Madrid's Tapas Bars

The taberna offers a warm salad of partridge and bitter greens scattered with pomegranate seeds.

Savor the decadent canapé of whipped blue cheese and cured-duck ham at La Castela, which still generously honors the ritual of serving a free nibble w

Gambas al ajillo (garlic shrimp) has been a specialty at the tiled taberna for some 100 years.

Batter-fried bacalao is crispest at Casa Revuelta, a tatty dive frozen in time off the stern, arcaded Plaza Mayor, the heart of Hapsburg Madrid.

The taberna stocks the latest emerging vintages (try wines from the Madrid region).

Order the saucy albóndigas with a glass of vermú de (vermouth on

Order featherlight tempura of baby vegetables highlighted with a sweet-tart reduction of sherry vinegar. It seems incongruous, feasting on truffled be

Neither folksy nor funky nor fashionable, this brightly bourgeois bar swathed in polished wood is attached to the restaurant inside the Santiago _Bern

Lhardy is a grand 19th-century museum piece famous for its burnished interiors and cocido