Food trucks, craft beer, and sunshine
MadrEAT is a monthly food festival held in the AZCA park near Madrid's Nuevos Ministerios financial area. Some of Madrid's rising foodie upstarts as well as some long-established classics pack their ingredients and flat-tops into restored vintage food trucks and head down to ASCA to serve tasty morsels from 11-6 on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays (check out their website for this month's dates).
At MadrEAT, you can find everything from gourmet burgers to calamari sandwiches to ceviche or cupcakes. Here's what I'd suggest: start by grabbing a "mini" of locally-brewed La Virgen beer and take a stroll around the trucks to see what whets your appetite. There are dozens of vendors set up so don't scarf down the first thing to see. I'd suggest trying Kitchen 154, a friendly crew obsessed with spicy who serve up an eclectic mix of beef tacos, Middle Eastern garbanzo stew and, my personal favorite, juicy dumplings which explode in your mouth.
