The kosher restaurant is small, but attractively appointed. Table clothes, wine, Certainly nice enough to bring colleagues.
Serves a mix of locals, tourists, and business travelers who feel comfortable bringing groups of non-Jewish colleagues. It is open lunch and dinner, Sunday through Friday lunch. Spanish-style hours: 2-4:30 and 8:30 to 11pm. You can pick up a cooked meal to take out for Friday night.
The food is good, Moroccan-ish. They serve Moroccon-style cooked vegetable salads and/or pastilla (bite-sized meat turnovers in filo dough) as appetizers. Mains are choice of lamb, beef or chicken with couscous, And the same meats grilled or skewered, in addition to grilling sausage, beef liver, sometimes grilling other organ meats when available. Sausages were very good, but I think the type they make/serve varies. There are sometimes cooked vegetables served with the couscous, sometimes not. Some things not on the menu may be available, other things on the printed menu may not be. Me, I'm grateful to have a lovely restaurant with pretty good food in Madrid.
The thing to understand is that this is a small restaurant, and the offerings can vary from day to day and according to how many business travellers are in Madrid. The food is good. the lamb especially (this is Spain, after all). You Won't be embarrassed by meeting a colleague here. But the menu is simple.
There is also the small carneceria Elias. Very reliably has wide range of frozen meaat, fresh meat available, including cold meat that can be sliced for sandwiches. Small array of cheeses, hummus, tinned fish, wine, groceries mostly French brands.
Delicious fresh bread daily sold at nearby bakery.
community webpage keeps a good, up-to-date listing of the places I've mentioned.
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