VELÁZQUEZ.In this trattoria in the Salamanca district, classic cuisine reigns, with traditional dishes, very authentic and very well done
Velázquez Street has a curiosity that this chronicler has never found outside of Italy, nor in the United States, nor in Great Britain, nor in China, nor in Singapore, nor in Argentina, nor in Korea ...
Two Italian restaurants
,
fierce competitors in an upscale neighborhood
, situated next door.
Come on, you can go wrong if you go to the Ornella and enter the Numa Pompilio.
Well, it's unlikely because the latter - from the famous group of the Ten with Ten and company - has a facade as opulent as its interior, and the
Ornella
- from
the Pulcinella group
- is much more discreet.
And this is the one that we have approached, to verify that the frame is more attractive than it seems from the outside, and above all
if the kitchen is worth it.
The answer: yes
.
Ornella is like a return to those restaurants with
super-classic Italian cuisine
, that of the
traditional trattorie
, without any hint of Venetian, Emilian or Sardinian regionalism.
They are the Italian dishes of a lifetime
... but very authentic, very well done,
knowing what they have to know
.
Well, we will forgive you that the other day, at noon, you had run out of
linguine
: how can you finish the
linguine
at noon?
The fact is that they replaced them with spaghetti with pesto, and the important thing, which is the pesto,
was irreproachable
, pure basil, and the pasta was properly
al dente
.
So the reproach is minor.
We had started with two
antipasti
as classic as they were irreproachable: a
sirloin
carpaccio
with Parmesan and Modena vinegar, and a
vitello tonnato
as they like in Turin
, with the very tender veal and
the vigorous tuna sauce, just right
.
Popular cuisine, known around the world forever, but well resolved and with good ingredients.
The other main dish was also pasta, but without a doubt more
original and ambitious
: thick
paccheri
, just right
al dente
, with a
luxurious accompaniment
of fresh half lobster with which they went very well.
All this with
an unusual white wine in these parts
, but intense and concentrated enough for a meal with powerful flavors such as the
Fossa Mala Grave di Friuli 2018
, a wine from the northeast made with the grape that was called Friulian tocai until the Hungarians they complained bitterly, and that today is simply called Friulian.
Tasty and vigorous more than delicate.
Within this ultra-classic style, which took us back to the
trattorie
of the 80s, the
panna cotta
of the dessert could not fail, and
did not fail
, like the
ristretto
coffee
and the glass of
grappa
brandy
raised in oak.
A return to old favorites.
Friendly and attractive so many bad points marry, and are understood worse, with the most negative Ornella: A
service
sloppy
, painfully slow, full of errors and that clearly is in
need of a director -
at room did not see any ,
by that imposes efficiency and professionalism.
Truly unexpected and difficult to explain.
More information about Ornella
Velazquez, 18
-
91 138 53 01
Opening hours: Does not close
-
Official Website: https://www.ornellamadrid.com/
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