The rain returns to Madrid this weekend – and this time, for real – starting Thursday. And the important thing is that there are better shelters than staying at home watching your washing machine spin. In Puerta del Ángel, a neighborhood that has been consolidating itself for some time as one of the new gastronomic spots in the city (and where places like Gozar have opened an unstoppable melon), they are celebrating Tapa del Ángel 2025: a route of fifteen bars, fifteen tapas, and a perfect excuse to go out and get wet in the transition from bar to bar.
From April 10 to 13, fifteen independent restaurateurs in the neighborhood have teamed up to offer a tapa for 4.5 euros (tapa + drink) or for 3.5 euros for the tapa alone.
The best part? If you complete the whole route and get all the stamps, you can participate in the draw for a prize worth more than 400€: gift vouchers, gastro experiences, bag-in-box of homemade vermouth, wine and other joys to continue surviving April.
The steps are simple: pick up your card at any of the participating establishments, stamp it in all of them, hand it in at Gozar (Calle Caramuel, 19) and cross your fingers. On April 30 an innocent hand will choose the winner. If it’s not you, at least you will have visited one of the most fashionable neighborhoods of the moment, tapa by tapa.
Which establishments are participating and what tapas do they offer?
- La Madriguera – Focaccia’s Bull (stewed oxtail focaccia) – 📍Calle Doña Urraca 26
- Spanish Pizza – Voy camino a Soria (bacon and roasted sweet potato montadito) – 📍Calle Doña Urraca 22
- La Moñoña – Cazón Saamurai (marinated dogfish saam with kimchi mayonnaise) – 📍Calle Caramuel 11
- La Desahuciada – Ochío de jabalí guisado (typical dough from Úbeda stuffed with stewed wild boar) – 📍Calle Doña Urraca 15 (Tirso de Molina Market)
- Bar Luis – Croquetón de jamón ibérico (homemade Iberian ham croquette) – 📍Calle Santa Úrsula 18
- Sabores Patagónicos – La Tapa Criolla (matambrito with creole sauce and mustard and honey emulsion) – 📍Puente de Segovia 1
- Cuxta – Calpeña de pollo picoso (spicy chicken Cuxta style) – 📍Calle Doña Urraca 15 (Tirso de Molina Market)
- La Quinta – Chipasan (Argentinean chipá stuffed with ham and cheese) – 📍Calle Juan Tornero 41
- Picar by Gozar – Hampao Sureño (hampao stuffed with Zhanjiang style meat with mayonnaise and Andalusian spices) – 📍Calle Doña Urraca 15 (Tirso de Molina Market)
- La Siesta – La siesta continues… (homemade stew, loin and mashed potato) – 📍Calle Caramuel 27
- Cuarto y Mitad – Caballa madurada (matured mackerel over aguachile) – 📍Calle Doña Urraca 15 (Tirso de Molina Market)
- Pandome – Jamofa (ham slice, parmesan cream and truffle)
- El Malamé – Ceviche Tico (Costa Rican style ceviche) – 📍Calle Doña Urraca 15 (Tirso de Molina Market)
- Barril del Chavo – Asadito al estilo paraguayo (Paraguayan style meat skewer) – 📍Calle Caramuel 10
- Gozar Neotaberna Castiza – Bocadillo castizo-taiwanés (gua bao stuffed with braised bacon, Gozar’s brava sauce, spring onions and fresh herbs) – 📍Calle Caramuel 19