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Michelin-starred revival of grand-hotel dining-room luxury
Madrid's old-money quarter, where luxury retail meets white-tablecloth classics and the city's finest seafood.
Laid out on a strict 19th-century grid, Salamanca is Madrid's address for old money and serious appetite, where the luxury flagships of Calle Serrano and Velázquez sit above white-tablecloth classics and some of the city's best seafood and sushi. This is where the Pescaderías Coruñesas houses land Galician catch each morning and where a tortilla at Mercado de la Paz can matter as much as a tasting menu. For an Istanbul visitor it reads as the Nişantaşı analogue: composed, monied and quietly demanding.
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Michelin-starred revival of grand-hotel dining-room luxury
Two-star chef's most personal 10-seat room in Salamanca
Pescaderías Coruñesas' Salamanca seafood institution
Madrid's championship tortilla inside Mercado de la Paz
Persian market cuisine from a one-woman kitchen
Cantabrian cooking in a minimalist-chic Salamanca townhouse
DiverXO's three-star chef's wild street-food counter
Mediterranean-leaning Japanese with a six-seat sushi bar
High-end Tokyo-style sushi and robata in Salamanca
The chef who brought Nikkei to Spain, on his own terms
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1931 gourmet grocer with 1,500-plus wines
Loewe's house-like flagship in a 19th-century Serrano building
Salamanca's real neighbourhood food market
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