72 HOUR VEGAN FOOD CRAWL & TOUR GUIDE IN MADRID, SPAIN | 10 RESTAURANTS TO EAT VEGAN IN MADRID
Vegan food has never looked so good in Spain's largest city Madrid. I'm Eunice and I'm going to tell you all the good food spots and tourist attractions to see from my three-day stay in Madrid so let's go. To start the trip I met with a local vegan foodie, Israel, to show me around Rastro, a weekly flea market in the Lavapies neighborhood where you can often get free tapas with your drinks so our first stop was one of Israel's top picks I'm here with local vegan foodie Israel he has a vegan channel as well. Israel right yeah that's right so if you want to know about local vegan food in Madrid this is where you come to check it out so tell me where are we right now. We are in Lavapies and we are in a market, a covered market and there are so many stalls and we are lucky that there is a fully vegan style so yeah and it's like traditional style tapas right yeah very traditional so we ordered a couple drinks and they gave us a free tapa which is common right in Sundays you're saying yeah in Madrid like it changes in every part of Spain it changes but in Madrid when you order a drink you will get a free tapa always. I like that free snacks with your drink! So we got carried away, we ordered way too much food but that's what happens when it's your first meal and you want to try all the tapas. So we've got papas gajo which is like potato wedges and it
has like an aioli tartar sauce with it and then we have timbal which is like a quinoa bean salad, the free little tapas which are just a little bread with hummus and avocado and then the choripan which is chorizo and pan, so chorizo and bread and they serve it to you like a bocadillo, a sandwich but if you want to just eat the chorizo by itself you can do that too so let's go let's go let's dig in yeah I'm gonna start with the because I love potatoes okay I'm gonna start with the hummus with the pimenton the potatoes come with a nice tartar and aoli. Oo the poatoes are really good well yes it's so good yeah yeah yeah let me try yeah hummus is so good so one of my favorite things here in spain yeah paprika where they get it from and it has such a distinct flavor you can't find it in the states yeah in fact this is what i'm taking home with me at souvenirs i am it's a good flavor the texture is really good it doesn't have a strong weird fake meat flavor yeah i know it's natural it's good i like it so a really cool thing about this place is that they make everything in-house all the chorizos all the ingredients everything's made here they don't buy like vegan meats from vegan vendors everything's made in-house which is nice so if you're ever in la la pies in madrid come to the mercado san fernando because it's a place worth checking out for sure yeah you should definitely jump if you're around and uh yeah this torito is so so good i like the texture and with the olive oil and so on it's amazing love it spoken from a motherland afterward it was time to try one of madrid's favorite tortilla spots we are at viva chapatta which is known to have the best vegan tortilla right that's what everybody says yeah that's right that you can commonly have they give you this huge portion here and it's amazing like just look at the size of the thing from the display it looks legit like you you wouldn't know it wasn't vegan right like yeah it looked real i was like wow so i was going to try it so it's served tomate right yeah it's made with chickpea flour that's usually the base of all the vegan tortillas oh it's good it was really good this one's not as moist i've had more voices before yeah sure but it's good the flavor is really good yeah yeah yeah i have eaten a lot i am spanish so before i went vegan i don't know if i could i could tell the difference between this one and a real one like it's so so close yeah just looking at the color it looks exactly light you can tell that they steam the potatoes because it's not super oily or anything so yeah i like that next it was time to satisfy our sweet tooth so there was one spot we couldn't miss out on freedom cakes they have a variety of vegan ice creams cakes pastries and toppings to make the craziest vegan milkshakes okay i am at freedom cakes and i'm going to eat this as fast as possible because we ordered a freak shake has a cake on top oreo milkshake vegan whipped cream a palmera rice krispies an extra serving of hazelnut ice cream we were ambitious so it's about to fall apart so i'm gonna eat this before it falls apart oh my god okay this is so good they put a lot of extra milk in the milkshake so it doesn't taste a lot like the oreo ice cream but once you hit it with the death by chocolate cake it's the perfect combination oh my word if you're a dessert lover you need to get one of these freak shakes the puerta del sol is a public square in madrid one of the best known and busiest places in the city and it's the center of the radial network of spanish roads walking past the square you'll eventually reach gaiao another main square where the cena's gael is an iconic theater and one of the most photographed sites in the square and it's also where you will find a lot of street artists before getting to one of my favorite lunch stops i made sure to stop by one of my ladies many vegan donut shops delish vegan donuts specializes in epic vegan donuts including this stuffed mac and cheese donut with coconut bacon and orange creme brulee they are amazing and a must try so for lunch i had to stop by one of my days best gems and all vegan peruvian restaurant hola a is okay so i've gotten my first dish here at los angeles and hello if you know peruvian food you know you gotta get ceviche so i've gotten of course their ceviche that looks amazing where the base is mushrooms instead of fish and they serve it to you with toasted plantain chips fresh corn and you have toasted corn a potato puree it just looks absolutely beautiful they put some nori on there to give it that marine touch and of course it's topped with that's like their marinade that ceviche is known to have so that's of course this is something you have to try okay so let's give this a try it is so fresh and acidic and spicy because i asked for spicy sauce too the perfect combination that you need for ceviche the mushrooms really go do a good of replacing fish so if you love ceviche or have loved ceviche and you want a good option mushrooms is the way to go such a great dish like you cannot come to madrid and miss out on this place you have to come here okay so i have my main dish now or dishes i should say because i was special enough to get a little sample platter of all these different dishes that i wanted to try because i wanted to try them all but typically these dishes are sold separately as their own entree so i have the lomo saltado which is a fusion from asian influence because peru has a lot of asian influence so this is used with a wok method to flambe the beef so they use seitan and the texture on this looks unreal then we got which is another typical dish but it's usually calluses which they've replaced with mushrooms and it's usually served on top of a potato and veggie stew and then they've chopped it with a fried egg on top where they buy the egg but then they make their own egg yolk amazing then we have papa salad which is a typical peruvian dish as well where they have a yellow sauce on top of this hot steamy potato and of course served with rice okay so i'm going to try the cow cow now oh my gosh the flavor is amazing super comfort food and that vegan egg the texture of the fried egg awesome and it makes it just so much better wow this is something i highly recommend you try this on the menu okay now i'm gonna try the lomo saltado with some french fries and tomatoes oh my gosh the texture of that beef seitan is that is the most legit vegan meat i've tried in terms of texture it's almost identical it's swamped you can smell the smoky flavor when you eat it last but not least with the thumbs on top and of course some rice i thought the cold sauce that they serve on top of it was going to change the temperature a lot but no with the steamy hot potato it cools it down to the perfect temperature so all of this is amazing the cow cow i think is my favorite it's nice to try something different besides ceviche you know that everybody knows about persian food but this is a place where you're going to try real peruvian flavors with a vegan touch in maduri okay so you know you can't leave any restaurant without having desserts so i have the suspiro alimenya which is another traditional peruvian dessert on the bottom we have mahara blanco which is basically but it's soy based and then it's helped with a aquafaba like meringue and it has cinnamon on top has vanilla extract some clove cinnamon it just looks amazing so i'm gonna try this wow and then when it's topped with the mint leaf on top oh my gosh this is so good it's light and airy and then of course gotta enjoy with some coffee overall this is an amazing experience here in madrid cuisine that you can't typically find anywhere else so you have to give it a try that's the beauty of madrid is that it's such a metropolitan city and you have cultures from all over you have a big presence of people from south america so you can really enjoy south american cuisine and peruvian is one of them so i really hope you guys give it a try the next morning i had the chance to check out an olive oil factory because you know it's spain so why not oleum is an all-organic oil producer located just 40 minutes outside of madrid city center here you can learn the process of how olive oil is produced but if you actually want to see the olives make sure you go in november while they're in season and of course taste three different versions of olive oil to learn how to identify the highest quality next i was back in the city to try a snack that almost can never be found vegan okay so i'm here for the tequenos mad mad vegan makes venezuelan tequenos if you've ever heard of tequenos they're a venezuelan like treat basically it's pastry stuffed with cheese and you break it apart and it just like oozes out with cheese it's amazing so you never find these and this one makes a vegan version because there's a lot of venezuelan people here in spain so after dipping into the sauce let's give this a try is my first time trying tequenos period so i can't tell you how legit they are but they are tasty i like that they fill them up with cheese they separate with a green aioli and a marmalade so you have a sweet and savory option this place is definitely worth checking out because they have a huge vegan menu burgers and fries tacos a bunch of different things so you gotta check it out not far from me in the malasana neighborhood you will find copacion an all-vegan carniceria aka a vegan meat shop here you can purchase their own line of vegan spanish meats and other favorite vegan items in their shop if you're looking for a nice evening stroll in the city you must visit el retiro this is the equivalent to new york central park this major urban park was built in the middle of the 17th century el retiro is packed with things to see like monuments statues lakes and beautiful buildings the next morning i decided to enjoy a hidden treasure within the city madrid has a chain of retail stores by salvador bachier and each has a hidden garden like restaurant this one near seoul has a garden terrace on the fourth floor so i came for a beautiful experience of having a juice in a hidden rooftop garden well now that i had a healthy juice i was ready to indulge at one of my least favorite junk food bars okay so i am at distributor another popular burger spot here in madrid because they have crazy burgers and other junk food stuff so the cool thing is that you can make your burger to order so i got their hello burger which is soy based and it all comes with potatoes on the side and i added bacon blue cheese melted blue cheese and the potatoes also have melted cheddar cheese because i wanted to try that so you're gonna do something wrong do it right and just go all out okay so first i'm gonna try one of these potatoes because i can't help it drench it all over this cheese so what they do here is they buy blocks of vegan cheese i don't know which brand and then they melt it themselves to make that gooey ooeyness that you love in a burger and potatoes you can't taste the cheddar cheese that much in the potatoes but the potatoes are really good okay now for the star let's eat this burger oh my god this is huge you don't want sauce all over your face you're doing it wrong so it's nice because you can taste the blue cheese in this it's not superstar like real blue cheese but you can still taste that essence of blue cheese so that's nice the red color on this burger is unreal the bacon is pretty good i'm gonna try some of the bacon by itself the bacon is really good i like it and it comes through in the burger if you want a burger satisfaction you need to come here one thing to note here is that it's a small space so you need to reserve because it fills up quick so keep that in mind when coming to visit this restaurant is in the lava pies neighborhood lava pies and malasana are the two top neighborhoods where you can find tons of vegan restaurants so that's something to know if you're looking for a place to stay so highly recommend you gotta come check it out and now it was time for dessert so i made sure to walk through plaza mayor madrid's central square and one of the prettiest open spaces due to its architecture and vibrant street life but i made my way to chocolate 1902 because veganchurros are an experience everyone must have in madrid so you can't come to kuala lude without getting churros why because this is basically the birthplace of chutos the tudors that are most popular with that are thin with the ridges that's enchuro madrid that everybody knows about and so it kind of started here so you kind of have to have it anyways so everyone's going to talk about a famous place called chocolate sanguines but it's not vegan friendly so if you literally just walk one minute around the corner you will find chocolate 1902 they offer a dark chocolate option with no milk in it they offer vegan churros they offer plant-based milk so if you're vegan it's a better option and it's right next door and it's also one of the oldest shooter establishments here in spain so it's of course having my children always a good choice it's crispy it's chewy in the inside it's yummy the chocolate is good and it's nice and it's dark chocolate no milk some of these places will always put milk powder in the chocolate mix and then they make with water so still has milk this one doesn't so come check it out if you want to enjoy a free rooftop view of the city you can go up to the ninth floor of the cortingles on granbia where you will have a food court area and views of the city for my last dinner i couldn't resist and go check out a restaurant that makes avocado the star of the menu okay so i am at avocado love in malasagna another vegan hot spot here in madrid and i couldn't leave without trying this spot because the whole menu is basically surrounded around avocado so if you're an avocado lover you'll love this place and i would have had serious fomo without trying this one particular dish it is a smoked avocado stuffed with textured soy meat and it has a coconut cream sauce on it so anyways let's try this oh my god this is a whole avocado stuffed with something oh my word this looks amazing if you love avocado you will love this it's served warm you mostly come for the experience because when they serve it to you you know it comes off and it like all the smoke comes out it looks really cool but hey this is nothing but good fat right the best way to know a city is to eat it so walk the streets of madrid discover new favorite foods meet up with locals and immerse yourself in the culture catch you later on rated v you
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