El Colmado, Tapas, Jamón Ibérico and a Social entrepreneurship in the heart of Berlin

We cannot be more excited to start telling you in this blog the progress of the meals we are donating to children in need, our events and news.
In this first entry we want to quickly explain what El Colmado means, our mission and what we have achieved in this first year after opening in October
2017.

THE MEANING OF OUR TAPAS RESTAURANT  “EL COLMADO”

El Colmado means “the Grocery”, in German ,“Tante Emma Laden” and it’s our first Spanish Tapas Bar, Winery and gourmet store located in Alexanderplatz in Berlin. Clients constantly say of us in Tripadvisor and Google that we are an authentic Tapas Bar…but why? It´s easy: we carefully choose every of our products from different regions of Spain and import them ourselves to Berlin to guarantee the best quality and unique taste in each of our products. The same Jamón, cheese or Fuet that you may eat in Extremadura, La Mancha or Cataluña, you can find with the same quality in the very heart of Berlin: Alexanderplatz.

WE ARE NOT A MERE TAPAS BAR…

But we are not a mere Spanish Tapas Bar…we are a social entrepreneurship. A social business means supporting a social cause and ours has to do with eradicating hunger in the world: for every single Tapa or product that you buy in El Colmado, we donate 5 meals to children suffering from hunger: it´s a Meal for a Meal. That’s our business model: you buy one meal, we donate five; you buy two, we give ten…the more you buy, the more meals we give to children. Why five meals? That’s because we feed one child throughout a school week, Monday to Friday = five meals.

It is not only that we donate a significant part of our revenues, it is related to the fact that El Colmado has a soul, it’s a meaningful project, bigger than ourselves, that deserves giving the best of our energy and time to make the “Meal for a Meal” business viable. Our dream? That others follow our model.

At the date of this blog, we have donated 212.970 meals to children in Africa…WE ARE IN THE CHANGING OF THE WORLD BUSINESS…join our “Meal for a Meal” movement in Rathausstrasse 13.