Restaurante El Pitaco

Traditional Spanish cooking in Ciudad Lineal

El Pitaco sits in Madrid’s Ciudad Lineal district, near Arturo Soria, where its kitchen combines familiar Spanish cooking with a polished presentation. The menu opens with Iberian ham, Manchego cheese, Cantabrian anchovies, and seasonal vegetables, then turns to fish and meat: hake with clams, Bilbao-style cod, roast monkfish, grilled steak, and lamb chops.

Several dishes give the restaurant a distinctly Madrid character. Oxtail stew and callos a la madrileña, a slow-cooked tripe dish, sit beside eggs with cod in pil-pil sauce and escabeche-marinated fish. Diners’ comments on the restaurant’s site often single out those slow-cooked and fish dishes, along with attentive service. Half portions make it easy to share several courses across the table.