Miguel López Castanier

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Miguel López Castanier

Miguel López Castanier


Owner of La Taberna de Liria (Madrid)

  • Enrique Mendoza Pinot Noir
  • Nita
  • José Pariente Fermentado en Barrica
  • Elías Mora Crianza
  • Miquel Gelabert Torrent Negre
  • Tobía Graciano
  • Viña Tondonia Reserva Blanco
  • Coto de Hayas Solo 09 Merlot
  • Juan Gil Monastrell Cepas Viejas Barrica
  • Ruinart Brut Rosé
  • Guitian Ferm. Barrica Blanco
  • Otazu Rosado
  • Belondrade & Lurtón Verdejo Barrica
  • Luis Cañas Selección de la Familia Reserva
  • Abadal Picapoll
  • Juan Gil Monastrell Cepas Viejas Barrica
  • Viña Tondonia Rosado
  • Les Brugueres
  • Vallegarcía Syrah Barrica
  • De Venoge Cordon Bleu Brut Sélect
  • Casar de Burbia Roble
  • Clua Mil·lenium Criança
  • Elías Mora Crianza
  • Mas Estela Selva de Mar Blanc

After passing through several schools and working in various restaurants in the area of Madrid, in 1988 started as chef de cuisine at La Taberna de Liria where he continues as owner and chef.

López Castanier has combined his profession with culinary journalism. He has worked in newspapers (Diario 16, El Mundo, El Pais) and magazines (Manifesto or Gourmet). In 2000 she joined Kitchen channel at Digital Plus, with its program La Bodega and Va de trucos. He is also author of the recipes in La cocina de Don Quijote, an essay by Cesareo Fernandez Duro. He also participated in the book La cocina de Plinio.

He has recently published the amazing book 20 Poems of Love & a loud sob, a book in which poetry is linked to gastronomy as every poem contains a recipe. A great little gem!


From the last 14th September, Miguel has started a new experience: the restaurant Castaño y Caramelo. In the central street of Goya in Madrid, he has retrieved a former restaurant were he has already put his fingerprint. It is a mix of a tavern, a bistro and a restaurant, a mix of traditional with small touches of modernity.


Restaurant La taberna de Liria web page

Enrique Mendoza Pinot Noir

I'm love with this variety, which gives such good results. Among the wineries that produce Pinot Noir wines, this one exceeds the rest. It is countless the number of roasted rabbit legs with mustard, the bavette in red wine ...


9.15

Nita

I am afraid that this wine only reminds me of a mushroom pissaladière and some lamb chops wrapped in sheep cheese and pastry, served with aubergines in pizzaiola sauce, your hand holding my hand and your eyes promising ...


10.60

José Pariente Fermentado en Barrica

There are wines that have the power to bring you many good things to memory. And it's in countless occasions that I've tried this José Pariente with "sushi", italian pasta with truffles sauce, king prawns prepared in all ...


14.95

I started my Decántalo collaborations with this wine. A year later, I taste it again in its new vintage to the delight of my senses and in order to celebrate these huge experiences that wines provide. An elegant ...



The sea winds of Pitiusas contribute to develop great wines and great fools. This wine is the ultimate expression of both truths. And is filled with the best of the Mediterranean winter roots. A wine to be enjoyed with any ...



Tobía Graciano

Now that a colder weather arrives, this wine becomes a must to accompany powerful game stews. It is perfect to be served with wild boar, roe deer and red wine venison stews, maybe with beans. Or a good hare fideuá. ...


12.70

Viña Tondonia Reserva Blanco

Occasionally, we have to stay looking grapes and meteor showers. With this wine with mineral reminiscences, with a mouth full of nuances, freezing in a wine cooler. And while dedicating ourselves to eat large slices of ...


19.25

Each year, one of the news I wait for with great curiosity is the Solo of this magnificent winery. This is usually when the late swallows leave to navigate the seas and such trifles. It's usually when the fried eggs sizzle ...



This delicious wine from old vines is what connaisseurs consider a piece of bargain. Suitable for pasta and half matured cheese, and even some stew for me "olla podrida". Please don't tell anyone. We don't want to run out ...



Ruinart Brut Rosé

I lift my little finger when talking about this great rosé pleasure. With an onion and brie pizza. Turbot in rebellion of sauces. Pasta filled with wonderful fish or vegetables. Sardines compote, sweet molten cheese ...


53.10

Today I feel strangely happy. I found this bottle in a corner of the refrigerator, next to a good white sirloin steak. Some garlic, tomatoes and fennel branches. All in the oven. Not the bottle. I'll open it in a couple of ...



The rice with seafood and hunting, the grilled vegetables with vinaigrettes and soybeans, the chocolate pasta with sepionets, meat with hot or cold vinaigrettes, fried puntillitas and grilled cuttlefish I have left to eat ...



Listening to Fernande de Brassens , old hobbies, I always remember this wine. It is delicious, and has fixed manny dinners with my wife. Mainly because its the perfect wine to hook up. And if it doesn't work, at least we ...



Maybe today I feel a little fussy, but this great wine, from this great bodega, I have always found the best of this country. It not only its aromas, but the pairings so interesting that you have. Cocidito From the way you ...



What a surprise the other day I got to be lucky enough to taste this Picapoll. Some sepionets with curled chocolate paste eyes. And I eat one of those semi-liquid cheese cakes. And the dreams marine began calling me at the ...



This delicious wine from old vines is what we consider a piece of bargain connoisseurs. Suitable for curing cheese pasta and half, and even some pot for me rotten. Please do not discuss it with anyone. If not we will run it.



This is what every great drinker must know. Let's get out the masks. There you can drink rosé. And there are delicious, plenty. But this is special. Taste it. And see that the rosé does not have to be fruity. ...



Extensive wine and fruit mineral structures. Delicious to start game pates de campagne, or paste Hare. Or those creamy goat cheese that some worship. Or with those creams and chocolates sweetened variety ...



This clearly demonstrates that the Wines of Castilla can reach high prices, the important thing is not the OJ but the vineyard, the earth and caring. And this wine requires a pularda, a partridge, wild boar or a stuffed ...



A little treat for those who can care for themselves. It is a champagne lunch with seafood, fish, Cod desalting and white meats. A small discovery.



Delicious wine for this time of cold. To the cooked mushrooms hunting and which spread our tablecloth for these cherished anniversaries. Only for friends.



Clua Mil·lenium Criança

I'd rather not talk about this. Drink it and into the nuances of these vines. Only for connoisseurs.


18.35

It was and remains the demonstration that a bull can make high quality wines, wines that reminded Atlantic require the loving care of a great meal to expatiate.



It is the whole expression of the Mediterranean. A white nuanced to take with great gourmets.



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