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Our dish — the plate we'd order here firstBocadillo de calamares
Fried squid rings packed into a crusty roll
Where it comes fromMadrid's own
Inland Madrid took to fried fish in the 1800s, when the railway and Andalusian tavern keepers brought battered frying. El Brillante by Atocha made the squid roll a bar classic, opening about 1952 by one account, the 1960s by another.
Sources: Silvia Roba, Ayuntamiento de Madrid (2020); Telemadrid (2021); María Sanz, Time Out Madrid (2023).
At Bar El Pescador
Made at the counter to order, the house's own speciality; the same calamares come by the plate too.
From Bar El Pescador's own menu and pages, as we read them in November 2026.
Also on our table
- We'd take the squid roll standing at the bar, with a caña, a small draught beer
Bar El Pescador
Spanish · Madrid bar · raciones and bocadillos · Puerta de Toledo (Ronda de Toledo), Madrid
Ronda de Toledo 2, 28005 Madrid
Puerta de Toledo's centenary bar, for its speciality, the bocadillo de calamares.
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