Living in Madrid is synonymous with seeing it in a perpetual change of coat. And the new trendy restaurants help this process of mutation. Great luxury hotels spring up where there used to be gold-buyingstores -see Canalejas with its respective gastronomic bet-, market stalls now house innovative restaurants, and neighborhoods where to go to eat the latest culinary hit are multiplying.
Farah
Farah is the Mediterráneo restaurant that Heba Kharouf opened in December 2023 after leaving advertising to devote herself to cooking. In the middle of San Francisco, almost reaching the basilica of San Francisco el Grande, the now chef wants to unite the Arab cultural ties with those of here through recipes that, without being the same as ours, do have the same ingredients, such as chickpeas and eggplants. This common ground has made Farah one of the trendiest restaurants to eat healthy and be seen.
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📍 Carrera de San Francisco, 12 (Downtown)
Pei House +
Dumplings coffee and kimchi: these are the maxims of Casa Pei+. The lines between a coffee shop and a restaurant are blurred here, because its coffee menu is equal to or longer than its food menu. The combination may not be the most usual, but it works, thanks in no small part to the vision of Guiyue Pei and her mother, Junghwa Park, who cooks every dumpling, wonton and soup for sale.
The place transmits, in its simplicity and modernity, the affection that its owners have put into this business that combines Korean and Chinese gastronomy with Western taste (for coffee).
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📍 Calle Espronceda, 34 (Ríos Rosas)
Section
Four years after opening Mo de Movimiento, one of the busiest restaurants in Chamberí, Proyectos Conscientes, the company founded in 2018 by Felipe Turell and Javier Antequera to redefine the concept of leisure and promote responsible consumption, have bet on Tramo. This Prosperity restaurant has the same principles as its first project, where more than the cuisine, the focus is on design, self-sufficiency, regeneration and social inclusion.
On this occasion, the curious layout of the space was created by the architectural firm SelgasCano and designer Andreu Carulla.
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📍 Eugenio Salazar Street, 56 (Prosperidad)
La Llorería
A famous singer said that rock would never go out of fashion because it is not a fashion. That same quote could well be applicable to La Llorería. Is it fashionable? It was popular as soon as it opened and all it has done is maintain the level. Hold it until you receive one Sol Repsol.
what can be said about the Llorería that has not already been said? A little: a rotating menu that adapts to the season, a few key recurring elements and a lot of young talent eager to have a good time (and to really have a good time).
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📍Callede San Lorenzo, 4 (Chueca)
Circolo Popolare
The Picasso Tower restaurant behind which is the Big Mamma group. On paper they are two claims and in practice, too.
It is the first restaurant to open inside the iconic Picasso Tower (designed, we recall, by the same architect who conceived the Twin Towers). And managing what they serve is the group responsible for hits such as Bel Mondo or Villa Capri. That’s all there is to it.
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📍PlazaPablo Ruiz Picasso, 1 (Castellana)
This article was written jointly by Alberto del Castillo and Elena French.