@PedroPero,
Yes, the Sacha tortilla vaga!
and what a beautiful meal. That broken cheesecake looks amazing!
We have eggs here for dinner all the time, a revuelto (scramble) of whatever.
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Maribel, it’s funny, because I make eggs for dinner at home about once a week, or whenever I have an interesting ingredient to add (last week I had maitake mushrooms and young garlic) …I need to get over my reluctance to order them at a restaurant (including my neglect of a visit to Casa Dani!!). I guess it is just an odd personal quirk but that Tortilla Vaga should cure me of that the moment I put fork to mouth!!!
Everything was amazing, the food, wine ,service and the lovely outdoor garden. @erica1 , if you do return make sure you ask for a table in the garden.
That was my dinner there in 2022, found out about SACHA from “Someone Feed Phil” and Maribel. So glad I went.
It’s a beautiful night here in Madrid land, so I’m glad you were able to enjoy the lovely garden.
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I was very lucky that night with the weather. As Erica and others have mentioned, it was a bit tricky to find the restaurant after being dropped off by the taxi. But I did eventually find it after some tense moments 
About eggs at night in Spanish or Madrid restaurants,
the more informal members of the Cañadío group (La Maruca, La Primera, Gran Café Santander) will always feature their noted tortilla española, as will Juana la Loca in La Latina, La Catapa in Retiro and the La Ancha group (Las Tortillas de Gabino & Fismuler in Chamberí), and even the new Dani García Tragabuches on Ortega y Gasset features eggs at night (for Dani, it’s without onions!)
And there are places in Madrid quite famous for their “broken eggs”, or huevos rotos/huevos estrellados with potatoes (unfortunately a calorie bomb), like the uber famous Casa Lucio on the Cava Baja.
Arzábal in the Retiro district makes a skillet of eggs with truffles (yumm!)
Salino, also in the Retiro district on Menorca offers eggs with oven baked potatoes and langostines in a piri-piri sauce.
At Castelados in Retiro they have a tortilla de bacalao y ajetes (an omelet with cod and young garlic)
We often order at night any type of “revuelto” (an egg scramble with …) whether it be with asparagus, with mushrooms or with whatever.
And there’s the tortilla de Sacaramonte from Granada with calf’s or lamb’s brains.
Spaniards love eggs at any time!
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News about Juanjo López Bedmar, the former chef and current owner of the twenty-five year old La Tasquita de Enfrente in Madrid–
Lately he’s been busy launching two new dining projects on the island of Menorca, personally designing the kitchens and the menus of 2 luxury agro tourism properties, Amagatay and Morvedra (both of Numa Management), traveling there twice a month to supervise the execution of his dishes.
The more rustic style Amagaty sits on the south side of the island, near Mahón, while Morvedra on the western side, near Ciudadela, is more exclusive and adults-only.
So that’s what he’s up to, when not tending to his diners at La Tasquita or consulting about the dining at César Lanzarote.
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Thank you, Maribel! We just arrived on Lanzarote and the culture shock is enormous; I believe we are no longer in Spain but I am not sure exactly where we are!!
Since our hotel is in Puerto del Carmen, I knew to expect some of this… FIRST HINT: Runway for takeoff was filled with Ryanair and Easy Jet with one sole Air Lingus jet.
But not fair to comment yet; we arrived only last night and have yet to explore. I will do my best!
This hotel…well, we will see. The gardens and planting are sublime! The interior decoration—not sure if we are in Madras, Yangon or Leeds. But the cactus on this island is not to be believed.
We have a table booked this weekend at CESAR LANZAROTE. I had hoped that Sr. Bedmar would be on the premises but with these other projects, I will not count on it.
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Take copious notes for me, erica! I was afraid that there would be culture shock…we may need to rethink our Nov. trip, but I’m hopeful that you will search out the best of the island’s dining for us.
And that cheese…
Your comment about the hotel’s interior décor made me laugh!
Have fun and eat well!
Maribel, Will do!
Once the room has been cleaned, I will take some photos of interior decor. (I’ve stashed a few of the “objets,” but surely they will be returned to their designated spots during the daily cleaning.)
I appears that most of the restuaraunts on my list (the one you’ve seen) are not known to the staff that I spoke with…we shall see!!! We have a lot of exploring to do…!! And notes to take!!
Good luck! It’s too bad that your restaurants aren’t known to the staff, as it was/is a well curated list 
If you do get up to the Palacio Ico, let me know, as that’s where we’re headed (maybe…)
Or maybe we should wait until there’s a gastro conference in Menorca to try out one of those two lovely agro turismos or the Hotel Torrelbanc that is managed by Marugal and is an SLH.
We booked PALACIO ICO for 18:30 on Saturday. Interesting that they serve dinner at that time, but wonderful for us, since it will be light out (its daylight here until about 9pm now) so the driving should be easy… Today we had quite an escapade returning from El Risco. No GPS, no wireless in car, just a very basic paper map with no actual roads shown. Some grumpy passengers do not think that getting semi-lost on a small island is fun!!! We got to see a good glimpse of the other worldly landscape.
I must say that the drivers here are VERY different than on the mainland…lots of horns honking at me, unsuitable gestures, etc!!! There were times that I think I had a dozen cars trailing close behind me, but I always try to pull over and let them pass. and who knew that no one stops here at red lights??
You have to laugh…there is no way anyone can get truly lost on such a small island, although we put in a fair try, but it was quite the adventure! I am not sure I would be up to driving around here in the dark…apparently there are no cows on the road but many hedgehogs!!! And rabbits. But no lights.
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Wow, what an adventure driving on the island. I’ll warn my driver about these pitfalls.
Hope you enjoy your early dinner at Palacio Ico.
Thanks, Maribel. I hope I get to see a few hedgehogs…aren’t they very cute??? Apparently they were dumped here, along with rabbits…will try to learn more. This island is…I don’e even know how to describe, but I do think that knowing a local person would tilt the visit to much more interesting territory.
Did I mention that I spent about an hour at la Tienda de Lourdes yesterday–the shop in Soo that José Andrés visited in his tv show. Honestly, you cannot imagine how far one has to trek to find local food specialties… I’m now on my beautiful terrace typing this while over the airwaves waft cover versions of Barry White singles.
Did I mention that also across the street is a bar where visitors flock to eat sushi while immersed in hot tubs??? And if the fish falls into the hot tub??? I guess it no longer qualifies as sushi!!
Your descriptions are so funny! Immersing in hot tubs while eating sushi?
I’ll have to re watch the José Andrés Lanzarote episode to note exactly where he went on the island.
Remember the cheese at Finca de Uga.
https://fincadeuga.com/los-quesos/
Maribel, we drove along the road listed on Google maps and could not find but truth be told, I did not look as hard as I could have. I will give it another try, but I also learned that their cheese is sold at the HIPER DINO (!!) supermarket across the street from our hotel in PDC…will investigate… Also LA TIENDA DE LOURDES (shown on José Andrés episode about Lanzarote) stocks some very good local cheeses and the ladies there are wonderful about explaining the various local products. I hope to pass by to buy potatoes there just before we fly back to US. I will begin a thread about Lanzarote here soon…
Today I went to the new Tabanco, Jerez style recently opened by the excellent Triciclo group in Letras and had delicious, authentic chicharrones de Cádiz, almost as yummy as those of the venerable Casa Manteca in the Barrio de las Viñas. But I digress, what surprised me is that they included Savel queso azul de Galicia on their cheese tray.
More info to follow about the new openings of the Grupo Triciclo.
Maribel I fell down on the job when I did not get the name of the Galician blue cheese that I bought in Santiago…the vendor cut a large piece off and it has no label…will take a photo and post it on the Galicia thread here.
