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From Tapas we compile the best plans with which to enjoy the weekend in Madrid, and relegate ourselves to hedonism between cultural and gastronomic experiences, parties, events and museums. Take the agenda and take note of our weekly proposal.
FRIDAY 19
On Friday we will delight ourselves with the gastronomy of the Latin restaurant NOS, creatively directed by Venezuelan Luis Alejandro Hernández. Located in the Salesas neighborhood, this place has transcended in the culinary scene of the capital for its original dishes and signature cocktails served in an intimate and relaxed atmosphere.
There, the chef cooks innovation through elaborations such as fish tiraditos with mango, mandarin tiger’s milk and roasted peppers, brioche of Galician beef steak tartar, bell bell pepper and roe, tortellini of white shrimp from Huelva, as well as desserts such as corn torrijas: one of NOS’s sweet hits. All this paired with its avant-garde mixology proposal also inspired by its intersection between the Mediterranean essence and Latin flavors. Where? Calle Barquillo, 30.
SATURDAY 20
As night falls on Saturday, all the spotlights in the capital will be on Karol G, who will take the stage at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium. An event that we have been waiting with great expectation for a long time, with which to vibrate with the show of the tour ‘Mañana Será Bonito Tour’, with which the Colombian artist and icon of global pop culture will make all attendees sing and dance in a high frequency ritual with songs like ‘TQG’, ‘Mi cama’, ‘Bichota’ or ‘Oki doki’.
SUNDAY 21
We will close the weekend with a retro-modern tapas at Casa Canito. A bar that recovers the essence of the Madrid movida of the eighties through its interior design and its proposal, structured around a bar, high tables and stools.
The menu, directed by Patxi Zumárraga, combines great classics with innovations in dishes such as raw tuna with miso-cured yolk dressing, the bikini of Iberian loin, mozzarella and truffle or its combination of anchovy, anchovy and bokarte. Where? At Calle Recoletos, 11.
In the afternoon we will be stimulated by the new work housed at the Thyssen-Bornemisza, which presents a retrospective of the American Robert Nava. Curated by Guillermo Solana, this is the artist’s first monographic exhibition in a museum, with a selection of 17 large-format pieces made between 2019 and 2024, including Volador con castillo a la espalda (2021) and Tormenta en el río Rojo (2023) belonging to this collection.
Robert Nava dissociates himself from the academic norm and creates a very personal style related to “bad painting”, a term used to define those works that defy good taste. Influenced by prehistoric art, Egyptian art, pre-Columbian culture, cartoons and the paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Cy Twombly, Nava seeks to create a new mythology that responds to our times, composed of hybrid creatures and zoomorphic monsters that inhabit scenes of certain violence’.
