Maricastaña 20s / 30s / Artsy / Café / Casual / Chill / Conversational / Couples / Date Place / Dinner / Friendly / Hipster / Hipster Style / In crowd / Laid back / Lunch / Moderate / Restaurant / Smart Casual / Tapas Bar / Trendy Casual / Trendy Vibe / Wi-Fi

Maricastaña is an excellent dining choice in Malasaña because it serves full and flavorful plates of food where in Madrid most of the cuisine is smaller tapas style options. The warm and cozy atmosphere and the dim lighting is so welcoming from the outside, so it's hard not to step foot in Maricastaña. The restaurant has a modern vintage feel to it. The walls are a nice warm off white colour and there are candles on each table with a little flowers, the tables and chairs are wooden, and there's one long wooden cafeteria style table (a cool shared seating arrangement allowing you to have conversations with the people sitting next to you if you please). Above the long table there is a really cool lighting arrangement: little tea lights hanging down from a bunch of hay and branches. There is also a downstairs cave with couches, small coffee tables, and dim lighting, making it ideal for a date. There is also free wifi available, along with free magazines, newspapers, and coffee table books to read. The menu has a large variety. They have beers, wines, and cocktails and food wise they have everything from a Spanish tortilla to a hamburger with tomatoes and guacamole. I would highly recommend the menu of the day which is available from 2:30-5pm. You pay around 12 euros and get an appetizer, a main course with a beverage (beer or wine) and a dessert. Every day this menu changes, but for the day of the food options are fairly fixed, but everything tastes so amazing that it doesn't even matter what they serve you! The crowd is very hip and young, mid 20's to mid 30's, laid back, hipster, and a bit of an in-crowd vibe too. You get the sense that this is a place to see and be seen.