This is a monthly market near Lago station, where people of Madrid bring a shopping trolley to buy…read moretheir week's of fresh vegetables! Is it me, or do all the vendors sell the same vegetables? Broccoli and asparagus were everywhere. I love both. I didn't know what to expect at all, I thought it's a place of food. But it's mostly groceries: - lots of fresh vegetables - lots of people - wine!!! lots of wine vendors. And I mean LOTS - one muffin bakery - lots of bread bakeries! - snacking, nuts stuff - olive oil - cheese - jams! As you can see, if you come hungry, there is nothing you can eat. However the one-and-only muffin bakery sells freshly baked sweets and this freshly baked tuna pizza thing!!!! I LOVED IT :) If I lived in Madrid, I would come here. I visited at 11AM and it was quite busy! I originally thought the 1€ was a required entrance fee, but no you just walk in for free.

Dia de Mercado is an excellent local foods market held on the first Saturday of every month. Buy a…read morewine glass for 1€ in the entrance and you are welcome to sample a great variety of Spanish wines along with olive oils, meats, olives, cheeses, chocolates, cakes, muffins, pastries, honey, vegetables, etc. The market is open from 10AM-3PM. It's worth it to get there early as the market favourites are sure to sell out! After you've made your way through the market, take your food finds down to the lake for a nice picnic!

Attentive all Vegans. This is the spot for all day brunch. Be warned they are a hot spot with…read morelimited seating which may mean a wait. There was only one waitress but she was working pretty hard to take care of all the tables. Everything on the menu is vegan and was very tasty. Would recommend

Probably my favorite smoothie/juice place I have been to in Madrid so far! The place is rather…read moresmall- there are only two bars to sit at. There are probably 12-14ish chairs total. There are Spanish and English menus to order from. What I ordered: I got the curry chickpea wrap and the devolución juice. They were reasonably priced for what they were. The wrap came with mixed root chips. The wrap had a nice curry flavor, but it was light and not overwhelming. The juice was very beet-y, but tasted sweet as well. I will be back sometime to try one of their smoothie bowls!

Really enjoyed Mercado de San Miguel, even if it's the more touristy food market in Madrid. Came…read morelater in the evening. Must gets include - jamón ibérico from Puesto Carrasco Ibéricos - olives and vermut from The Hour of the Vermouth - wine from Pinkleton & Wine - codfish from La Casa del Bacalao There's also a Spanish omelet vendor but it was okay. Great energy in the market. Can be difficult to find a seat at a table but there's plenty of standing counters along the perimeter.

So this was one of the places everyone recommended we had to stop at while we were in Madrid for a…read morecouple days on our way to Portugal, and one of the most disappointing. Don't get me wrong - they do indeed have a whole bunch of food vendors that all looked extremely good. Some of them were tourist-priced (ok, a majority of them were tourist-priced), but none of them looked *bad*, just not *necessarily* worth the price, when you could go any number of places nearby and get food as good, for cheaper. But there were definitely some hidden gems, including one absolutely wonderful tapas place that we ordered a bunch of little tostas from, of all different sorts, that we were absolutely impressed by and happy with all of. And of course, the vendor I had originally been most excited about, La Hora del Vermut, which does indeed offer both very inexpensive, great "house" vermouth, and very affordable fancy vermouths. I would've loved to hang out at a bar like that... if I could do so and also *move*. See, the thing is... this market is absolutely not big enough for all its accolades. As Yogi Berra may or may not have ever said, "No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded." At least I probably wouldn't ever go back there... we could barely hear to order tapas at the tapas place, and good luck finding a place to eat if you're not taking it to go. Good luck actually making it to one of the vendors further away from the entrance, either. It was an absolute madhouse, so we ordered a bunch of tostas at once, I braved the insanity to get a couple glasses of vermouth and met my wife outside the actual market to eat them on the steps. And that was the *off* season - if it's like that in January, I could only imagine it in May! Great vendors, but as a market, they really need better crowd management / foot traffic control.