Caracoles

Caracoles, snails, stewed in their own sauce. The menu says it's a sin to leave the sauce, so bread comes too.

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A small beer (caña) or a vermouth (vermut)

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Casa Amadeo Los Caracoles

Spanish · taberna · caracoles · Rastro, Madrid

Plaza de Cascorro 18, 28005 Madrid

A tavern on the Plaza de Cascorro, at the top of the Rastro, cooking snails in the same sauce for more than seventy-five years. Its menu calls them the house emblem.

The proof, in the house's own words

Why the caracoles

Strong evidence

Technique
Slow-stewed in the house's own guiso.
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Tradition
The same dish in the same tavern for over seventy-five years.
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Sourcing
A sauce built on Iberian pork.
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Local choice
The house's emblem, the menu says.
“nuestro plato insignia”
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We'd add

Our runner-up

Zarajos

Zarajos, lamb tripe from Cuenca, wound and fried. The second plate, between two.

Made by hand
Cuenca lamb

Tripe at 6 more kitchens

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