The string of terrace bars and restaurants along Calle de Serrano and Calle Ortega y Gasset that constitutes Salamanca's most visible eating and drinking scene. This is where the neighbourhood comes for long weekend lunches: white tablecloths, good wine lists, and traditional Spanish cooking done carefully — cocido madrileño, roast suckling pig, grilled fish.
El Paraguas on Calle Jorge Juan and José Luis on Calle Serrano are the most enduring of the traditional restaurants. For tapas, the streets around Calle Claudio Coello have a cluster of good bar-restaurants with outside tables. The Salamanca eating scene runs to a different pace from the rest of Madrid — later starts, longer meals, higher prices. Metro Serrano or Velázquez.