Make a reservation! This was exactly what we needed after hours at the Prado - cozy yet upscale,…read moreauthentic but not pretentious. Servers spoke perfect English and helped guide us with food and wine. The bread was seriously incredible - this is the stuff you'll pay $12/loaf for in LA. Yummy roasted potatoes are brought to the table as soon as you're seated. Loved the leeks and the veal pasta. The fish of the day was a tad too fishy but that's more of my personal taste.

This was the BEST meal I've ever had!…read more We stopped by on a Friday evening for dinner in which they told us they were full so we made a reservation for the next weekend. (Reservations can be made in person or over the phone only - while we were eating, I saw the phone ringing off the hook and their reservation book being added to.) When it was time for our reservation we were greeted and seated by a nice man who turned out to be the chef/owner himself, Marcos Gil. He went through each item on the menu with us and suggested wine pairings for our selections. We ordered the leeks, salmon, veal cheek, and venison, a daily special. They were all incredible! Each dish was not overly sophisticated and let the main component truly speak for itself. We could genuinely taste the craft and care that went into each dish. The dessert was no exception. Despite being a modest, unassuming restaurant, the space was intimate and inviting and the service was excellent along with the food. Worth more than any three-star Michelin meal any day.

It's not fusion, but it's something more than that. Petit Comité in Madrid serves traditional…read moreSpanish cuisine with a French influence. The chef selects only the finest quality ingredients, which are native to the cuisine, to create unique yet authentic dishes which surely satisfy. My friend and I were strolling through the Chueca neighborhood when he mentioned lunch at Petit Comité. I loved the way the restaurant was designed, and could sense the comfortable, relaxing atmosphere as soon as I entered. The black tile bricks that make up the bar and the exposed ventilation add an industrial feel, while the natural brick walls and light wood floors warm things up. We split a starter of Petit Comité croquettes, each homemade, and we opted for one of each of the trio offering, including boletus edulis mushroom, monkfish and shrimps, and bleu cheese with walnuts. The croquettes were crispy, the texture was excellent, and each one had a distinct flavor. He shared a taste of his salmon tartare starter with me, which had tomato concassé, avocado, scallion and escarole. The fish tasted so fresh, and the creamy avocado and acidic tomato paired perfectly. In exchange, I let him sample my mushroom salad with duck ham, foie mi cuit, apple, pine nuts and balsamic vinegar, which was also incredible. For my main lunch, I enjoyed grilled squid with caramelised red onions, romescu sauce and potato chips. My friend opted for a duck breast fillet with cranberry sauce and a celery bouquet. The presentation on both dishes was beautiful, and I was amazed that the flavor was even more amazing! We finished our meal by sharing broken Idiazabal cheesecake coated with fig paste and Patxaran candy. It was unlike anything else I've ever had and truly magnificent. I highly recommend Petit Comité!

Love love love this place. Love everything about this place…read more I can't decide which fact is the best about this place.. Staffs were very very friendly, foods were extremely delicious, and the interior was perfect. Please try salmon tartar it's the best.

Find of the trip so far! Fede crepe was the best & served flaming hot. Nice clean French-lite…read moreboutiquie decor. Looking forward to breakfast tomorrow....

food was absolutely delicious! i ordered the desi crepe and added nutella! this is one of the best…read morecrepes i had in my life! definitely recommend if your craving a low cost sweet treat. the service was quick and fast! the ambiance was cute and calm. would def go again!

L'Artisan Furansu Kitchen is an unexpected find in the culinary landscape of Madrid, as it reaches…read morean intersection between Japanese cooking techniques and contemporary French dishes. With a mission to showcase the harmonious relationship between the two cuisines, L'artisan Furansu Kitchen creates a unique menu each weekday, relative to the goods available in the market. This ensures each dish is always at its freshest and crafted using the finest ingredients possible. With three different dining areas to choose from, including the intimate castiza for date nights, and the bar area which serves European and Japanese cocktails and libations, my friend and I opted for the room which allowed us to see our food being prepared in the kitchen. Exciting to watch the chef's in action as they prepared our lunch, and our server was helpful in explaining the menu and the dining options. We shared a starter of mackerel tartare, with green onion, ginger and aubergine caviar. I hadn't tasted anything like this before, and it was a great way to set the tone of our lunch. The subtle flavors of ginger and green onion perfectly reflected the Japanese influence. The soft pork belly was slow cooked for 12 hours, and the sweet soy sauce complimented the tender meat. My friend ordered the oven-roasted butterfish, marinated in saikyo miso and she couldn't stop raving about it. I enjoyed a rack of lamb served with yucca fritters. The yucca fritters were something completely new and exciting, and a great take on a root vegetable. The lamb was meaty, juicy, and just right. Dessert included rhubarb crumble with custard cream and green tea ice cream with mochi and dorayaki. We couldn't decide which we liked better, because both were so delicious, so we just shared them and ate both! L'artisan Furansu Kitchen is not culinary fusion, but a symphony of flavors from two important cuisines.

Their menu apparently changes a lot, nevertheless it's suuuuper tasty! Not to mention a very…read morefriendly and family like staff. I will definitely be marking this in my favorites.

Popped in here when we saw rain coming and I'm so glad we did! Has a really lovely meal! The inside…read moreis wonderful and great atmosphere. Our waiter was also fantastic and so attentive! I ordered the cheese board and some tacos and I loved both! I thought they were delicious and so much food! I thought the prices were very fair! Left so full and happy!

Great shop but no longer a restaurant. Just fyi !…read more The products for sale there look great though!

Now this is a truly unique spot--definitely one of a kind. They even have a "fix menu," which adds…read moreto the fun and originality. In my opinion, they're very generous with their portions, the food is excellent, and the service is great. I highly, highly recommend giving it a try. You won't be disappointed! Excellent price

This is one of my favorite chains. The menu is straight forward: you get a salad, followed by steak…read more(you pick how you want it done) and it is served in the middle of the table over a small fire with their famous sauce and unlimited fries. They have a drink menu, wine menu, and dessert menu, otherwise you have one lunch option! Service is always great and it is a wonderful spot to stop by for lunch or dinner that will deliver consistent, yummy meals.

foie excellent…read more Onion soup - good taste Escargot- terrible ,no taste Duck - dry and chuii Service good but very slow

A wonderful French restaurant in Madrid (there aren't many). It offers a very reasonably priced…read moreTable d'Hote at just under €20. Small, only eight tables, you probably need a reservation most days. It's quiet by Spanish standards and the service is personal and prompt. It's improbably located in a suburban residential neighbourhood and you may require some help to find it.

This place is as good as it gets for service, food, drinks and ambiance! I LOVED going to Paris…read moreAvenue so much on my trip to Madrid that I went there nearly every night after discovering it! I tried their white and red sangria-both amazing. Their mohitos will set the bar so high that you won't be satisfied with a mohito from anywhere else and their tapas are just as delicious. The place is owned and operated by a lovely lady named Jemma who will be the smiling face you see bustling from table to table every evening, bringing joy with her yummy creations. My cousin and I had such a great time meeting her and the other staff (Josep!). If you want the perfect place to sit outside, sip a delicious beverage, people watch and get served like royalty, you have found THE place. And did I mention they give complimentary olives with all drinks? Just go!

From the owner: Desayunos, Brunch, Tapas Pinchos, Raciones, Vinos, Cervezas…read morePanadería y Bollería Francesa, Repostería

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.

When you think of a classic tourist trap, Casa Lucio is the perfect definition. Don't be fooled by…read morethe pictures of presidents and celebrities on the walls. We came expecting the very best of Spanish cuisine, and instead got a major disappointment. The potato salad was drenched in mayonnaise, completely overpowering the other ingredients. The entrecôte with fries was even worse--the meat was full of greasy strings, nothing like the clean, tender cut it's supposed to be. The fries were poorly cut, oily, and limp instead of crisp. Even the padrón peppers, which are usually impossible to get wrong, were flavorless. The bread was stiff and hard to bite. Service was just okay, but the atmosphere felt rushed and uncomfortable, as the place is overcrowded with tourists chasing the restaurant's reputation. In short: overrated, overpriced, and absolutely not worth the hype.

I was on a search for restaurants loved by the locals. Casa Lucio was bursting with people waiting…read morefor a table so of course, I knew I wanted to try it. They said reservations only but we were able to snag 2 seats at the bar. The food was good. Not the best during my trip but good nonetheless. I think I did not order what they're known for however I still enjoyed my meal.