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Bar La Catapa, Calle Menorca, 14, Madrid (Zona Retiro). Phone: 686 14 38 23.
"Today we have tripe with garbanzos" on the blackboard and "Beer is
proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy" - - Benjamin Franklin,
inscribed on a post at Bar La Catapa, Calle Menorca, 14, Madrid (Zona
Retiro). Phone: 686 14 38 23. La Catapa is rated as one of the top
gastrobars in Madrid. Luckily, we passed on the tripe at la Catapa,
especially since that was the only dish offered to us at La Tasquería de
Javi Estévez. Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017
Erizos del mar (sea urchins) on a tapas prowl with Colman
Andrews, Editorial Director of The Daily Meal and Spanish cuisine expert
at Bar La Catapa, Calle Menorca, 14, Madrid (Zona Retiro). Phone: 686
14 38 23. La Catapa is rated as one of the top gastrobars in Madrid,
Jan 24, 2017. Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017
Exceptional alcachofas (artichokes), which we suspect may
have been "poached" in olive oil, on a tapas prowl with Colman Andrews,
Editorial Director of The Daily Meal and Spanish cuisine expert at Bar
La Catapa, Calle Menorca, 14, Madrid (Zona Retiro). Phone: 686 14 38
23. La Catapa is rated as one of the top gastrobars in Madrid, Jan. 24,
2017. Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017
Miguel Ángel Jiménez, owner of Taberna la Catapa, Madrid, Feb. 1, 2018.
Photo by Gerry Dawes©2018
Photo by Gerry Dawes©2018
About Gerry Dawes
Gerry Dawes is the author of Sunset in a Glass: Adventures of a Food and Wine Road Warrior in Spain Volume I Enhanced Photography Version (now in Second Edition), available on Amazon.
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.
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Gerry Dawes can be reached at gerrydawes@gmail.com; Alternate e-mail (use only if your e-mail to AOL is rejected): gerrydawes@spanishartisanwine.com
Gerry Dawes can be reached at gerrydawes@gmail.com; Alternate e-mail (use only if your e-mail to AOL is rejected): gerrydawes@spanishartisanwine.com
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