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Unique items, premium raw materials and/or even with

denomination of origin, fine laterio

... These are hallmarks of those shops that currently have their raison d'être as a delicatessen.

four to gourmet

Mendez Alvaro, 34 |

Hours: Tuesday to Friday, from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Saturdays and Sundays, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. |

cuatroagourmet.com

In 2021,

José Ramón Sandoval

, a well-known soccer coach -Rayo Vallecano, Sporting, Granada...- and member of the well-known Sandoval (

Coque

) hotel saga- opened this store with premium products, a meat maturation chamber and takeaway food that they make every day.

The roast suckling pig is essential (prior order, yes) or the quillitos, butter puff pastries that they make at the moment.

And for the most

foodies

, delicatessen with its own name (Discarlux, Bolshoi caviar, Panes con Alma...).

forging

Chamberí Square, 9, local 3 |

Hours: Monday to Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. |

formaje.com

Formaje was born with a clear objective: to promote the excellence of

artisan cheese

and work towards its recognition.

For this, they have created different spaces where they disseminate the cultural value of cheese crafts and facilitate access to its consumption through a varied selection of cheeses, made with quality milk and care in the methods of feeding the livestock and in the processes. of manufacture.

Its Christmas Magna cheese board

stands out

, with reblochon d'Alpage, Cañarejal cake, comté, Manchego and blossom hornkäse, among others.

High Brie

Alonso Cano, 10 |

Hours: Monday to Friday, from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Saturdays, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

|

www.briealto.com

Richard

has spent half his life in cheese,

Pauline

half his life in Spain.

So they decided to join

Gabriel

and "create a cheese life in Madrid."

To this end, they opened Brie Alto in Alonso Cano, next to

the Chamberí Market

- with a delegation with a bistro in the

Vallehermoso Market

- where they are committed to offering high-quality products, selected directly with the producers.

“Here you will not find anything industrial.

If yours is a good cheese with a good wine, look no further", they explain while recommending their Saint Félicien, the Fourme d'Ambert or a Château Simon 2021.

Royal Spanish Factory

Cervantes, 9 |

Hours: every day from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. |

realfabrica.com

Rocío Muñoz

worked abroad for a multinational for several years, and realized how Spanish traditions and customs were liked abroad while they were being left to die at home.

For this reason, in 2012 she decided to create Real Fábrica Española, the store of national brands "with the most history, the products of a lifetime that represent the best that we have known how to do here for several generations."

Taking the name of

the royal manufactures founded by the Bourbons in the 18th century

for the manufacture of luxury objects for royalty and the aristocracy of the time, in his shop you can find everything from gourmet packs (with truffled sausage, Iberian loin and ham, anchovies...) and high-end groceries to books and Majorcan babutxes , without forgetting their prized mohair blankets and scarves.

Petra Mora

Customer service hours: Monday to Thursday, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. |

petramora.com

Petra Mora has celebrated its tenth anniversary by announcing that it will open its own cheese factory and meat workshop in Madrid.

The project of the textile entrepreneur

Jesús Domínguez

, led by his daughters

María and Uxía

-nieces of the designer

Adolfo Domínguez

and also creators of the fashion firm

Bimba y Lola-

, began in a meadow located to the north of the province of Zamora, in

Granja de Moreruela

.

This gourmet shop has as its hallmark the groundbreaking vintage aesthetic of its packaging and includes canned seafood and vegetables, red meat from Galicia and Zamora, wines made directly for them, sausages, oils, salts, cheeses, flours, breads, jams...

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