know.

The prefixed menu was steal for the money! The prefixed menu is available between 1 and 4 PM. For…read more15€ we got a three course meal. The food was very tasty and well presented . The place was very clean and designed in a modern style. The waiters spoke English and had a menu in both languages . So far it was the best meal on our trip in Spain.

This is another place I wish I could give half stars, in this case 4.5. On one hand, it's the…read more*exact* sort of quietly-pretentious cocktail bar experience I absolutely love, where all the drinks have been carefully curated with a bunch of small-batch ingredients, most of them, in this case, made in house. Each drink we ordered had an absolutely precisely perfect, super-unique presentation, and you could tell they were all carefully designed. I especially loved, while they don't advertise being a distillery, several cocktails even use their own in-house spirits, which if you ask about it and you're ordering a bunch of cocktails, you can just try a tasting flight for free. That was just super cool - you can buy bottles of some of them, too. Bit pricey at ~40 euro for a half-bottle, but they also distill some seriously unusual stuff, including one, used in their now-my-gold-standard bloody mary, distilled from a variety of mixed vegetables, the first time I'd *ever* seen a spirit distilled entirely from vegetables. On the other hand, with the exception of that bloody mary, all the drinks we had, especially for the price, were just... good. I loved the attention to detail on all of them, I could tell a lot of intention and effort went into each one, and again, it's always cool when you're drinking something that was distilled specifically by and for the bar you're at. But I also feel like I remember, mostly, a lot more about the presentation of the drinks and how much work went into some of the ingredients, than what most of them actually tasted like. On the third hand... that bloody mary. Seriously probably the best bloody mary I've had, as you'd expect from a place that hand-crafts literally everything including the base spirit. Assuming they still have it and it wasn't only on a temporary/seasonal menu... I'd go back for more of those, if I were ever back in Madrid. (If it was on a temporary/seasonal menu... too bad for me. I'll be savoring the half-bottle of the spirit I absolutely brought home with me, anyway! Though I still won't be making their bloody mary, which also used their own mix of several fresh-made stocks, for maximum flavor while also being totally clear still. That was super cool, and again, absolutely delicious.) Would I put it in my own personal "best bars anywhere on the planet" list? Probably not - that's a... lot of competition. Is it the best cocktail bar in Madrid? Also in my opinion, no, if I could only recommend one craft cocktail bar in Madrid, it'd be Salmon Guru. But if someone just asked me for recommendations for Madrid cause I'd been there, I could recommend any number of places, and they liked fancy, not-cheap craft cocktails? This would also go on the list, if that hypothetical person had time for two, as we did. Definitely do make a reservation, though. When we got there right when they opened, we were the only ones there... but that definitely didn't remain true.

Angelita had pretty good food, cocktails, and ambiance. I visited around 9 PM without a reservation…read moreand we got a seat in the basement bar. We had a few drinks and dinner. They serve the same food menu downstairs as well as upstairs. I liked the decor a lot; dark but comfortable. FOOD Smoked beef ham croquette - €3.5 each - pretty good croquettes Organic "ratatouille" with egg yolk and rosemary mayonnaise - €17.5 smaller portion - it was a little like ratatouille. It was not very attractive looking -- it was a vegetable mush. It didn't seem like a full dish on its own; it needed meat. Oxtail stew cannelloni with Sherry hollandaise - €10.5 - pretty good; get two if you are sharing They also gave us some olives (tasty) and then later some nuts (bad because they were unsalted / unseasoned). DRINKS Apio y Citricos - tequila with celery etc - interesting and tasty Resina y Sombra - mezcal with mushrooms etc - also interesting and tasty Moscow Mule Citronela - it was a moscow mule. not very interesting. Topinambo - whiskey, chicken skin etc They were all €13 or €14 We liked two of them a lot, less so the other two.

In Madrid, there are many pizza and pasta joints but very few truly Italian restaurants. By truly…read moreItalian, I mean not just in food but in feel too. However, in the small outskirt town of Pozuelo there exist a small Italian restaurant that, in my eyes, measures up to being truly Italian. This place is authentic in its food and decor. The restaurant is beautifully decorated in an old world authenticity. With seating both inside and outside, this place offers a venue that is warm and inviting. But, with very limited seating ensure you make a reservation. The staff is very friendly and speak English if you need some help. Both our waitress and waiter helped us decipher the menu and choose the perfect lunch entrees. My wife and I enjoyed every bite of each dish. We ordered the biscotti breadsticks, the pumpkin sauce with penne pasta, and a mushroom based sauce with egg noodles. All was exceptionally scrumptious and each dish is a shareable portion (and that's coming from an American who knows about large portions). The price was right too, by the way. For the two of us with all that food and drinks we paid €45. Overall, this is a great place. If you're looking for more than pizza and croquettes in Spain, this is the place you're looking for and need. Enjoy!

Everything was honestly exactly what I hoped. The appetizer was fantastic. The wine smooth. The…read moremeal... perfect. My mouth is watering just thinking about it.

Quick note before the review: This is not the same restaurant it used to be some years ago. Old…read more5-star reviews were well deserved by that time. The food's quality was terrible: - The pizza ingredients were very low quality and not well distributed. - We ordered a simple margherita and it didnt even contain basil leaves. - We ordered a different pizza with egg and bacon: it was also really bad. - Even the balsamic vinegar was bad. (They only had once of these thick vinegar bottles, and the cap was all dirty) - the focaccia was the worst: It has a thick section that was half baked, and the rest of it looked like a thin crispy bread/cookie For the staff: - The staff tried to avoid adding the discount from the reservation. After complaining, they fixed it, but you shouldn't need to complain to prevent being charged extra. - The staff was a bit lost on what was their menu. - They were polite at least The restaurant: - This used to be a different restaurant, one of the best pizza places in Madrid. About aprox. 2 years ago, the owner sold the restaurant and a different one was put in place of it. However, they decided to keep the name of the restaurants as well as all the excellent reviews it had in apps like yelp and trip advisor. While it could be a bit unfair to compare, as it is a completely different restaurant, in which only the name of it remained, the restaurant now has cheaper prices than the original one from years ago, but the ingredients are even cheaper, so in reality, the quality to prize ratio got a massive negative impact.

The reviews were very good so we were prepared to be pleased. The food was excellent and fresh…read more 6:30 is early for dinner in Europe so they were not busy-we were one of four occupied tables in a restaurant for about 20 tables. I don't like writing negative reviews but the management needs to know about our experience. We ordered two pasta dishes, a Caesar salad and a bottle of wine. When we were about done with the salad, one pasta dish arrived. After waiting about 20 minutes I asked the waitress if the second pasta dish was in the kitchen. She said no and offer us coffee and dessert. When we receive the bill, the second pasta was billed and then credited. There was absolutely no explanation. It changed the whole feeling of dining out and we left confused and unsatisfied, since we planned to take leftovers for our breakfast and now had none. Not mad, just disappointed.

Great ambience but biased and rude owner. Never welcomed us kept going to all the other tables…read moreexcept ours.Not sure if he does go by color - He needs to understand that folks who walk by n should not be judged just by looking at them. I would completely avoid this place at all costs. BTW - Food is just average.