The 11 best gourmet food stores to look like a king at Christmas
We could baptize them as temples of the product, but the following references, whether we call them gourmet or delicatessen stores, are some of the essential addresses to enjoy authentic products.
So that we understand each other, the Disney World of good food and the dream of any Carpanta. Cheeses, hams, sausages, wines, preserves, oils, vinegars, prepared dishes, smoked meats, foie...
It doesn't matter what time of year you go to them, and many of them even make home deliveries throughout Spain, so you don't have to complicate yourself to queue or approach them.
Coalla Gourmet (Gijón, Oviedo and Madrid)
In 2021 they have made the leap to Madrid after more than half a century of Asturian adventure, where they are a true reference. It has a very operative and quite intuitive website where most of its catalog is available.
Wines, many, and also a collection of important cheeses, both national and imported, and many more products. Although they have made a homeland with everything from Asturias, their shelves are full of chocolates, Christmas sweets such as panettone, nougat, preserves, honey, biscuits and practically any tasty product that can be bought.
Gijón: Calle San Antonio, 8, and Calle Uría, 4. Oviedo: Calle Asturias, 14. Madrid: Calle de Serrano, 203.
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Few addresses are more essential in Madrid if we talk about delicatessen than Mantequerías Bravo. In 2021 they will be 90 years old and they are still at the foot of the canyon as a family business on Ayala Street, where it is easy to be fascinated by the shelves, counters and wines that are treasured there.
An essential destination in Madrid that also has its catalog available in a fairly intuitive and practical online store, as well as the possibility of creating custom packs and boxes. One of those places to which you return a thousand times and will always continue to surprise you.
Ayala Street, 24.
Ortega House 1939 (Ciudad Real)
An institution that is over 80 years old and that from Alcázar de San Juan has positioned itself as an all-terrain gourmet benchmark, capable of reaching any corner of Spain. In addition to several thousand different wines, they also work with numerous food products, most of them present on their website.
Although all the imaginable delicatessen fits in its doors, perhaps the most important thing is to mention that Casa Ortega has its own butcher shop, so it is usual for fresh products to enter their orders. In the same way, they have the possibility of designing custom Christmas baskets. Physically it can be found in several municipalities of Ciudad Real, where the brand originates from.
Alcazar de San Juan: Food Market; Multicines Building, Avenida de la Constitución S/N; Factory Store, Avenida Serna de Palacio, 1. Tomelloso; Campo Street, 4. Heritage; Calle Iglesia, 18. Campo de Criptana, Calle Virgen de Criptana. Pedro Munoz; Virgin Street, 21.
Doña Tomasa (Santander and Madrid)
The adventure of this young gourmet store begins with a journey through several generations of Cantabrian fishermen and canners, dedicated to handling and preserving some of the best anchovies in the Bay of Biscay, until a few years ago they opened their first physical store, although you can also buy through of your website.
The references are not abundant, but they are of the highest quality, especially their anchovies, a true cult object for lovers of salted meats. In addition to them, they also include sausages, foie gras, canned fish and cheese that they pack under their own brand.
Madrid: Calle del General Pardiñas, 71. Santander: Calle Hernán Cortés, 37.
Bakeries Majorca (Madrid)
Although they have turned ninety years old as one of the greatest exponents of Madrid pastry and confectionery, the universe of Mallorca is not limited to the creation of sweets, breads or cakes, but also to a savory repertoire that is well worth discovering.
They are justly famous for their prepared dishes and also for the Christmas baskets they prepare, some pre-designed and others to suit the consumer, where there is no shortage of oils, wines, foie gras, Iberian ham, cheeses and the most traditional Christmas sweets.
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Amaiketako (San Sebastian and Madrid)
Three friends from Donostia-San Sebastián began this adventure in 2015 with the aim of touring Spain packaging gourmet products of the highest quality, from canned fish to canned vegetables, passing through cheeses, sweets, wines, vermouths, oils, pickles, breads, rice, pasta. ... All of them can be purchased through its website.
In 2018 they expanded the team and also opened a physical store in the Mercado de San Miguel, in the center of Madrid, where they have a space with some of their references and where they also serve pintxos and vermouth on site.
Amaiketako stall, San Miguel Market, Pl. de San Miguel, s/n. Donostia-San Sebastián: Calle Zarautz, 2.
Lukas Gourmet (San Sebastian and Zarautz)
They opened almost 40 years ago in Zarauz and 20 years later they made the leap to Donosti, where they have three physical stores in which wines, cheeses, sausages, preserves, oils, condiments, sweets... In that sense, they also have fresh products , especially a top-level butcher shop.
A display that is also consolidated with prepared dishes that are even marketed by other delicatessen stores -such is the level of Lukas Gourmet-. All of this is also present on its website and in its stores.
Donostia-San Sebastian. Building Hotel María Cristina, Calle de la República Argentina, 4. Julio Caro Baroja Plaza, 1. Avenida de Sancho el Sabio, 22. Zarautz: Calle Hegoalde, 10.
From Post to Post (Málaga)
A peculiarity that surprises from Malaga because it is not a usual gourmet store, but a collection of producers that are also separated from each other. Rather, it is a market place that offers oils, Iberian sausages, Catalan sausages, smoked meats, marinades, seafood, foie gras and fresh duck...
A luxury with highly selected suppliers such as Cal Rovira, Castro y González, Cárnicas Luismi or the Set & Ros oils that are distributed throughout Spain through this website where only the best of each house enters.
Cuenllas (Madrid)
Another illustrious Madrid commerce, extremely famous for its first establishment, where wines and delicatessen coexist, on Ferraz Street, which has been expanding towards the hotel industry, becoming one of the best restaurants to enjoy wine in Spain. In addition to that, they grew towards Media Ración, in the Urso hotel, and now they have also opened another point of sale.
Not far from the hotel, on Calle Orellana, is Cuenllas Salesas, a discreet shop where wine is the protagonist and which serves as a point of sale for highly selected products to the public. However, the Cuenllas website hosts most of its catalogue, although the predominance is oenological, there are also gastronomic details of the highest level.
Ferraz Street 3 and 5; Orellana Street, 4.
Andres Butter Shop (Madrid)
These Madrid groceries boast of being the oldest in Spain (they opened in 1870), so there is no lack of wickerwork for this. Only that they have evolved to become an essential point for everything that means good eating.
The repertoire, also available on its website, is very varied, although to see the place, in the El Rastro area, it is worth visiting and checking first-hand its select charcuterie, its legumes, preserves, sweets, breads... and so with all kinds of products.
Walk of the Elms 3.
Peña Delicatessen (Madrid)
Another classic of the capital, located in the Mercado de Chamartín, which to its selection of national and international delicatessen also adds an important presence of distillates, wines and beers. Along with them and perhaps more noticeable, a very powerful offer of fresh beef, Iberian and suckling pig that makes them a Christmas option always to be taken into account.
A good part of its portfolio is labeled with its own brand, quite abundant in references to preserves, bread, sweets and biscuits, in addition to importing some signature cheeses that are truly difficult to obtain in Spain.
Peña Delicatessen. Bolivia Street, 9.
Pictures | Majorca Bakeries / Casa Ortega
