Alfredo's barbacoa

Conocido por muchos, si quieres comerte la mejor hamburguesa de Madrid con una Bud. Pone una ensalada de col muy buena. Hay dos el original en Lagasca, 5 y otro en Juan Hurtado de Mendoza, 11

Calle de Lagasca 5. Metro Retiro
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De Diego

Si quieres tomarte una caipirinha, un mojito, bloody Mary, o cualquier otro cóctel, es un sitio a visitar porque tomarás uno de los mejores cócteles de Madrid.

Calle de la Reina 12. Metro Gran Via

Ole Lola

C/ San Mateo, 28. Metro Tribunal
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Ototoi

Comida de fusión: Oriental con mediterránea. Tienen terraza, y por las noches puedes tomarte una copita: Mojito de sake recomiendan.
(por mi amigo Octavio)

Calle Alcala 35. Metro Sevilla /Banco de España
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The Irish Rover

Clásico pub irlandés conocido en Madrid. Como buen pub irlandés celebra St. Patrick`s day, y también se pueden ver partidos fútbol, rugby... tienen mesa de billar, etc...

Avenida del Brasil, 7. Metro Cuzco
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El Ocho

Restaurante, Bar, coctelería muy puesto. Puedes tomarte un café también.

Paseo de la Castellana, 8. Metro Colon

La Nicoletta

Comida italiana

Paseo de la Castellana, 4. Metro Colon
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Hard Rock Cafe

Paseo de la Castellana, 2. Metro Colon
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EMMA Y JULIA

Emma y Julia es un restaurante con encanto donde se puede degustar tranquilamente excelentes raciones de pasta italiana y pizzas. Un amigo me lo recomendó y fuimos una noche de febrero, como cena: carpaccio de avestruz, pizza bresola y tarta de chocolate, todo ello acompañado de un buen vino italiano. Recomiendo ir, merece la pena.

Cava Baja, 19. Metro La Latina

Chicago

Hace unas semanas fuí a ver con un amigo el musical de Chicago, en el Teatro Coliseum (Gran Vía). Me llamó la atención que toda la carga del musical recaía principalmente en los actores, no habiendo ni espectaculares escenarios ni elaborados vestuarios, por lo que es inevitable como espectadora fijar la atención en la actuación, en los cuerpos, en los movimientos y en las voces de los intérpretes. Este musical ofrece sinuosas y sensuales notas dentro de un tiempo y un espacio caracterizados por la corrupción, el adulterio, la traición, los celos, la avaricia, el poder.... Que mujer no ha querido sentirse en parte como Roxie Hart y Velma Kelly?.

Los precios de las entradas para ver Chicago, el musical oscilan entre los 20 y los 70 euros. El Teatro Coliseum está en la Gran Vía, 78. La duración del musical es de 2 horas y 20 min (incluído el descanso).

Gracias a quien me regaló mi primer musical

CAVA DE SAN MIGUEL

PLAZA MAYOR

PASEANDO POR EL RASTRO

J & J BOOKS AND COFFEE

Es un sitio donde los miercoles y jueves se realizan intercambios de idiomas español-inglés. Yo suelo ir los viernes a las 11 de la noche para jugar al trivial. En la planta de inferior puedes encontrar una libreria de segunda mano.

Espiritu Santo, 47. Metro Noviciado

EL JARDIN SECRETO

Yesterday I went with a friend to a special place: El Jardín Secreto. You can find a huge menu of chocolate drinks and desserts and rich tea flavors. The decor is ample as well; full of knick-knacks and mismatched furniture items, funky garage-sale sculptures and Hawaiian luau lamps (most of which are for sale). It can be overwhelming at first look, but the atmosphere is fun and the food is great.

Calle de Conde Duque 2. Metro Plaza de España

JUANA LA LOCA

In the heart of La Latina near this stylish bar/restaurant with Basque style pintxos has a good price to quality ratio, although its not cheap. They claim Gwyneth Paltrow ate here, but the reason I go is for their pintxo of tortilla española with carmalized onions with a glass of Cava. Their other tapas with a modern, inovative and international flair are very tasty as well.

Plaza Puerta de Moros 4. Metro La Latina

PALACIO DE CRISTAL

(Ph. Mado. Madrid. December 2009)

Located in the centre of the Buen Retiro Park in central Madrid is an imposing glass palace modelled on London's Crystal Palace. It was built around 36 years after its London counterpart in 1887, and designed by the architect Ricardo Velázquez Bosco who was responsible for another building in the park, the Palacio de Velázquez. He had also worked on such prestigious restoration projects as the Mezquita in Córdoba and the Alhambra in Granada.

The Palacio de Cristal, in the shape of a Greek cross, is made almost entirely of glass set in an iron framework on a brick base, which is decorated with ceramics. Its domed roofs makes the structure over 22 metres high. The glass palace was created in 1887 to house exotic flora and fauna as part of an exhibition on the Philippines, which was then still a Spanish colony. The exhibition spilled out into the park itself, and included a reconstruction of a native Philippino village. The palace is used today for contemporary art exhibitions organised through the Reina Sofia Museum.

In front of the entrance to the palace are steps leading down into the large artificial lake of the Retiro Park. The lake contains ducks. geese, black swans and terrapins, who will swim close to the steps, or you can hire boats on the lake for a closer view.

Only 19 years earlier, in 1868, the Parque del Buen Retiro had become the property of the City of Madrid. Prior to that, it had been the site of a Royal Palace and grounds. The original residence, built in 1632 for Philip IV, was located outside the official town limits as a royal retreat, but was destroyed during the Napoleonic period, and in the 17th century the grounds became a focus for festivals, bullfights, mock naval battles and theatre.

The park is set in around 130 hectares with a wide variety of over 15,000 trees, and is the venue for Madrid's annual book fair in May and June, where a long avenue of stalls present literature from all over the world in a variety of languages. There are a number of entrances to the park, the main one being in the Plaza de la Independencia, with other gates in the Calle de Alcala or Calle O'Donnell. The closest metro stations are Retiro and Banco de España.

FRUTAS VAZQUEZ

Frutas Vázquez is a shop in Madrid which specialises in fruit. This is probable the most colourful establishment in the posh Salamanca district and it is popularly known as the 'Vazquez Jewels'. The establishment offers an attractive and rich display of fruit and vegetables with the best of each variety, and is located in the midst of the most exclusive boutiques in the city.

The shop has an exotic fruit and vegetables section, as well as Spanish varieties such as asparagus and strawberries from Aranjuez.

This greengrocer's usually supplies its products to members of the Royal House and other well-known personalities.

Calle de Ayala, 11. Metro Serrano

JOSE RAMIREZ

José Ramírez is a shop in Madrid which specialises in guitars. The Ramírez family have been making Spanish guitars since 1882 and José Ramírez guitars are still constructed from aged woods of the finest quality.

Nowadays the family continues to closely follow the standards of traditional crafts workshops, where the highest authority is that of the Maestro, who designs, controls the work of its workers and apprentices and signs the guitars that obtain his approval.

Part of the collection of guitars held by the Ramírez family is exhibited in the shop, so visitors can delight in the perfect finishes and the beauty of the materials used.

Calle de la Paz, 8. Metro Sol