Setting out the stall
Pro Most enjoyable food and drink shopping in town.
Con You'll need your own wheels. Like these:
Find
Website Here.
Access Largely step-free, but very uneven surfaces.
In Pictures
On Google Images
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What's the story?
Our previous visits are here and a plan, with the numbers we've used, is here.
There's wine tasting (with a glass to take away) and various freshly cooked tapas are available each month, with at least one V-option on offer. A special is usually ready around 1pm. Pick up tickets for drinks and food at the wooden hut on the left as you enter. A regular raffle/sorteo is run online.
If you don't bring your bags for life or nick your mother in law's shopping trolley, paper bags are provided at most stalls.
Grinder
Supracafe (Around No. 60) Website
Now appearing in cafes and restaurants, Supra are getting it right. As well as selling drinks on site, beans and milled coffee in smart vacuum packs are available, with two ranges, including the outstanding white-packed premium range. You'll get asked how you want your purchase ground. Or is that grinded?
Oil yourself up
Fructum & Posito (Usually found between 30 and 29)
Two first-class oil providers, both with prize winners and special editions. Simplest tasting note: the darker the green, the better.
Fructum, staffed by a charming family, have a delicious award-winner. It'll cost you €10, but it's a quick way to teach friends that different oils really do taste different. Posito have an excellent oil in a can, and another in a beautiful white bottle. Both are milder than the Fructum prize winner.
Naughty but nice
El Horno de Lozoya (Around No. 10) Website
Cakes by weight. We're big fans of the fruit of the forest option. A bit like a (slightly soggy-bottomed, we must say) bakewell pudding. Buy by weight.
Milking it
La Colmenareña (Around No. 4) Website
Staffed by a friendly chap, often seen in a cap, milk's around €0.90 a litre, there's butter, natillas/custard and cuajada on offer too,
Eat your greens!
Fruit and Veg
You'll be spoilt for choice. Our regular is no. 28/9, but just follow the longest queues, which mirror the best price/quality combination. You'll know what produce is best as you'll see shoppers hefting huge bags of it away as you arrive. Leeks in winter, tomatoes in summer are two highlights. Prices tend to be a fraction of supermarket rates.
Meaty Moments
Beef, Ox, Veal. Website.
The excellent cuts from La Finca (usally around no. 23) are some of our favourites. Excellently priced lamb and goat are also to be found around stalls 13-16.
Wine not?
Madrid wines may not top Spain's greatest hits, but there are good ones out there. Vino Jeromín (usually around no. 25) has a quality range. You'll find cheaper but enjoyable options including this one usually at no.55.
Pro Most enjoyable food and drink shopping in town.
Con You'll need your own wheels. Like these:
Website Here.
Access Largely step-free, but very uneven surfaces.
In Pictures
On Google Images
.
What's the story?
Our previous visits are here and a plan, with the numbers we've used, is here.
There's wine tasting (with a glass to take away) and various freshly cooked tapas are available each month, with at least one V-option on offer. A special is usually ready around 1pm. Pick up tickets for drinks and food at the wooden hut on the left as you enter. A regular raffle/sorteo is run online.
If you don't bring your bags for life or nick your mother in law's shopping trolley, paper bags are provided at most stalls.
Grinder
Supracafe (Around No. 60) Website
Now appearing in cafes and restaurants, Supra are getting it right. As well as selling drinks on site, beans and milled coffee in smart vacuum packs are available, with two ranges, including the outstanding white-packed premium range. You'll get asked how you want your purchase ground. Or is that grinded?
Oil yourself up
Fructum & Posito (Usually found between 30 and 29)
Two first-class oil providers, both with prize winners and special editions. Simplest tasting note: the darker the green, the better.
Fructum, staffed by a charming family, have a delicious award-winner. It'll cost you €10, but it's a quick way to teach friends that different oils really do taste different. Posito have an excellent oil in a can, and another in a beautiful white bottle. Both are milder than the Fructum prize winner.
Naughty but nice
El Horno de Lozoya (Around No. 10) Website
Cakes by weight. We're big fans of the fruit of the forest option. A bit like a (slightly soggy-bottomed, we must say) bakewell pudding. Buy by weight.
Milking it
La Colmenareña (Around No. 4) Website
Staffed by a friendly chap, often seen in a cap, milk's around €0.90 a litre, there's butter, natillas/custard and cuajada on offer too,
Eat your greens!
Fruit and Veg
You'll be spoilt for choice. Our regular is no. 28/9, but just follow the longest queues, which mirror the best price/quality combination. You'll know what produce is best as you'll see shoppers hefting huge bags of it away as you arrive. Leeks in winter, tomatoes in summer are two highlights. Prices tend to be a fraction of supermarket rates.
Meaty Moments
Beef, Ox, Veal. Website.
The excellent cuts from La Finca (usally around no. 23) are some of our favourites. Excellently priced lamb and goat are also to be found around stalls 13-16.
Wine not?
Madrid wines may not top Spain's greatest hits, but there are good ones out there. Vino Jeromín (usually around no. 25) has a quality range. You'll find cheaper but enjoyable options including this one usually at no.55.