Acid Bakehouse: this is the best bread in Madrid of 2021

There are few things more gratifying than putting a piece of bread that smells and tastes like bread in your mouth.

A simple pleasure a priori, but not so easy to achieve, despite the fact that in recent times in Madrid there are more and more

determined to vindicate the spirit of this food, basic in our diet.

A purpose that is beginning to be rewarded with prizes, such as the one that

has just won

, winner of

contest organized by Club Matador that has just celebrated its fourth edition.

It is a cafeteria-bakery-pastry shop opened for a little less than a year -on Magdalena street, between the Lavapiés and Las Letras neighborhoods, where its

,

(Verónica, 9) is located - which has with its own bakery and from which baguettes and loaves made with

, brioches, croissants and other artisan buns come out, and coffee, of course. "This award is an honor because it is important that small bakeries like ours are valued," said

, one of the owners of Acid Bakehouse, along with Sasha Zavgorodniaia.

And what are the

that support this bakery as the creator of 'The Best Bread in Madrid of 2021'? It is

a bread with an elastic, honeycombed crumb, with a golden and crunchy crust, a very controlled acidity, very soft, and an

that in the end reminds me a bit of beer", explained

gastronomic critic and president of the jury, who was accompanied by

(winemaker and vice president of the Matador Club

;

Juan Manuel Bellver (director of Lavinia and gastronomic critic);

Estela Gutiérrez (pastry chef and owner of Estela Hojaldre);

Clara P. Villalón (gastronomic consultant) and Alberto Miragoli, artisan baker from Cientotreinta °, winner of the previous edition.

At the end of this fourth installment, another

have arrived

(Levain Tahona Artesana, Marea Bread, Obrador San Francisco, Panadarío and Panem Madrid, winner in 2020), professional artisans with their own

who

one-kilo

, made only with wheat flour, yeast, water and salt.

The decisive test to find the best bread has been a

held at 12 in the morning of this Tuesday, November 23, in which the jury took into account five criteria:

.

The contest - inspired by which for 27 years it has been organized in Paris to choose the

and whose winner becomes a supplier to the Elysee Palace for a year - seeks to vindicate

and those slow fermentation preparations with natural products.

Acid Bakehouse

(Magdalena, 7) will receive the stamp that accredits it as the author of the best bread in Madrid 2021, and will become the

of the Matador Club for one year, as has already happened with the winners of previous editions (Crustó, Panem and One hundred and thirty °).

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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