La Ardosa

Madrid, Spain

One of Madrid's oldest tapas bars, pouring wine and serving cured meats since 1892. The zinc-topped bar is always crowded, the walls covered in old bullfighting posters. Their chorizo comes sliced from a whole cured piece kept behind the bar, served alongside croquetas and their famous tortilla. Cash only.

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Sausages served here

Chorizo

Extremadura, Spain

Verified

Spain's most iconic cured sausage, made from coarsely chopped pork seasoned with pimentón (smoked paprika) and garlic, then stuffed into natural casings and dry-cured for weeks. The red comes from pimentón de la Vera, a smoked paprika produced in Extremadura. Chorizo exists in hundreds of regional variants across Spain, from soft and spreadable to hard and sliceable.

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