Food Hall Galería Canalejas — Restaurant in Madrid

I really like the ambiente here as it seems more refined in comparison to the other food markets. However, the food is more or less the same: it looks great but it‘s mediocre and mostly just made for tourists. As the majority of the food is reheated, it loses in taste & quality in my opinion. Even the freshly prepared pulpo wasn‘t that convincing as it was rather chewy and at 25€ definitely overpriced.

So it‘s definitely worth a visit but just remember that there are many other places where you get better food for less money, and also with...

Wow! A huge variety of stalls selling tapas of all sorts. Clean modern setting, tables in the center where you wait for your food to be delivered from whichever stalls you have ordered.

We were particularly impressed by one stall with scallops on a half shell with a garlicky sauce, and another with fresh jumbo shrimp in shell flash fried in a different garlic saffron sauce.

Will definitely return for the variety of dishes to choose from. Stall owners friendly.

Topped off lunch tapas with excellent gelato at one...

Overall disappointed. Cheese plate/board at V.O had rotten fruit, stale bread and what is best described as the grocery store equivalent of cheese (cheap American cheddar, low quality blue cheese, Swiss cheese (I actually like cheddar, Swiss, etc but for the price point it was very disappointing that the quality of cheese was very low)). We did get the ragu, wine and bao from other place and the rest of the food hall is fairly average/decent but steer...