When I go to Madrid I love take your gourmet shops. It is true that each time we have access to more and more products at local and international level, but it is also true that it is not always easy to find everything you'd like.
There are two shops in particular that I lose: are the Vazquez Greengrocer, at calle Ayala 11, along with Serrano and Gold Gourmetin Ortega y Gasset 85, becoming almost a corner with Francisco Silvela.
Vazquez It is a classic of the greengrocer gourmet de Madrid. Founded more than 70 years ago always has a fresh products of unmatched quality: big cherries as strawberries, strawberries as large as oranges and oranges so great melons. Their fruits and vegetables are probably the very best that is sold in Spain.
They always have fruit and vegetables of season of the country and part of the foreigner. In the truffle season, it is of the few places in Spain that directly sell the white truffle and boasts a variety of mushrooms, worthy of the footballer David the GNOME. He has also all kinds of tropical fruits and purees of fruit pulp.
Gold Gourmet It is a delicatessen in every rule. Sell fish and seafood, meats of all kinds, fruits, unimaginable vegetables and vegetables, nuts, exotic fruits, all kinds, wines, sausages, canned mushrooms, cheese... become crazy and not know where look. To my has saved me on more than one occasion of an I want... and I have to find it.
The first time I went to Gold Gourmet, was on his way from a nearby restaurant with my friends. Suddenly I saw a very cute green sprout and I couldn't just stop me dry when I read the poster that accompanied:!Moonshine and Campions!.
Until that day, I thought that the nonsense were just nonsense, and campions were what my father gave my brother when he got bad grades. But it is not, that they are two outbreaks, very tasty, ideal to accompany salads, as well as being a very green and beautiful, plants that Yes, small. With the Campion are some delicious tortillas that surprised everyone.
Thinking of researching new jams, I came to the memory, that fruit so much fun that he bought in London: the rhubarb.
To those who have seen them ever, I will tell you that view they are almost identical to the celery, but red strawberry. Its smell is fruity and the taste citric between grapefruit and lemon, but without being sour. It is one stem very color you would have at home in a vase if it wasn't for how complicated it is to find it.
I try to buy in season when I when I go to Madrid (so am I), and when I get the clean home and freeze it in small pieces, (like I do with the handles of the Axarquía when it comes his time), and thus can enjoy its rich jam throughout the year. Well, its rich jam... of gazpacho with strawberries... and cakes as succulent as today with ruibarbos and cardamom sugar. Are you coming with me to the kitchen to prepare it? Let's go!
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very well placed fruit but... better taste a greengrocer classic
Hello Ivan, my experience with frutaría it Vazquez has been fantastic and the only but I put it is that it is expensive, but the quality of the products that I have tried has always been good.
My experience with Gold Gourmet is q the fruit dorare of q is face not is fresh the presentation very good but as it take of them cameras is buy and consume it porq as it let for the other day is spoil dm as to fruits tropical me seems barbarian h expensive barbarian an example you bequeathed guava and me dan ones q are last q only worth case for make it as juice porq for consume not has flavor q this past but impressed porq asked one with verdecitos skin or cocked and say noo if the best way to consume it is in this State is well ripe and is ready. I say I that latinos do not know our fruit? We don't know when is best? It is q you try idiotic s of q are very expensive
Hello Pearl, so thank you for your opinion. I when I bought always has been full of quality, expensive that itself, but good and have of all. A hug and many thanks for writing
Horrible experience. Yesterday sold me some old turnip tops, straight yellow. Call in the afternoon to the phone of the greengrocer of Ortega y Gasset said, and told me that I approached paea change them with the subsequent disorder. You have called me liar and making than that bunch came out of there so...
The thief believes that they are all from suu condition... my husband is Galician and I think he knows cusndo jn grelo is old and when not. Two employees have been to beat me, I the hancambiado but shouts kept insisting that had not come out of there as well. You believe that £ 3 I'm going to fight with a person. Was I left them there, but since then they have lost a very good familua clienra of that store. That insurance. The quality of settlements is not only for the article to have, but by the respect that is shown to customers and these 2 employees not tienenni idea of what that word means.
Well I sorry Hello Maria Luisa. I when I lived in Madrid was going to find the ingredients that the market does not, and never had any problem. I'm really sorry. A greeting
for my taste the most beautiful fruit and with a spectacular genre and a normal price is the fruit vitamins in c / novitiate 9, Malasaña. A 10
Hi Manuel, so thank you for the recommendation. I'm me for when return to Madrid. Thank you for writing and for being here with me :)
Good,
I wanted to know if they sell fresh RUIBARBO. Greetings,
They sell it in Frutería Vazquez in ayala street when it is season and in some markets such as Chamartín and La Paz in season. A greeting