Every day is like Sunday
Pro Classy dishes, well presented.
Con Control the saltshaker!
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Per Person Shared starter, main, shared dessert, 2 beers. €30. El tenedor discount may be doable.
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In Short
Hopes? A bit of class.
Reality? Some very nicely presented food.
First Impressions? Malasaña condensed into a room.
A USP? Argentinian flavours, aspirational ambience.
The food in three words? Tasty but salty.
Service, please! One very hard-working cheerful server for the whole place.
Rating for dating? A largely carnivorous menu might be a hindrance.
Tip? 5%
Change one thing? Hey Bill Nye, Science Guy. What do you call it?
Going back? Yep.
Compare & Contrast
Cheaper, similar sensibilities at La Prodiga.
Outdoors at El Rincon.
In Pictures
On Google Images
What's the story?
La Dominga is a long-term successful, smartly presented, quality locale with food that very nearly matched up to expectations from past visits.
The accent's Argentinian-Spanish, and we stayed on home turf for a refreshing starter. A nicely chilled Salmorejo which could have been a bit more seasoned and would have benefited from the ham being a bit more chopped. Slices don't quite work on this dish, cubes or smaller shavings would be wiser.
Mains brought the best of both worlds An excellent cut of vacio, with a generous portion of chips and some probably homemade chimichurri looked good. The meat was properly al punto, and the billed rosemary oil came though very well. Only downer? A chef, who even, by Madrid's Olympic standards, was very very keen on the NaCl. I reckoned the CC was homemade partly on the sodium content. A nice acidic, palate-cleansing salad was an excellent detail, but it had a double-dose of the white stuff, too. When there's enough salt that the lettuce turns gritty, you know someone's got carried away. Or has unfulfilled ambitions to be a snowplough driver.
Sadly, that driving ambition extended to the generous huevos rotos. A quality portion size, two eggs and three-plus slices of ham. Like those with the steak, these chips, looking like frozen ones, needed another 30 seconds to crisp properly. And, please, less
Dessert, shared, was back on the Argentine theme. A decent dulce de leche crepe, the icecream seemed more coffee than toffee, but this is a classy looking and effective dessert, although the crepe welding itself to the plate meant for some serious caramel scraping by the end.
Weekday lunch in July meant beer seemed a wiser choice than wine. We can give a happy thumbs up to Brabante. Certainly not the most common brew in town, it makes a fine draft. Very nice!
Service was excellent. No mean achievement for one server to successfully work two rooms, including preparing all the drinks and coffee. Not to be underrated.
A decent lunch and with an El Tenedor discount, not bad value.
Pro Classy dishes, well presented.
Con Control the saltshaker!
Pay
€€€
Per Person Shared starter, main, shared dessert, 2 beers. €30. El tenedor discount may be doable.
Find
Website Here you go.
Access One small step.
In Short
Hopes? A bit of class.
Reality? Some very nicely presented food.
First Impressions? Malasaña condensed into a room.
A USP? Argentinian flavours, aspirational ambience.
The food in three words? Tasty but salty.
Service, please! One very hard-working cheerful server for the whole place.
Rating for dating? A largely carnivorous menu might be a hindrance.
Tip? 5%
Change one thing? Hey Bill Nye, Science Guy. What do you call it?
Going back? Yep.
Compare & Contrast
Cheaper, similar sensibilities at La Prodiga.
Outdoors at El Rincon.
In Pictures
On Google Images
What's the story?
La Dominga is a long-term successful, smartly presented, quality locale with food that very nearly matched up to expectations from past visits.
Weekday lunch in July meant beer seemed a wiser choice than wine. We can give a happy thumbs up to Brabante. Certainly not the most common brew in town, it makes a fine draft. Very nice!
Service was excellent. No mean achievement for one server to successfully work two rooms, including preparing all the drinks and coffee. Not to be underrated.
A decent lunch and with an El Tenedor discount, not bad value.