Las Cuevas de Luis Candelas and La Mallorquina, two new establishments in the Association of Centennial Restaurants and Taverns of Madrid
2024/01/31
- Las Cuevas de Luis Candelas and La Mallorquina, two new centenary establishments that become part of the Association of Centennial Restaurants and Taverns of Madrid.
- With these new additions, there are now 14 establishments that make up the association, in its desire to maintain and preserve the history and gastronomy of Madrid.
- In 2021, the Plenary Session of the Madrid City Council approved declaring Madrid's century-old restaurants cultural and tourist spaces of special citizen significance and general interest for the city.
Two new century-old establishments add to the extensive history and gastronomic tradition that characterize the Association of Centennial Restaurants and Taverns of Madrid, consolidating it as an essential reference in the Madrid culinary scene.
The Caves of Luis Candelas (1860)
Las Cuevas de Luis Candelas is one of the most historic restaurants in Madrid. Founded more than 150 years ago, in 1860 and located in the Arco de Cuchilleros (next to the Plaza Mayor), it owes its name to the famous Caves that sheltered the best-known bandit in the capital, Luis Candelas, in the 19th century. . A bandit who stole from the rich to help the poor.
Today this restaurant, after four generations of the same family, offers excellent traditional Madrid cuisine, which highlights among others, the Bull's Tail, the roast suckling pig and the Lamb in a wood oven, the Madrilenian Stew, the Hake to the Casserole, or the Tripe. This, together with a careful service, gives this restaurant a special charm, which takes everyone who visits it back in time.
Félix Colomo, famous and renowned bullfighter of Madrid born in Navalcarnero, falls in love with the old caves under the Arco de Cuchilleros, where the old wine office was located, converting it into the current restaurant, so that the history of old Madrid endures in the time. Félix Colomo combined the dream of being a bullfighter with that of restoration, dedicating himself body and soul to his beloved Cuevas. With more than a century and a half of history, “Las Cuevas de Luis Candelas” continues to open its doors every day, preserving the style, typicality and uniqueness of that time, keeping the secret of the best traditional gastronomy to the delight of everyone who sits down. on their tables.
The Mallorquina (1894)
In their bakery, the most central in Spain at kilometer zero, founded in 1894, they work with traditional recipes along with the most current pastries. The master pastry chefs prepare top quality products starting at 6 in the morning, so that customers can enjoy freshly baked sweets, with the best natural ingredients, without preservatives, flavorings or stabilizers.
They were the first to introduce the Roscón de Reyes in Spain and there is no Madrid resident who has not tried their cream or chocolate Neapolitan, the best-selling product, along with the Croissant, the Truffles, the Reina de nata, Tea cakes or the Bartolillo, a genuine recipe that remains in very few pastry shops today.
And the history of La Mallorquina is linked to that of the capital itself, although it was three Mallorcans (Balaguer, Coll and Ripoll) who founded the establishment, offering products such as ensaimadas, sobrasadas and cold cuts in their shop and tea room, in quality preserves or sweet ham served with spun egg. Soon the establishment came to life with lively gatherings where coffee, chocolate or even beer were served. It was an elegant and refined place with a service of waiters dressed in tails who spoke in French. All this in an environment of illustrious clients, from poets, writers, politicians or members of the Royal Family.
The Association of Centennial Restaurants and Taverns of Madrid
The Association of Centennial Restaurants and Taverns of Madrid (RCM) brings together fourteen restaurant establishments with more than 100 years of history that throughout this time have demonstrated a trajectory based on management, sacrifice and work, maintaining the values of tradition, quality and good work of traditional Madrid cuisine... Without forgetting that many chapters in the history of the Town of Madrid have been written within its walls and that thanks to their uniqueness they form a core of tourist attention in themselves that Every visitor who comes to our city should know.
The restaurants and taverns that make up the Association of Centenariosde Madrid Restaurants and Taverns (RCM) are:
- Ardosa Winery
- Swag
- Cafe Gijon
- Alberto House
- Ciriaco House
- Labra House
- Pedro House
- Grandfather's House
- The Mallorquina
- Lhardy
- The Caves of Luis Candelas
- Malacatin
- Antonio Sánchez Tavern
- La Villa Inn