February 14 is an important date for many lovers, as it is one more excuse to celebrate their love.
The event is joined
by a multitude of restaurants in the capital, which design special menus to offer a great and loving gastronomic experience.
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BERRIA
They have defined it as an
"evening for Lovers",
set in its dimly lit space and a decoration with more than 300 wine references.
Its chef Javier Pérez Batallón, under the advice of Juanjo López from La Tasquita, has created
a lunch and night menu for the 14th
, consisting of brioche with jowls and caviar;
onion soup;
seafood salad, sole Meunière and steak tartare, to finish off with apple pie and a delicious variety of cheeses.
Where: Plaza de la Independencia, 6. Tel. 664 86 43 22. Price: €100.
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PAPAGENA
Located in the marvelous Teatro Real, and managed by Life Gourmet Catering, it offers
a special menu designed by chef Ramón Freixa
himself that starts with pink salmon and sea bass in acevichada, followed by a tasty hake fritter with candied crystal pepper, to continue with steamed loin empanadas with pisto bell pepper hoisin.
For the main course, he proposes two options, each one more delicious.
On the one hand, red tuna belly tartare, avocado, fried eggs and nori seaweed in tempura, and on the other, a sweet glazed veal shank with mashed potatoes with Idiazábal cheese.
The dessert comes in the shape of a heart,
but the ingredients will only be discovered by those who come, since it is a chef's secret.
Where: Teatro Real, C. Carlos III, s/n, sixth floor.
Tel. 629 70 78 85. Price: €55.
HAPPY HOUSE
True to his concept of elevating the traditional recipe book,
his dinner for February 14 could not be less.
Antonio del Álamo, known for offering a local seasonal product, opted for artichoke stuffed with foie gras and glazed truffle with hollandaise sauce, and lobster tail with seafood salad as starters, to give way to the main course, which is chosen from Grilled golden red mullet with pumpkin purée or matured beef marrow sirloin.
It is convenient to leave room for dessert: a strawberry on almond cream with manzanilla zabayon from Sanlúcar de Barrameda.
Where: Charity, 15.Tel.
914 47 51 11. Price: €75.
ZINGARA
The new veggie venue in the Salesas neighborhood joins the day of love, creating a special menu based on its
plant-based
cuisine
, the work of Argentine chef Maximiliano Rossi.
It is made up of beetroot and yogurt in a salad with boffard cheese, dill and fried cashews;
Korean saam of almond pâté in shiso leaf with tamarind and peanut sauce, and aubergine milanese.
Of course, it should be accompanied by one of the
succulent cocktails made by the Angelita y Amarguería cocktail bar
.
Where: Plaza de las Salesas, 8. Tel. 652 18 80 63. Price: €45.
LADY BONGO RAW TIKI BAR
Lady Bongo celebrates Valentine's Day for the first time with an original gastronomic proposal full of exotic flavors, creating a
menu called "aphrodisiac" and a cocktail inspired by Polynesia.
To start heating up the evening, the starters will consist of grilled white asparagus with avocado hummus and winter sprouts and tuna tataki, watermelon juice, strawberry and basil.
For the main course, they offer two alternatives, a marinated duck magret, cassava and huancaína sauce, or the supreme of turbot in seaweed 'meunier', false beetroot gnocchi.
To finish, nothing sweeter and more sensual than some strawberries with dark chocolate sauce.
Where: Serrano, 1. Tel: 662 29 94 79. Price: €55.
MODERN TRATTORIA LETTER
This
Italian cosmopolitan cuisine
offers an evening centered around three starters to share, two main courses to choose from, and two desserts accompanied by an Italian wine.
It begins with green leaves with Parmesan cream and vinaigrette;
a fried pizza with mortadella and pistachio and wild asparagus with a base of mozzarella and basil oil.
As a main course, a linguini nero with pomodorini and grilled squid faced with cappelacci di brasato in foie gras sauce and red wine reduction with crunchy leeks.
As a culmination, creamy chocolate with Maldon salt, oil and basil sprouts, or its mythical and delicious tiramisu.
Where: Reina, 20. Tel: 91 805 3342. Price: €55 without drink, €69 with drink.
THE ONLY ONE
The "Mexiterranean" restaurant in the capital welcomes lovers with a very special cocktail called "el amante", set, as expected, in the colors of love, pink and red, and made with a fusion of macerated mezcal in St. Germain raspberries, freeze-dried raspberries, raspberry foam, rose petals and lime.
To eat,
its chef Andrés Madrigal opts for a different experience, in which there is no lack of Ribeteado Sepúlveda suckling pig;
arroz a la tumbada, or the Black Angus rib flambéed with Tequila Don Julio 70.
Where: Calle de Claudio Coello, 10. Tel. 679 05 47 46. Price: €75.
KILLO MADRID
This restaurant brings the best of Cádiz to the capital thanks to the Austrian chef Manuel Auer
and the businesswoman Alejandra Álvarez, who succeed every summer in Zahara de los Atunes.
It focuses on offering its usual menu, where dishes with Almadraba tuna are protagonists.
For February 14 they have created
two special cocktails,
a raspberry whiskey smash, and a 'Pink Panther' made with white rum, pineapple juice and grenadine.
Where: Joaquín María López, 46. Tel: 915 98 78 05. Price: From €30 and €11 for a cocktail.
NUNUKA BISTRO
This
small Georgian bistro
favors heart as a star item on the menu.
These days you can taste the
Khachapuri
, its flat bread baked at the moment and stuffed with cheese and an egg yolk;
the
Pkhaleuli,
which are Georgian walnut-based vegetable dips accompanied by homemade cornbread and Jonjoli and the
Chakhaluli
, some beef cheeks with walnut sauce and red onion will be heart-shaped.
Of course, the dessert will be a red velvet cake in the same shape.
Where: Libertad, 13. Tel. 91 170 02 89 Price: €89 for two people.
LIZARD SNAP
The
space with the best views of Madrid's Gran Vía
wanted to celebrate the night of love with the Uzume cocktail inspired by Japanese eroticism, designed by Luca Anastasio based on Jinzu gin and fresh rose perfume.
To eat, chef Manuel Berganza has created a delicious dinner that begins with dishes to share such as gilda with quail egg, some tasty pan-fried clams and manzanilla, and an artichoke stewed in garlic with toasted almonds.
The main course is given a choice between Bilbao-style hake, baked potatoes and snow peas, or a grilled picanha with caramelized piquillo peppers and French fries.
Where: Hotel NH Collection Gran Vía. Gran Vía, 21. Tel. 91 530 17 61. Price: €60.
11 NORTHERN TERRACE KNOTS
They propose a very Galician gastronomic experience
, with a tasting that includes an appetizer consisting of salmon marinated in Nordés gel and roasted scallops with onion and lemongrass, to continue with turbot with shrimp tartare and salicornia on a creamy albariño soup, or a tataki of Galician chop with roasted carrot puree and juniper juice.
As a different plan
, each couple has the possibility of creating their own cocktail with the help of a Nordés
bartender
to the taste of each lover.
Where: San Antón Market Terrace, C. de Augusto Figueroa, 24, 3rd floor.
Tel: 91 330 02 94. Price: €35.
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