FOR CARNIVAL......WE'RE GOING ON SARDINES! 2024

2024/02/12

The program " The Courtship of the Sardine: We're going sardines!" (download it HERE ) celebrates its fifth edition in Carnival 2024 with a tour of more than a hundred places in the city where you can taste original versions of the “carnival sardine”.

Punctual to its appointment, on Thursday, February 8, 40 days before the Holy Thursday holiday, the Carnival week of 2024 begins, which will end on Wednesday, February 14, Ash Wednesday.

One more year the city will enjoy parades, workshops, cultural activities... and the Great Carnival Parade, which will once again travel through the streets through the areas of Madrid Río and Matadero Madrid, which will become the epicenter of the carnival festivities.

And since there is no party that is not celebrated around a table, with a typical dish or dessert, with the Carnival returns the fifth edition of the " El Cortejo de la Sardina" route, an initiative in which more than a hundred establishments (market stalls, pastry shops, restaurants, hotels...) offer their special and original interpretations of the sardine, the undisputed protagonist of one of the most traditional celebrations of these holidays, the Burial of the Sardine. Discover them here!

This initiative, promoted by the General Directorate of Commerce, Hospitality and Consumer Affairs of the Madrid City Council (Area of Economy, Innovation and Finance), in collaboration with the Madrid Markets and the ACYRE associations (Association of Chefs and Pastry Chefs of Madrid), ASEMPAS (Association of artisan pastry shops of Madrid), the Association of Hoteliers of Ponzano and AMER (Madrid Association of Restaurant Companies), the chefs and merchants of nearly a hundred pastry shops, market stalls, cafes and restaurants that They have presented their original proposals, sweet and savory, turning simple sardines into the stars of succulent sweets, signature dishes and tapas.

The sardine has been a source of inspiration for chefs, cooks, pastry chefs and pastry chefs, who have made the most select desserts, cookies and chocolates and prepared multiple and original salty versions of smoked, battered, fried, pickled sardines, in ceviche or marinated, in empanada, in paella, pizza or arepas, accompanied by cheese, guacamole, ratatouille or papada.