a.n.e.l. Tapas & Lounge Bar

Very good food /​tapas. $$/​4 price wise. Excellent friendly service. Homey modern almost shabby chic décor.
So good we went 3 times during our stay cuz it was close to the hotel.
Had the lagrimas de pollo –good, calamares en Su ti to-​squid in ink sauce very good tender and interesting. Always game to try different types of food. Calamares-​very good, tomate con ventresca-​lot more tomatoes than was necessary, Piripi-​ok not really my fav, pringa-​ok these sandwiches not really my fav, Jamon iberico-​Delish must have, matrimonial-​ok not my fav, queso– good, revuelto de papas-​all time favorite Spanish dish — eggs over French fries yum we had this in practically every restaurant we ate tapas at. Love love love. Just be mindful, when they ask you for bread or those chips or little snacks things before the beverage you are paying for it per person. It’s just how they do it in Europe or at least in Spain we’ve noticed.
Wonderful meals. Great for family meals and friends getting together. Seemed like a real family owned place with pics of I assume owner when he was a a kid or maybe they’re his kids. Summer u can sit outside under the canopy and even in winter now I saw people sitting outside (smokers) dining beside the heaters. Very warm and friendly place.
Owner was very personable and stopped by and shook our hands as we left. Nice
WOULD DEFINITELY RECOMMEND and if we go back and stay at he hotel same hotel we’ll definitely eat here again.

Great tapas! Particularly enjoyed the risotto! Atmosphere was wonderful for a couple or small group!

Went here while traveling with group of 10 (including 4 kids) Tapas were excellent. The vegetable tempura and meatballs were particularly good. We also tried the gazpacho (I thought was great), jamon serrano, and croquetas. The kids loved the chicken strips. The great food made up for the somewhat spotty service and unfriendly attitude from some of the staff.

3.5 stars! Great service, extremely fast if you request it. We had a few tapas, the oiled anchovies and olives and the Iberian spiced sausage. We drank local Mahau beer which complimented these simple tapas beautifully. They also gave us some spanish tortillas to sample and delicious toast. Only downside are the prices which are comparable but not competitive.
I recommend this place to any visitors that would like a typical tapas bar experience in Madrid.

Don’t ever never come here if you are traveler, they will find the way charge you more. On the receipt they charged us for bread and chips which we didn’t touch, we asked them and they said it was for table setup, I told them it for bread and chips, and the waiter said he doesn’t understand English. I don’t mind if they charge us for the right reason. DON’T EVER NEVER COME HERE

Lo he tenido en favoritos ni se sabe el tiempo, pero la verdad es que no pude acercarme hasta el otro día, que iba a leer al Retiro y al final un amigo me lió para no leer e irme con él de cervezas. Nos sentamos en la terracita que tienen, que la verdad es que está en una calle muy tranquilita y está muy bien montada y allí que nos pusimos a hablar de todo un poco mientras los dobles seguían cayendo.
En general, bien. Con cada consumición nos traían unas patatas o unas aceitunas, así que no nos costó pasar los dobles. Los camareros bastante simpáticos y serviciales. Me plantearé volver si estoy por la zona, aunque en los precios se nota el pedigrí del barrio.

Great customer service and good food. The lunch menu is a good bang for your buck (starter, main dish, dessert, coffee and alcoholic beverage for € 15).

Paramos a tomar una copa en este local un viernes noche. Frente a otros sitios en los que careces de espacio personal, éste no fue nuestro caso y disfrutamos de una estancia muy agradable. Buena decoración y servicio. Buena música, aunque esto va por gustos. Gran variedad de bebidas y marcas.

I loved this restaurant, and was the only restaurant I felt a need to go twice during my stay in this city. Not far from the plaza de cibeles, and just off the main street, we were lucky enough to find this place because it was just down the road from our hotel, One Shot 04. Thankfully, it was the first place we dined in spain, so we got off on a great start.
With great out-​door seating, a nice setting, and a beautiful and extensive wine list, this place would be great just to come and have a drink. Not that the food is something to balk at! The menu isn’t terribly large and doesn’t offer very much you can’t find anywhere else, but even those things that are pretty common are done better here. The service wasn’t bad by any means, but it wasn’t the best either, and though they do offer a menu, I didn’t find the choices to be appealing – being very basic – though it did seem to be a good deal. A little more on the expensive side, including both food and drinks, it is definitely worth it.
I noticed that another reviewer has pretty much mentioned everything I would want to mention about the food – which is pretty funny – but what the hell, I’ll mention it all again anyway. Unlike most of the time that I ordered the jamon, here it’s lightly cooked and served warm – VERY nice – and the taste and quality of the aged manchego cheese was really good. They also had abondigas in a tasty sauce, though the abondigas themselves had been overcooked. But one of our favorite things about all the food we ate in spain was the tomato sauce served over the bonito; we sopped it all up with our bread and washed it down with wine, and we suggest that you do too.

stopped here for a quick lunch outside. the patio area was quite nice but i keep forgetting that sitting outside in spain also means dealing with the smokers :-(i just had to deal with that.
the tuna salad i had was just ok. the tomato was not sweet at all. overall a disappointment. the tortilla was delicious thank goodness. the lovely waitress who spoke a gazillion languages (spoke to me in french because she thought i was french when i said some french words by mistake when trying to speak broken Spanish) recommended the flan ‘cheesecake’. and yes it was sinfully delicious! get that.
pricey.

The restaurant owner is here to greet you and check on your serves. Tapas dishes excellent. Red wine-​Pinot is fantastic. American music is good but not over powering.

The food is great, the service is fine, and the proprietor socializes with the patrons. This is a comfortable place to get a nice dinner, sit inside or outside, and pass the evening with good company. The jamon Iberico is serves slightly warm, which draws out the oils and is wonderful. This paired nicely with the Manchego cheese and a Pinot noir style Rioja. The tomate sauce on the tuna was awesome.

Todo un sitiazo! Bien decorado y en una ubicación excelente. Muy polivalente porque tienes zona de barra, mesas altas, salón comedor y terraza. Y la carta es muy variada con pinchos, raciones, ensaladas, platos de atún… y puedes pedir medias raciones en muchos de ellos. El servicio también es muy destacable. Atentos y ágiles. Tras una primera caña, bien tirada y acompañada de un buen aperitivo. Probamos media ración de ensaladilla rusa y croquetas. La ensaladilla rusa estaba estupenda. Generosa de zanahoria y una masa muy lograda. Y las croquetas de cocido también estupendas. Después probamos media ración de lagartito (puntas de solomillo a la plancha) estupendo. Y para acabar, tartar de atún. También muy bueno pero me gustaron mas los otros platos. Me fui con ganas de tomarme un copazo, que había bastante gente que sólo venía a eso, pero lo dejamos apra la próxima visita. Lo dicho un sitiazo que tenéis que conocer.

Han pasado sólo dos meses desde que hice la reseña anterior y en tan poco tiempo han cambiado completamente la plantilla del restaurante (creo que sólo queda una camarera de la vez anterior), ya no está la camarera maja, ahora hay un chico poniendo cafés que parece que le cuesta mucho sonreir… no entiendo muy bien porqué la verdad
Si vas a comer ármate de paciencia porque son extremadamente lentos, la comida es buena, la lasaña de atún es riquísima y las lágrimas de pollo rebozado con salsa de mostaza también son dignas de probar, la tempura, la ensaladilla, las albóndigas… de eso no hay queja alguna. Lo único de verdad es la lentitud extrema de los camareros y más si no hay sitio en el piso de arriba y te ponen en la planta de abajo. No puedes tardar 20 min entre que sirves la primera copa de vino y el último botellín de agua, eso es injustificable, imaginaros los platos lo que tardaron en llegar, ¡yo creía que le pegaba un bocado al brazo de mi compañera! Llegamos al restaurante a las 14:10 salimos de allí a las 16:30… Es una pena la verdad porque el sitio no está nada mal, pero yo, que sólo tengo una hora para comer, no me puedo permitirme explayarme tanto entre semana.