Before the Bells and the gastronomic recognitions, there were the streets where they played, the family meals and their parents’ house. Cristina Pedroche and Dabiz Muñozwhich this Wednesday, October 14, visit El Hormiguero at 9:45 p.m.share Madrid origins, although their childhood memories take them to two different areas of the capital.
She grew up in Entrevías, in Vallecas. He did it in The Elipain the Ciudad Lineal district. They are the places that appear when reviewing their early years and to which both have returned in interviews, photographs and recommendations of places to eat.
Cristina Pedroche and her childhood in Entrevías
Pedroche’s relationship with Vallecas predates his television career and is still present in his public life. His love for Rayo Vallecano and the images he shares of the family home are some of the ways he maintains that bond.
In an interview in El Faro, from Cadena SERremembered a childhood of playing in the street with his cousins. He also talked about his grandmother’s ajoblanco and the smell of flowers that accompanied his father when he returned from working in a flower shop. They are domestic memories that place their story long before their first appearances on television.
His parents’ house preserves part of that period. In 2024, the presenter showed on her networks the room she had occupied as a teenager, with the objects and memories that were still there after becoming independent. The images showed a space familiar to her that her followers barely knew.
A walk through Vallecas beyond television
To locate these origins it is convenient to distinguish the names. Entrevías is one of the neighborhoods in the Puente de Vallecas districtwhile Vallecas is usually used to refer to a broader territory, which also includes Villa de Vallecas.
Whoever wants to know this area of Madrid can extend the tour to the Cerro del Tío Pío parklocated in Puente de Vallecas. Its hills, which explain the popular name “park of the seven tits”, offer a panoramic view of the city and make it one of the best-known viewpoints in the capital.
It is not in Entrevías, but it allows you to complete a visit to the Vallecano environment. From its high areas you can see a very different Madrid from the one you travel between Puerta del Sol and Gran Vía.
La Elipa, the neighborhood where Dabiz Muñoz grew up
The childhood of Dabiz Muñoz It took place in La Elipa. Before his training as a chef and the opening of DiverXO, his relationship with food involved the family table and the establishments around him.
One of those places is La Paloma IIon Marqués de Corbera Avenue. The chef has recommended his rice with lobster on Cadena SER. The relationship went back long before that public recommendation, since he went to the establishment with his parents when he was little.
This memory allows us to give a specific place to the chef’s first flavors. A neighborhood restaurant that I went to as a family ended up appearing among the recommendations of a chef known for proposals very different from that everyday cuisine.
The bars of La Elipa that remain in his memory
Muñoz’s recommendations have also led his followers to The Marketanother establishment in La Elipa. In a speech reported by Cadena SER in January 2026, his rice with lobster also stood out.
La Paloma II and La Lonja thus offer two references to approach the neighborhood through food. In the case of the first, there is also a relationship that goes back to the chef’s visits with his family.
Tonight, Pedroche and Muñoz will speak with Pablo Motos about his professional and personal current affairs. Before that conversation, his memories outline a tour of Madrid that passes through her teenage room in Vallecas and the tables at La Elipa where he sat as a child.