La Piperna, the best Italian in Madrid that has never been told

I met Cate at school when we were five years old but only a few months ago I discovered that her favorite dish was pasta. The reasons? Proteins are less fattening than hydrates and sirloins and hake than noodles. (At least that's what Montignac and Gema García Marcos say.)

He recommended Cate La Piperna (Infanta Mercedes, 98) because she had good references from her location on Calle Relatores. And he is right. I walk with Rosa from Colón to get hungry and we arrive at La Pipe

RNA with the purpose of eating a brontosaurus. Although I am always afraid to disagree with

(he prefers other Italians), I dare say it is the best Italian restaurant in Madrid. I intended to do a teetotaling Sunday. That is, without a drop of alcohol and with little joy. However, the letter of La Piperna only invited to secrete through the salivary glands, which is how it is said that the mouth makes you water.

To make it hungry (and non-alcoholic beer) we ordered some

(olives stuffed with pork, turkey and beef) that are then "emanated and served fried", which I do not know what it is, but they were delicious. I wish instead of a non-alcoholic beer we had had some dry martinis.

We also ordered beef tongue with

and homemade yogurt and a pickled fried ray and mint zucchini. Of course, at that time I already had two glasses of red wine pese/for my abstemious purposes on Sundays. However, the winery of La Piperna invites these weaknesses. Second we asked for a

which was out of letter. And some

, a dish "typical Genoese of the seventeenth century consisting of a caramelized onion sauce and served on a variety of artisanal pasta". And that's what the menu says, because at that point on Sunday the glasses of Italian wine were falling and I was declining. To top it off we take

For dessert, we insist on a very good tiramisu, although they say that the best are the

.

I would have liked to tell you what wine I had by the glass (because there were several bottles), but I settle for telling you that La Piperna is

despite other recommendations and trendy places. I just remember that everything was great. They blew us 60 euros per beard.