Meeting in MEATing

Category: Food & Drink January 29, 2013

MEATing

At last, on Monday I settled my debt with my neighbours over the way. I’d been wanting to go to the MEATing restaurant (Villalar, 4), right opposite dASSA bASSA, for ages. Since they opened, I’m always bumping into Vicente Lorente, the restaurant’s owner and key figure. He’s a great guy, originally from the art world, and this is reflected on the walls in MEATing, which display part of his collection.

Category: Art & Culture
January 28, 2013

“The Garden of Earthly Delights”. Hieronymus Bosch, c.1500 A walk round the Prado Museum can unearth secrets only known by lovers of painting. If you look closely at these works you’ll get some “personal” knowledge about their authors, whose self-portraits are hidden away somewhere in the painting.

Category: Sports
January 25, 2013

What better way of starting up this blog than with a tribute to Madrid’s most emblematic space: El Retiro Park.

Category: Food & Drink, With the kids
January 23, 2013

One of the things we most like doing here at home is going out for churros and hot chocolate. Now they’ve become very famous and they’ve travelled all the way to Asia, to countries like China, where they eat them in their own way. We, like good Madrid girls, go to Chocolatería San Ginés, in […]

Heimo-Zobernig Category: Art & Culture
January 22, 2013

The 32nd edition of ARCOmadrid will soon be upon us, a yearly Contemporary Art Fair which attracts thousands of art professionals and experts to our city from all over the world. This international outlook has been the driving force behind all our work for this latest edition, in which participation from overseas galleries exceeds 66% […]

Category: Entertainment
January 18, 2013

For over a year now The Lion King has been taking Madrid by storm, a colossal show which has become yet another icon on Gran Vía. Every evening the Teatro Lope de Vega boasts a full house: no one wants to miss this moving story set in Africa and starring the continent’s most majestic wildlife. When […]

Category: Art & Culture
January 17, 2013

When visiting a city, the first thing you need is somewhere to stay. But that’s not what this post is about. Yes, the Palace and the Ritz are two hotels. Two centrally-located, comfortable, exclusive, classic, punctilious and perfect establishments. But the aim of this post is to help us understand why these two emblematic hotels, […]

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