Two tables: Review of Deessa, Quique Dacosta’s new Michelin starred restaurant at Madrid’s Ritz...
IT must be easily the most elegant restaurant in the capital.
A true sense of grandeur awaits the lucky diners who get to try out Deessa, the hippest new Michelin-star restaurant of Quique Dacosta at the Ritz Hotel.
Spain’s chef of the moment had to be...
Mandarin Oriental Ritz: Welcome to the lap of luxury in Spain’s capital Madrid
FROM the sitting room of my suite I can see the queue for the ticket office at the Prado and the entrance of the Thyssen Museum across the regal fountains of the Plaza de Neptuno. And if it weren’t for the densely tree-lined Paseo...
REVIEW: Style and substance after stunning overhaul of Madrid hotel Rosewood Villa Magna
Big team effort behind five-star relaunch in Madrid's upmarket Barrio Salamanca, writes Jon Clarke
INTERVIEW: Meet Quique Dacosta, the chef behind Deessa restaurant at Madrid’s Mandarin Oriental Ritz...
The culinary genius is bringing his exquisite dishes to Madrid from Valencia, and has just won a Michelin star for his restaurant at the Ritz.
DiverXo: ‘World’s best chef’ David Muñoz raises price tag to become the most expensive...
JUST months after Spain’s culinary whizz kid David 'Dabiz' Muñoz was voted ‘Best Chef in the World’ he has upped the price of a tasting menu at his three-Michelin-starred restaurant DiverXo to an eye-watering €365.
The ‘enfant terrible’ of Spain’s restaurant scene has raised the price...
IN PICS: Dine in the Madrid sky at the tallest restaurant in Spain
IT BRINGS new meaning to the term ‘haute cuisine’; A new restaurant has opened in a Madrid skyscraper to become the highest dining establishment in all of Spain.
Elkar opened this week on the 33 rd floor of the Torre Emperador in the capital’s business...
REVIEW: Madrid’s three star DiverXo exceeds expectations for the tastebuds and the wallet
With news that Dabiz Muñoz has just been named the world's best chef, check out the review by Olive Press editor Jon Clarke of DiverXo restaurant in Madrid.
Madrid’s Retiro park just won UNESCO status but it hides a shameful secret for...
CAMPAIGNERS are calling for recognition of a shameful period in the history of Madrid’s Retiro park when people would come to stare wide-eyed at live exhibits in a ‘human zoo’.
When news came through last month that Madrid’s Retiro Park had been awarded with the...
REVIEW: Madrid’s born-again Gran Hotel Ingles is the lap of Belle Epoque luxury
Many original features have been saved, from time-faded photos of guests to vintage postcards and an ancient typewriter by the lifts
IN PICS: Cristiano Ronaldo’s new luxury hotel opens its doors in Spain’s Madrid
CRISTIANO Ronaldo's luxury brand CR7 opened its new flagship hotel on Madrid's Gran Via on Monday.
The soft rollout of the third hotel bearing the CR7 brand took place to coincide with the possibility of the easing of COVID-19 restrictions to tourists to the capital....
Calling all adventurers: ‘Zarajos’ and ‘entresijos’ – tried the weird Spanish food from Madrid?
Jon Clarke tests his tastebuds with a few of the culinary oddities of Madrid
REVOLUTION!: The best places to eat in Spain’s Madrid
MADRID has gone through a food revolution since I lived there in the early 1990s when it was literally all about roast suckling pig, pinchos de tortilla and there was just one vegetarian restaurant, near the Retiro.
Today, it has as buzzing a food scene...
Capital pleasures: Plan a trip to Madrid this Spring, it has so much to...
IT was a bright, sunny New Year’s Day in 2007 and we were walking out of the Ritz hotel down Paseo de la Castellana en route to a morning’s sightseeing at the Prado gallery.
What could possibly go wrong? Our seven-month-old daughter, that’s what.
Wailing from...
ROYAL TREATMENT: Madrid’s Westin Palace Hotel is used to hosting the rich and famous...
THE staff at Madrid’s Westin Palace Hotel are long used to dealing with guests with masks.
In fact it was over 30 years ago that they welcomed mask-clad germ-phobe celebrity Michael Jackson to their esteemed five-star establishment.
Arriving with his young family the American singer insisted...
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Once home to sailors, potters, Flamenco dancers and bullfighters: Why you should visit Sevilla’s Triana
ONCE home to sailors, potters, Flamenco dancers and bull-fighters, Triana’s rich history is as colourful as its buildings which light up the river bank...
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Spain’s tourism sector hopeful of record-breaking Easter
SPAIN’S Easter break, which officially got underway at 3pm on Friday, is set to be a record-breaking one for the tourism sector, as the...
