I was reading Frommers and Rough Guide books and most of the restaurants in Madrid and Barcelona are closed during the month of August. MM or mm members can you let me know of any good tapa restaurants there. Gracias.

Wow. There are SO MANY great tapas bars in both Madrid & BCN that it would be impossible to list them all here. I think if you do a SEARCH (see link upper right) and type BARCELONA TAPAS or MADRID TAPAS you'll probably get a dozen previously posted threads on each. I recall an excellent, long, tasty thread regarding the LAS BRAVAS chain of tapas bars in Madrid. Mmmmm.. MY GOD... DID'JA HAVE TO BRING THIS UP!!!??? ARGH!! :p

As for some being closed in August, some will be closed, yes, I'm sure, but I seriously doubt you'll starve. MANY good ones, including my favorite EL BRILLANTE (in Madrid), will most likely be open.

After you come back, won't you let us know what you found? And/or maybe some of our madrileño members (I don't think we have any members now in/from Barcelona -- other than Asterault and HE'S NOW IN MADRID!) can enlighten us. Thanks!

Saludos, MadridMan