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Bartolillo de Crema

Bartolillo, puff pastry filled with pastry cream under icing sugar, made only at the weekend. A box to share.

Antigua Pastelería del Pozo

Spanish · pastry · hojaldre · Sol, Madrid

Calle del Pozo 8, 28012 Madrid

Madrid's oldest pastry shop, on Calle del Pozo, with its marble-and-wood counter still in place; the Leal family has kept it for three generations. The bartolillo, cream pastry, is a weekend thing.

The proof, in the house's own words

Why the bartolillo

Strong evidence
  • Craft

    Made entirely by hand, in the house.

    “de forma totalmente artesanal”

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  • Tradition

    The founding recipes, still followed by the third Leal generation.

    House history ↗

  • Peak timing

    A weekend-only bake.

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  • Local choice

    Made with the puff pastry the house says made its name.

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