Olsen has a spacious living room with kitchen view

Eating well is essential when visiting a restaurant, but for a large segment of customers, the restaurant is also a social meeting place where living and enjoy a good atmosphere, music and other possibilities. The balance is difficult because a stylish bar as the present one, is also a designer restaurant, we could say that where you can go to a cocktail or a glass, it is unlikely that you can go and have a tasting menu mushrooms worth ... Well in Winter Belvedere Lounge Olsen is possible, we will not say it's the best restaurant in Madrid, but one of the most special, where the desktop can be extended at the bar and, above all, where in addition drink can be eaten.

Name: Olsen
Address: Prado n º 15 28014 Madrid
Phone: 914 293 659
Website: www.olsenmadrid.com
Type of cuisine: International, Argentine touch
Environment: Local type Yorker with a great bar, indirect lighting, two sofas, spacious kitchen view
Service: very smooth and gentle, directed by Eduardo Algost, but on Monday we attended Matias Menendez, with enough knowledge of the restaurant's kitchen.
Accessibility: Good, except for two steps high enough at the entrance
Setting: urban thirtysomethings
Parking: No
Price: Good value for money, especially in the tasting menus
Tour date: Dinner, Monday October 19, 2009

Cuisine:

Portobello mushroom stuffed with goat cheese with a crunchy texture, Brontes salad green apple and pistachios

Our intention was to test the mushroom tasting menu (28 euros), which is the novelty of the restaurant in the fall. Start with a slice of mushroom, cream of mushrooms, shallots and dill, with good flavor, although some fat toast, then a porcini confit, crispy ham and arugula, a set that is harmonious, while the porcini is a little dehydrated. Then comes the best dish on the menu, the Portobello mushroom stuffed with goat cheese with a crunchy texture, Brontes salad green apple and pistachio: absolutely delicious and completely harmonious. We ended with a mascarpone risotto, sauteed mushrooms and parmesan Fall: the wonderful risotto, and creamy, with a great taste and its extent, although there was little integration of mushrooms, which seemed the same as for roasting, simply put on top.

Smorlebrod: open sandwiches and 5 vodkas

We could not resist another classic restaurant, we also tested the cocktails. The menu of cocktails and other drinks is impressive, with prices ranging between 8 and 12 euros. Some of the most consumed are PeperBerry with Absolut Pepper vodka, raspberry, Cointreau and pepper: very refreshing and colorful, also with a great flavor is the Mandarinoska, which carries Absolut Mandarin and tangerine. Finally we tried the Mint, with vodka, mint and passion fruit ... delicious. Another classic of the restaurant are the tables, called Smorlebrod: open sandwiches and 5 vodkas (5 +5). Its price is 22 euros and have different types of couches, very well made, with its marriage of shots of vodka. It is advisable to first take the smoothest and finally the most powerful: a way of eating and drinking curious and funny. The appetizers were all very good and were made from grain breads, crisp ... still my preferred pear.

Bondiola

We also tested another classic of the letter, the pork tenderloin (17 euros), an exquisite meat pork neck, which is a typical recipe from Argentina, is presented on a potato puree and a red fruit sauce: delicious meat , mashed wonderful, just a little too much sauce (I think). Roasted dessert bananas with ginger, vanilla, cinnamon, coconut sorbet and milk (7 euros), also buenísimos, and chocolate mousse, chocolate ice cream and crackers maldom (8 euros): very good combination of chocolate and crackers. We drank water, because among the pairings of cocktails and vodka is difficult to get wine, but the restaurant has a broad charter and international, with Spanish wines, French, Italian, Portuguese, Australians, Argentines and Chileans.

Comment:

It is advisable not to miss the opportunity to try the bagels made in the room, of different types, with cheese sauce and salmon: are buenísimas. Reservations are highly recommended, especially on weekends.

Rating:

The Argentine chef presitigioso Martitegui Germain, which has two restaurants in Buenos Aires: Casa Cruz and Tegui Olsen advises the restaurant where she cooks Esteban Perez. It is a well equipped kitchen to switch, with quality products, but where neither raw nor the result of seasonality, but kept in touch preparations of fusion, the taste of a cosmopolitan clientele, young and urban, average purchasing power, he not only wants to eat properly, but also be a pleasant place, even past midnight. A restaurant that is consistent with their clientele, with a proper kitchen and a very nice service that is worth knowing.

Score:

6.7 / 10

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