We ate our last dinner in Madrid at Cornucopia, a lovely, artsy restaurant. I really liked the…read moredecor. It was modern with lots of contemporary art pieces decorating the dining area. It seemed like a trendy restaurant, but the food we were served was pretty traditional. We began with a vegetable soup and bread (delicious!), followed by salad and our entree. Mine was vegetables and potatoes. (Not my favorite meal, but at least there weren't any traces of meat in it!) Dessert was strawberry ice cream. (Nothing special). I wasn't that impressed with the food (except for the soup), but it could be that we just had a set menu. I'm sure the rest of their items are good. The service was wonderful. We had a large group of kids and adults and the staff was patient and friendly to us, which is always appreciated. I would definitely go back to try something outside of the pre-set menu!

This food is not edible. We have eaten here twice on tours and both times the food was…read moreunrecognizable. Service is average.

What a neighborhood gem…read more Quaint little place with amazing food and good service. One of the best Iberico I've ever had. The risotto with boletus was to die for. Tuna tartar was superb. The cogollos salad was good and the steak too. The pana cotta and the apple cake were really good and the brownie was decent. The prices also pretty decent given the quality of food and service. Highly recommended. Cheers

So good!! Excellent service!!! Ask for a dark sugar…read moremojito and enjoy!! Great tapas selection and drinks. Beautiful place, easy to find. Quite neighborhood gem! Not that many care, but you can pay w your Amex card (no foreign transaction fee).

Yum!! If you like…read moreramen, this is your place. I got the ramen with squid and was surprised by how much I liked it (as someone who's never tried squid). The bowl is a generous serving and also had assorted vegetables and fish. The broth was the right mix of salty as well. Q rico. The cheesecake-like dessert was amazing and yuzu- a citric fruit from Asia (shout out to my new Spanish friends for describing my food to me!). The chef is personable, as are the rest of the staff. The atmosphere is intimate and glowing and I truly enjoyed eating here.

Went here on a Friday night as a party of four around 11:30 pm for drinks and dessert. Great…read moreatmosphere as you walk in, nice music and most tables were full. We are greeted by the hostess who took us to a table downstairs, which has slightly more of a club feel than than the upstairs. We are seated and promptly met by a waiter who brought us a drink menu. This is where some of the issues started relating to the service. It took about 20 minutes for the waiter to come back and get our order. After looking through the menu, the waiter offered to customize cocktails based on what we liked. Great, we thought! So we went around and let him know our preferences and ordered two desserts, the chocolate ganache cake with tangerine sorbet and carrot cake. We received one of the cocktails about 10 minutes later, a gin fizz type drink that was very delicious. We waited patiently for the other three drinks and dessert but after another 20 minutes, still nothing. The waiter came back and explained that the bar keep had forgotten about the rest of our order. About 10 minutes later we got everything else which was great. All the cocktails were delicious and it was a great spot for dessert. The group as a whole preferred the chocolate ganache cake more than the carrot cake, but the cocktails and atmosphere rounded out a great night. If it wasn't for the service issues, this place would have gotten 5 stars from us, but waiting for drinks for over 30 minutes was a bit ridiculous.

Saw the positive reviews on Yelp and noticed this place was a 5 minute walk from our hotel - I was…read moreSOLD! Was not disappointed. Walked into a clean and welcoming dining room. Staff very friendly and made great recommendations. The owner came over several times to check on us and allowed us to try a traditional soup dish on the house. We loved the croquettes, the tuna tartar and the squid/veg dish! Staff was pleasant and patient since our Spanish is limited. Highly recommend for authentic eats!

Looking for a place to eat on our last night in Madrid, Yelp came to the rescue. Even though there…read morewere not many reviews or photos, my gut told me to give this place a try. This was just a few minutes of walking distance from our Sonder suite. After shopping for 6 hours, we were famished. We walked in around 7:30pm. They were kind enough to turn on the lights up for us in the dining room and seat us (dinner usually starts at 8-10pm in Spain). Let me just say that service was a class act from start to finish. Here is what we ordered: My son: I am going to have the Cod Tripe. What are you ordering, mom? Me: the Oxtail Traditional My son: Oooh, I will have some of yours too. Me: of course you are. My son: you can have one of my tripe. Please know that most places will ask if you want bread. They will charge you for it. My son used the bread to soak up the Cod Tripe Soup. I loved the chickpeas and I am happy my son got to have tripe before leaving Spain. It was on his bucket list of things to eat here. Our waiter came by with complimentary gazpacho and omg, what a delightful treat. It was perfect on a hot summer day. It had bits of potatoes and pears. I wanted a whole bowl. I think this place is a hidden gem!! Surprised that there are not more reviews. The food was absolutely delicious. It had that homemade touch! Don't forget to order dessert. We got the Pineapple Presented in 3 Textures. It had coconut milk and sago on one side and cinnamon crumbles on the other. The pineapple had sprinkles of salt. The flavor profiles tickled my tongue. Perfect on this 88 degree day. Truly worth a visit!

Great casual neighborhood restaurant in Madrid. For those that want to get off the beaten path, we…read moreloved this place. Very reasonable prices, including their wine list.

This was my second time here. This time I wasn't impressed. The service was abysmal. The starters…read morewere okay...pretty and tasty. My husband liked his dish although it was a batter-laden over cooked flank steak with egg and served with fries. I got tagliatelle. It was over cooked, overly buttered. The sauce was too sweet and scarce. I had 3 or 4 bites before I threw in towel. Dessert was adequate. We ordered a bottle of wine with our meal. The waitress poured without letting us taste beforehand. Again poor service. I won't be back.

Maybe my best meal in Madrid! The categories are wrong on this Yelp page - I'd describe it as…read morebrunch/Mediterranean/Spanish/coffee shops/cafe. This is obviously a huge spot for breakfast/brunch and the place was packed the whole time I was there on a Sunday. I came with a big group and service was great. Ambiance is also super chic. I started with a latte, then tried: + Patatas bravas + Broken eggs with sweet potato, parmesan and truffle + Grilled artichokes, served with pumpkin + Tuna tartare + Oxtail croquettes + Carrot cake + Ice cream pot The highlights were the tuna tartare, which was one of the best I've ever had, and the croquettes. Everything was awesome though!

The service was fantastic, and all of the servers were friendly and spoke very good English. Chic,…read moreand a perfect spot for a date in such a romantic city. We came here for drinks and tapas on a Friday night before meeting up with friends and got drinks: - Tom Collins - Margarita Paired with fresh fish based dishes: - Tuna tartar - Salmon Sashimi The tartar was amazing and the best I've had in Madrid (I've had it 3 times). Salmon sashimi was beautifully presented but it was not as soft and marinated as much i would have liked. My biggest gripe with this meal, and it is a small one. Is that the Tom Collins was not served in a Collins glass and could really use more ice. The drink was not as refreshing, and it was really very salty for my taste. Maybe it's a cultural thing, but otherwise everything else was fantastic.

One of our favorite meals while we visited Spain! We stumbled upon it by accident & really enjoyed…read moreit. We liked the majority of the items on the menu. Service was friendly and accommodating. We had the burrata, potatoes and the fried green tomatoes. We were so happy we stumbled across this restaurant!

With a relatively early bus ride down the freeway to Andalucia facing us the next morning--and with…read moreour stubborn refusal (up to this point) to abide by a Spanish dining schedule--we were looking for a good early-evening dinner option near our hotel over near the Callao metro stop. Like at 7pm, which we figure is barely the end of lunch time in Madrid. Or maybe a time at which 95-year-old Spaniards look for the Early Bird Specials. Maricastaña fit the bill, with a menu apparently available all day. At this hour, most everybody else at the restaurant was having either coffee and dessert or pre-dinner drinks. Except for us--and these two madcap young British gals at a neighboring table, who had a hankering for burgers and Coca-Colas (WTF?). We sat at the bar, where the ladies on duty didn't seem all that enthused about serving dinner at that hour. But they did so without fuss, and the prices were very reasonable given the food's high quality and the urbane feel of Maricastaña: Croquettes with ham and pumpkin squash (?) were a tasty starter, if nothing to get to excited about. But the marinated tuna with strawberry and sprouts, which sounded like a bit of reach, was ingenious and delicious; I only wish there had been more of it. We shared a main, which was hanging skewers of "solomillo ibérico" and veggies; at first, the dim light fooled us into thinking we were getting just pork, but we soon realized we were getting beef as well. Both meats were succulent, wonderfully seasoned, and perfectly cooked. Maricastaña has a lowlit, casual, comfortable ambience. (Very manageable sound levels at this early hour.) Apparently, not all that long ago Malasaña--especially this section of it--was gritty and counter-cultural, but this restaurant had the pleasant, conventional feel you'd expect in just about any urban and urbane (and white-collar) neighborhood around the First World.

Clean atmosphere, quaint farmish decor,- Great menu of the…read moreday. 15.90€ (weekend) 13.90€ weekday 3 course meal. Large selection of authentic food. Service was good, had lots of locals, busy at 3:30p Good meals and would recommend here for inexpensive tasty filling meals.

Having discovered the tremendous value that is possible in the menu del dia lunch the day before,…read morewe sought out another one for a post-museum lunch and struck paydirt again. This time, we dropped into Terra Mundi after several hours at the Prado, which is just a few blocks away. We strolled into an empty restaurant at 1:30 pm and thought that maybe this wasn't such a great choice after all. By the time we left a couple of hours later, the restaurant was packed and bustling, and justifiably so. (Almost needless to say, we never did adapt to the Spanish dining clock during a 10-day visit to the country.) Terra Mundi offers a permanent menu del dia with about ten mains, most of which clocked in at around 12 euro. (A couple of them were a one or two euro more.) There was also a daily menu, which we opted for: I went with the potaje with spinach and cod, which was rich, hearty, and bold, and a grilled loin of tuna (cooked a really nice medium rare), which came with a fresh green salad. A euro more got us a glass of wine each. The wife had a salmon tartare as her first course, which was a winner. (Her tuna was somewhat overcooked, though.) Our main server was delightful. We speak poor Spanish--or I should say "spoke," because the fleeting benefits of our pre-trip language cramming mean that our Spanish language skills have already faded into the range of "thoroughly inept"--and she spoke almost no English, but service couldn't have been better. At least not until the very end, when we just couldn't get our hands on a check for something like 45 minutes. A charming street-level space that tastefully balances the modern and traditional.