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  • Unpretentious restaurant serving vegetarian dishes. House speciality is spinach and mushroom tart (tarta de setas y espinacas ).

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

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

  • 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).

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

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

  • Asturian cooking is on offer in this formal restaurant. Live music Friday and Saturday.

  • Next to the Chamber of Deputies, this restaurant is popular with visiting German politicians for its central European cooking. Speciality is knuckle of pork with puréed potatoes. Don’t count the calories.

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

  • A popular hang-out with the young crowd, “the fat fish” offers a menu del día as well as tapas .

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