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El Mercado de San Miguel re-opened several months ago after a multi-year restoration project. El Mercado de San Miguel may strike you at first as a little too slick, a little too precious, a little too studied and light years from what you might expect from old Madrid, but this beautifully renovated market, just steps from the Plaza Mayor, has become the hottest tapas destination in Madrid.
Many of the stands are market bars, where you can consume what you purchase at the counter or at one of the communal tables in the common areas. In the daytime, there are shoppers and noshers. At night, the Mercado is packed with people, many of them 20s-30s something picking away a 1-Euro slices of smoked salmon, impeccable cheeses from Josè Luìs Martìn's Fromagerie, mariscos from the shellfish purveyor and sexy wines from Pinkleton's Wine Bar. Here is a slide show of my first images. I will have more from three visits. Don't miss El Mercado de San Miguel!
El Mercado San Miguel (www.mercadodesanmiguel.es), along Cava San Miguel, just off the Plaza Mayor.
Slide show of El Mercado de San Miguel.
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Gerry Dawes was awarded Spain's prestigious Premio Nacional de Gastronomía (National Gastronomy Award) in 2003. He writes and speaks frequently on Spanish wine and gastronomy and leads gastronomy, wine and cultural tours to Spain. He was a finalist for the 2001 James Beard Foundation's Journalism Award for Best Magazine Writing on Wine, won The Cava Institute's First Prize for Journalism for his article on cava in 2004, was awarded the CineGourLand “Cinéfilos y Gourmets” (Cinephiles & Gourmets) prize in 2009 in Getxo (Vizcaya) and received the 2009 Association of Food Journalists Second Prize for Best Food Feature in a Magazine for his Food Arts article, a retrospective piece about Catalan star chef, Ferran Adrià.
In December, 2009, Dawes was awarded the Food Arts Silver Spoon Award in a profile written by José Andrés.
". . .That we were the first to introduce American readers to Ferran Adrià in 1997 and have ever since continued to bring you a blow-by-blow narrative of Spain's riveting ferment is chiefly due to our Spanish correspondent, Gerry "Mr. Spain" Dawes, the messianic wine and food journalist raised in Southern Illinois and possessor of a self-accumulated doctorate in the Spanish table. Gerry once again brings us up to the very minute. . ." - - Michael & Ariane Batterberry, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher and Founding Editor/Publisher, Food Arts, October 2009.
Mr. Dawes is currently working on a reality television series
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