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From Tapas we have compiled the best plans with which to make the most of the weekend in Madrid, and to indulge in hedonism between cultural and gastronomic experiences, festivals, events and museums. Grab your diary and take note of our suggestions for Easter.
FRIDAY 7 APRIL
Good Friday arrives and obligations and school dogma are suspended until Monday. It’s time to rest and gather strength and energy for a dinner and afterparty.
As night falls, we decide to visit the Italian trattoria Fratelli Figurato. In the middle of this relaxed and informal space, we can taste the best pizza in Spain (certified). The pizzeria brothers and ideologists of this restaurant, Riccardo and Vittorio Figurato, bring popular Italian food to the capital: from pizza napoletana to fresh pasta. Our recommendation? The mortadella and pistachio pizza and the Diavola de Leon, made with EVOO and semi-wholemeal Italian wheat flour, which makes them lighter, as well as delicious.
From Calle Alonso Cano, we head towards the Barrio de las Letras until we reach Macera Club: the experimental discotheque and cocktail bar where we will quench our thirst with a macerated cocktail, and then go down to the basement to experience a special night, or space night. This Friday, the Macera x Space Taxi party will be resounding in the club with sounds of holy house and disco fun so that we can dance all night long without stopping. In addition, the party will feature a series of exclusive guests: the dj Mamba Nera and the regular crew members of her ship Jon AV and Luis Torrijos.
SATURDAY 8 APRIL
We wake up on Saturday with an alternative cultural plan: to visit the group exhibition “What we all have in common” installed ephemerally at La Causa Galería. This contemporary space hosts this exhibition curated by five artists who use figurative languages from an approach to painting, drawing and sculpture, drinking from abstraction and approaching the interpretation of form based on simple naïf-inspired strokes.
From this visually and intellectually stimulating experience, we’ll head to the fashion concept store on the effervescent Gran Vía: WOW Concept. After buying some of their designer pieces, we’ll head upstairs to the restaurant located between floors 5 and 6, called PENTHOUSE: an eclectic space that simulates an authentic flat reinterpreted through an elevated décor and aesthetic.
Both inside and on the terrace, you can enjoy a series of creations prepared by chef Javier Goya, who creatively revisits the classics of local gastronomy, such as the artichokes from Tudela with truffled marinade and Iberian ham or the free-range chicken cannelloni in pepitoria, truffled béchamel sauce and almonds. Let’s toast from the sky of Madrid, Chin-Chín.
SUNDAY 9 APRIL
What could be better than professing the gastronomic religion of brunch on Easter Sunday? For this holy day, we decided to try Coco House’s brunch, set in its tropical landscape amidst a myriad of plants. This exotic brunch includes a drink, a bowl, a main course and a dessert in which the common thread is coconut to enhance all the flavours: from coffee to Dutch salt.
After going to the flea market, having lunch and a vermouth that will last until the afternoon, our next stop will be the Cineteca located in El Matadero. This Sunday, at 8pm, they will be screening Kubrick’s great classic “A Clockwork Orange“, one of the most revolutionary films in the history of cinema, which takes us into an absolutely dystopian and anarchic future society in which behaviour can be corrected by force.
To put the cherry on top of this weekend, what better than to close it in style at Club Malasaña with the exclusive party of MERMELADA and the dj set of Pablo Amores, who will mix his electronic and progressive sounds of the 90’s and 00’s with the new wave of the most current makineo in the place to be at night in Malasaña.
