Genuine, refreshing and with a sweet touch.
Tigernuts, water and sugar are the ingredients of horchata, a summer drink
of Valencian origin
, especially from
Alboraya
(Alicante), the cradle of this tuber whose cultivation was established by the Arabs a dozen centuries ago.
However, you don't have to travel there to have
a great horchata
.
Here are five establishments in Madrid - presented in
alphabetical order
- where, in addition to making it in an artisan way, it is a vice.
Alboraya.
Alboraya
41 years ago, José Luis Monrós and Fina Galán founded a horchatería in Calle de Alcalá that is now run by their children,
Celia and José Luis
, and which has a second headquarters in Plaza de Felipe II.
Their tigernut is self-grown and comes from
the fields they own in Alboraya
.
Once they arrive in Madrid, they make up to 350 liters of horchata a day during the hottest months.
And, although they also prepare meringue, black and white milk, ice cream, barley water, slushies, smoothies, artisan pastries, horchata is the
queen of the house
.
In addition to serving it all year round, they
"celebrate" it
every first Wednesday in July giving away an horchata with fartons, an inseparable companion of this tigernut drink.
Prices: 2.50 euros (small), 3.10 euros (medium) and 3.60 euros (large).
Addresses:
Alcalá, 125 / Plaza de Felipe II, 26.
The Alps. © LOS ALPES ICE CREAM
The Alps
This house
founded in 1950
, in Chamberí, is dedicated to the manufacture and sale of artisan ice cream (
Italian style
), sorbets, sweets, cakes and, of course, tigernut horchata, a
drink that has been shipped since 1975
. Quality raw material is the starting point in all its elaborations:
seasonal fruits
for its sorbets, Valrhona chocolates for its ice creams ... and
Valencian tigernuts
for its horchata. They prepare it every day in their workshop, following the traditional recipe: the famous Valencian tuber, water and sugar. And, to accompany this horchata with
DO Chufa de Valencia
, some rich fartons that they make in the house.
Prices: 2.30 euros (small), 3.70 euros (medium) and 5 euros (large).
Addresses
: Arcipreste de Hita, 6 / Agapito Martínez, 6 (Torrelodones) / Camilo José Cela, 16 (Las Rozas).
Kiosk of Horchata Miguel and José.
Kiosk of Horchata Miguel and José
Miguel and José Manuel García López
are the fourth generation of a family that has been making horchata for the people of Madrid for more than 100 years, always with Valencian tigernut, water and sugar. It all started with the
great-grandparents
, Francisco Guilabert and Francisca Segura, who from
Crevillente
(Alicante) opened a water
bottle
in Cedaceros street
in 1910
. Later, his grandparents María and Manuel moved him in
front of Las Cortes
until the Civil War broke out. Once this was finished, the kiosk settled in the Plaza del Carmen and, since
1944, it has reigned in Narváez
. Open from April to October, when the heat rages, they usually sell between
80 and 100 liters a day
, "It depends on how the street is. Lately it has gone down, with
so many terraces
, people have forgotten a bit about us," says José Manuel.
This panorama has little to do with that of the
60s of the 20th century
, when Madrid was full of "aguaduchos and kiosks, almost all of them opened by people from Alicante. There were about 300 like ours," recalls José Manuel.
Despite the passage of time,
77 years
, the offer has not changed.
"We continue with the three drinks that we have always sold:
tiger nut horchata, slush lemon and barley water
, a traditional drink that, unfortunately, is falling into oblivion," concludes José.
Prices: 2.20 euros (small), 3 euros (medium) and 4 euros (large).
Address: Narváez, 8.
Mama Elba.ERICKDONY
Mom Elba
In this ice
cream
parlor
specialized in artisan
, bio, vegan and gluten-free
ice
cream
, one of the richest horchatas in the capital is dispatched, despite not being made by itself.
They do not have a workshop, therefore, they dedicate much of their time to the
search for products
"that are cared for with affection, both in their production process and in their respect for the environment," explains
Elba Vallejo
, who opened the first local Mama Elba.
"We wanted a local
workshop
so that the horchata was
as natural as possible
, without preservatives or strange ingredients for its conservation. We have achieved it at
Horchata Casa Diego
, a Villaverde company that makes it in an artisan way with tigernuts from Alboraya; a touch of sugar and water from Madrid, one of the highest quality in all of Spain ", adds Elba.
Prices: 2.50 euros (small), 3.50 (large) and 4.50 (half a liter).
Addresses:
Cea Bermúdez, 29 and Ruda, 15.
Oroxata.
Oroxata
Classic horchatería that has had several names (WM,
La Fábrica de Siempre
, Artesanos de la Horchata ...), but always in the same location, in the
Tetuán neighborhood
. It was founded in
1946 by
José González and Regina García, a Valencian couple who
brought horchatero art to Madrid
in the postwar period
. Today, at the forefront is the fourth generation:
Sergio Israel Ferrer
, who makes it according to the
family recipe
: "With water, sugar and tiger nuts from Alboraya," he says. And what is the process? "The tigernuts are washed, they
are passed to the mill
mixed with a little water to crush them; then, to the blender and then we
sift them by hand
.
Now there are presses that extract the juice, but we do it manually ", details Sergio.
Open from Easter to mid-October
, its offer is completed with natural lemon granita, meringue milk ice cream, black and white, barley water, artisan fartons, the typical Valencian coca and
horchata custard
, all made by themselves.
And, if you want to enjoy these products at home, they are delivered to your home through Glovo.
Prices: 2.20 euros (small) and 3.10 euros (half a liter).
Address:
Pedro Tezano, 11.
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