New season, new restaurants. In Madrid gastronomic openings are a constant, but when September arrives, with that feeling of a new course and almost a new year, the culinary offer multiplies. Pizzas, Korean recipes, vegetarian and a trend that abounds more and more: small markets with different menus in the same restaurant.
Biang Biang
A single noodle takes up the whole plate and the whole craw, that’s how big it is. Actually this Chinese noodle restaurant is already well known by the palates of Madrid, three years ago it opened its first restaurant in Chueca. But now it’s back in the word of mouth (and in all of TikTok’s gastro accounts) thanks to its new opening in Mercado de Vallehermoso. As a specialized restaurant, what it does it embroiders, and indeed its handmade noodles are something difficult to find elsewhere.
📍 Location: calle de Pelayo, 8 (Chueca) and Mercado de Vallehermoso (Chamberí).
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Fair
Feria is the gourmetization and modernization of the memories (especially the flavors) of your town’s festivities. It is a restaurant yes, but it has adapted a market or fish market format, with different stalls specialized in Donostia-style pinchos, products of the sea or of the land -as they have defined it-, cocktails or sweets, including cotton candy.
Once you have chosen, ordered and picked up your dish or pincho (highly recommended the octopus and the Iberian pen nugget), you can sit down in any of the two levels of the beautiful place. It is illuminated by a central skylight that gives a feeling of square, and helps to create the atmosphere of Feria.
Reservations are not allowed, to bring back some of the spontaneity that has been lost in the city, but they do allow dogs. All hits.
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Location: Plaza de Tirso de Molina, 2 (Centro)
Market at Edition
The stairs of The Madrid Edition are almost another attraction in the capital, as well as its baroque façade and the Peruvian restaurant on its terrace, Oroya, one of the most beautiful in Madrid. If all this had not been enough to attract you here, they are opening a new restaurant and bar that also imitates a market, but in aesthetic version . The trend is clear. Different atmospheres, with different culinary proposals in the same space.
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Location: Plaza de Celenque, 2 (Centro)
Masa Vins
Is Trafalgar street the new Ponzano? Perhaps, but a somewhat more relaxed and alternative version, as confirmed by the recent opening of Masa Vins, a wine bar that was born in Barcelona and now opens in Madrid. Its menu consists of natural wines from small producers and thoughtful dishes, seasonal and perfect for alternating between glasses. All with an informal and very photographable air.
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Location: calle Trafalgar, 22 (Chamberí)
Pizza Pronto
Alma Nomad Bakery has been the fetish bakery for those who know about pastries in this city since 2021. Now its owners, Timi Argyelan and Joaquín Escrivá, have opened Pizza Pronto a few meters from Plaza de Olavide and the success has been instantaneous. For now, their stupendous honeycombed doughs can only be ordered for lunchtime, although in the future they will open in the evenings as well.
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Location: Calle de Sta. Feliciana, 4 (Chamberí)
Viva la vida
Viva la vida is the vegan taqueria that replaces Viva Burger, one of the first meatless burger restaurants in Madrid. In spite of this change of menu and name, they still maintain their strong veggie burgers that made them famous, although now the protagonism is taken by other dishes.
They advertise their oxtail as the star dish, although there is no bull or meat among the ingredients, but rather yaca, a tropical fruit that when cooked resembles larded meat. Texmex food now occupies the bulk of the offerings, with classics such as tacos al pastor, guacamole and nachos.
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Location: costanilla de San Andrés, 16 (La Latina)
Pury
Pury is the new trendy Korean restaurant, and this is not a trivial adjective, it is a fact that confirms how difficult it is to get a reservation, even between daily, partly because they only have 9 tables. Pury in Korean means root, which already gives clues that their cuisine is traditional, without frills. The kimchi is not lacking in its different formats, although the tortilla version is more familiar to the local eye and palate. If you like it spicy, you’re spoiled for choice.
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Location: Mostenses Market (Ricardo León street, 2).