- Family-run since 1972, Sacha Hormaechea at the pass
- Tortilla vaga, callos a la madrileña, lubina al horno
- Calle Juan Hurtado de Mendoza 11, Chamartín
- Lunch and dinner, closed Sundays
Sacha is the kitchen the chefs of Madrid book on their own night off — a small, dark, family room where Sacha Hormaechea has cooked for fifty years and where the menu is read off a board and trusted. The tortilla vaga is the dish the city sends to the Basque country to compete with; the lubina is the lubina by which others are measured. Reservations by phone only.
Book lunch at two, take the wine list seriously, eat what is on the board that day. The kind of room that the guide never reviews and that everyone who has eaten in Madrid for thirty years already knows.
Book it for the dinner the chefs would book.
