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Txirimiri

Txirimiri is a basque style restaurant that actually has 4 locations! Normally, I am not someone that really enjoys “chains” or restaurants that have so many locations because I think the taste of the food suffers, but this place is so different. It opened in 2003 and has been successful in providing great food and catering! You can sit down for a nice meal or enjoy pinchos/pintxos and raciones at the bar.  I visited the one in La Latina neighborhood, but there are 3 others in Salamanca, Retiro, and Moncloa-Rosales area.

I started off with foie plancha, mermelada de higos y sal Maldom.  Look how the foie glistens with delicious fat and if you look really closely you can see the large Maldom salt granules.   This is a perfect pinxto that satisfies all your taste buds. I loved the saltiness and sweetness contrast of the fig jam and Maldom salt. The foie was cooked perfectly! These pinxtos were really big too!

The next pinxto I tried was the solomillo de buey con cebolla caramelizada y pimiento del Piquillo. Thank goodnes for buey or ox. Buey is a castrated male bull that is fattened up so that I can indulge in.  The meat was tender and rich.  The salt on top nicely balanced the sweet caramelized onion and red pepper that was underneath that nice piece of meat. So far, Txirimiri is winning a spot in my heart!

Below is a falso risotto de verduras y bacalao. So basically, the best fake risotto with vegetables and cod ever.  I got this during Gastrofestival Madrid and so happy that I did.  It seems like a really simple dish of rice, vegetables, and fish, but Txirimiri does it right.  I’m looking forward to going back and trying their rissoto de setas con foie y Pedro Ximenez and rissoto negro de langostinos, sepia y cilantro.  Sounds so fancy and delicious!

I highly suggest Txirimiri if you want to try some flavors of the Basque Country. Pinchos are life!

Calle Humilladero, 6, 28005 Madrid

913 64 11 96

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Bar Cruz “La Casa de Las Navajas”

Bar Cruz, a family run business that is old school Spanish and where the camareros are actually hospitable, friendly, and they even smile at you! Located in the La Latina neighborhood of Madrid. I would say it is a must visit for the ambience and the great seafood! 

I thought this was really funny.  All of the things on the chalkboard are true.  They really didn’t laugh at my Spanish and even hooked it up with tapas with your vino and cañas.  For tapas, the boquerones were lightly battered and fried to perfection.  Also, they gave us some type of fried fish balls that were delicious as well! 

The place is called “La Casa de las Navajas.”  So that means you order a dozen of navajas, which literally translates into the word knives.  These are razor clams that are grilled.  Las navajas were fresh with the right amount of chewiness.  They were slightly salty, but slightly sweet and the squeeze of lemon just made it that much better.  What made these over the top is that they were grilled, which gave it that nice smokey touch.

Website

Calle de las Maldonadas, 1, 28005 Madrid

913 66 37 38