Specialty: Cheese
Name: Poncelet Cheese Bar
Address: C / De José Abascal, 61. Madrid.
Province: Madrid
Tel: 913992550
Website: www.ponceletcheesebar.es
E-Mail: info@ponceletcheesebar.es
Poncelet Cheese Bar, unique space
The cheese lovers can choose in Poncelet Cheese Bar, The first cheese bar in Spain, between 150 kinds of craftsmen from 11 countries to set up a table. As well as other dishes made with any of them. In addition to raclettes and fondues, cheese it complements meat, fish, pasta, rice and salads. The menu offers starters such as Manchego cheese chocolates, salad Burrata di Corato with bluefin tuna or a Risotto mushrooms with cheese sbrink. Also confit cod with fine cream of pourrusalda with Idazabal de Pastor Smoked cheese and beef tail stewed in red wine and boneless with Altejo cheese.
The selection of wines It is wide and varied, it is dominated by whites, those that best combine with cheese, but there are also reds, cavas, champagnes, sweet wines and craft beers.
In addition to the restaurant, a space inspired by the old singers that used to hold milk, there is also an informal bar that includes cold dishes -as mussel preserves with creamy Arzua Ulloa kimchi or roast beef gua Bao with ragusano cheese, spicy mayonnaise and pickles- and hot such as veal meatballs with arribes cheese emulsion, Murcia cheese provoletta in wine with truffled tomato puree and raclette toast, pickles and tomatoes or Madrid-style tripe and snouts with goat cheese from Fresnedillas de la Oliva.
History of the bar
El Poncelet Cheese Bar It was inaugurated in 2011, followed three years later by its brother's opening in Barcelona. The story of poncelet started in 2004 with the opening of a store in Madrid, specialized in cheeses. Already in 2009 he created a cheese refining center, the first and only so far in Spain. In these facilities, what is known as 'tuning' is carried out, which serves so that each cheese reaches its perfect degree of maturity. This before being sold.
