I'll be staying the month of July in an apartment very near the Plaza de Colon. Anyone have any favorite restaurants in the area, or places to buy sandwiches etcetera and stock my refrigerator? Any other tips/observations on the Colon area welcome as well.

Gracias,

Dinty

Hi !!
A nice place for a special dinner with your wife might be Bomarzo. It�s a nice and small restaurant, "desing" sytile, in the trendiest part of Salamanca area. The address is :

Bomarzo
C/ Jorge Juan 16 (metro Serrano)
Telephone : 91 4315840 or 91 431 5950. It�s closed saturdays midday and sundays. You should book a table in advance, as usually is full. Prices, about 15-25 €.

About a place for everyday meals..... there�s a lot of restaurants in that area, including Hard Rock Cafe , but for sandwiches and things like that, I�ll suggest Rodilla (I�ll check if there�s any nearby).

Ok, as promissed, the nearest Rodilla is in C/ Genova, 19, quite near from Plaza de Col�n, but there�s many all over the city

I just spotted an article in the Electronic Telegraph. It lists 12 "Great lunch" spots. They are: (in the order in the article)
Prices are shown in Pounds so multiply by 1.45 to get Euros?

La Nunciatura El Bierzo
Calle Nuncio 19 (0034 91 366 2591). Set lunch �8 , � la carte �20.

El Bierzo
Calle Barbieri 16 (0034 91 531 9110). Set lunch �4.50, � la carte �8.

Paulino Calle Alonso Cano 34 (0034 91 441 8737). Set lunch �6, � la carte �20.

La Isla del Tesoro
Calle Manuela Malasa�a 3 (0034 91 593 1440). Set lunch �6, � la carte �18.

El Viajero
Plaza de la Cebada 11 (0034 91 366 9064). Set lunch �6, � la carte �18.

La Gamella
Calle Alfonso XII 4 (0034 91 532 4509). Set lunch �12, � la carte �26.

Kalas
Calle Amnistia 6 (0034 91 559 1755). Set lunch �7, brunch �12 and � la carte �20.

De Pura Cepa
Calle Fuente del Berro 31 (0034 91 309 2879). Set lunch �7, � la carte �18.

Viuda de Vacas
Calle Cava Alta 23 (0034 91 366 5847). Set lunch �7.50, � la carte �15.

La Gloria de Montera
Calle Caballero de Gracia 10 (0034 91 523 4407). No booking. Set lunch �4.50, � la carte �12.

Monteprincipe
Calle San Andres 31 (0034 91 448 8310). Set lunch �7 , � la carte �18.

El Circulo de Bellas Artes
Calle Alcal� 42 (0034 91 360 5400). Set lunch �6, � la carte �12.

THE FULL ARTICLE WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF EACH PLACE IS AT http://travel.telegraph.co.uk/travel/main.jhtml?xml=/travel/2003/05/03/etmadridlunch.xml Nige

If you'd like to try a veggie / what-no-ham? option, La Gallette at 10, Barbara de Braganza is not bad. Better in the evening, it's actually two restaurants side by side, one more veggie than the other. Has a fairly original menu. Tel is 913 193 148, probably worth booking ahead.

Hi all !

Here�s another one,

La Finca de Susana
C/ Arlaban 4 (Metro Sevilla)
Tel. 91 3693557

It�s a great place, the owners are the same as La Gloria de Montera.
You can not book a table in advance, so my advice is to get there as early as possible to get a nice table (let�s say about 8 pm - 8:30 pm, it�s always crowed).I�ve been there a lot of times, food is quite good and prices are reasonable.

There is also Bazaar on C/Libertad owned by the same people as la finca de susana etc. One of my fav meat places is La Carreta on Barbieri, they close late at midday and even later at nightime. One of the great classic economicos is Bogota on C/Belen another curious place is El Cisne Azul on Gravina, small and a little pricey but the produce is superb, they also specialise in different types of mushrooms and no they don't.

By the way, the Castellana cuts a swathe through the center of Madrid, the west side is more traditional and the East side is more up-market. You'll probably find everything you want in staggering distance, find your nearest market and you can get all the fresh stuff you want. I go the one on Barcelo and Mejia Lequerica. You've also got some of the very cool terrazas on Recolletos, Cafe Gijon, El Espejo etc. but they don't serve pints so I don't go there.

Hi again

There�s a few places more I�ve been to, that are nice:

La Taquer�a de Birra
Plaza de las Comendadoras, 2 (Metro San Bernardo & Noviciado)
Tel. 915228049
Mexican food, nice place, specially in summer, as you can sit down outside. There�s many other places in Plaza de las Comendadoras.

La Fabrica
C/ Genova 21 (Metro Col�n)
Tel. 913195134
German food....and beer too :cheers:

And for having a nice ice-cream, teas, caipiri�as, mojitos, etc, my fav. caf� :
Caf� de Ruiz
C/ del Ruiz 11 (Metro Bilbao)
Sorry, I wasn�t able to find the phone number
Open from 15:00 to 03:00
Nice old-fashioned cafe with marmol tables. Perfect for a sunday afternoon

Hey dinty, just so ya know, the vast majority of the places mentioned here are not near the Plaza de Col�n which was the topic of this thread.

Not a bad thing since I prefer to try many areas of the city for good eats but I just wanted you to realize (if you had not already done so on your own) that the thread has become a general list of good places to eat.

Saludos,
jer...

A good place to have a beer would be Cervezer�a Santa Barbara, on Plaza Santa Barbara, located a little to the west of Plaza de Colon

If you get hungry for american food there is a place a couple blocks north of colon and 1 block east. It is called something like 'Knight and Squire' or 'El Nait'. It has good hamburgers.

Then why not try Alfredos on C/Lagasca

BAH!!!

Who needs Alfredos Barbaco when ya gots the multimadrid BarBQs

Saludos,
jer...

A classic I like is:
Casa julian
C/ramon de la cruz
close to the corte inles on serrano
argentinian style, with limited menu but the bewst meat! and the price is really good!
salu2,
serge