All Madrid Travel and Holiday Guide Blog

Spanish countries are a combination of different cuisine from the different regions such like the regions of Castilia, Galicia, the Basque regions, Valencia and entire part of the Mediterranean. Most of the cuisines in the Spanish countries are rich in flavours, varied and expansive. For the Spanish people drinking and eating is one of their ways of life.

As one of the Spanish regions eating in Madrid is cheaper compared the other European regions; most of the cuisines being served here featured fine frequency. In Madrid breakfast are mostly eaten at the bar with a milky coffee or café con leche in Spanish and addition to that is a croissant or a sweet roll. Most of the time, the locales in Madrid leave each of their offices at 10:00 AM to take some churros con chocolate or curls of fried doughnut-like batter which is eating with a partner of hot chocolate melt. If a certain restaurant serves Churros con Chocolate, they are considered one of the famous restaurants in town. The Café San Gines is just one of them. You can also have a try in Cacao Sampaka and at Valor; they also have excellent chocolate to try.

The main meal of the day in Madrid or in the entire Spanish regions is in between 1:30 and 4:00 PM which is the lunch period. During Madrid’s lunch time period most of the restaurants in the region offer a lunchtime menu which they called “Menu del Dia”. The lunch period in Madrid is consisting of three meal course that include a cheap house wine. But if you opted to choose a premium wine, you have to pay for it, yet house wines are also good. This meal time in Madrid can be found in any restaurants, you can always dine in many restaurants of the city in a very approachable price.

While dinner in Madrid is eaten in between 9:00 to 11:00 PM and tapas is inseparable included during the dinner period.