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  • Artemisa

    This well-known vegetarian restaurant features a nettle purée among other imaginative dishes. Also organic wines and herbal teas. No smoking.

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  • Café y Té

    The name “coffee and tea” says it all. Branch of a cafeteria chain in the heart of cinema land (see Cinemas and Entertainment).

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  • Casa Labra

    A Madrid institution, it was here that Pablo Iglesias founded the Spanish Socialist party in 1879. Of the tapas on offer try the house speciality, soldaditos de Pavía (fried cod).

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  • Cock

    This tastefully decorated late-night bar is a good place to round off the evening.

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  • Don Paco

    This Andalusian taberna serves a house speciality of rabo de toro (bull’s tail).

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  • El Escarpín

    This lively Asturian tavern serves regional specialities such as bean soup (fabada ) and sausages in cider (chorizo a la sidra ).

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  • La Barraca

    This Valencian restaurant specializes in rice dishes, including paella .

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  • Mad

    This restaurant was a favourite of film director Pedro Almodóvar, and appears in his film All about my Mother . The terrace has views of the Calatravas church on Gran Vía, but you pay for the privilege. Mediterranean cooking.

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  • Museo Chicote

    It was Ernest Hemingway who put this cocktail bar on the map in the 1930s; other famous visitors include Frank Sinatra and Orson Welles. The Art Deco trappings are best appreciated at night (see Museo Chicote).

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  • Robata

    The usual Japanese combinations of tempura, sushi and sashimi dishes. Minimalist décor.

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