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Casa Dani
4.5(12,151 reviews)
Popular, long-running counter in a covered market serving tortillas de patatas & other tapas.
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Chocolatería San Ginés
4.3(72,720 reviews)Every day 00:00 – 00:00
In the passage beside the church of San Ginés since 1894. Marble tables, green woodwork, and the thick hot chocolate the churros go into.
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Toma Café 1
4.4(3,522 reviews)Every day 08:00 – 18:00
A small coffee bar on calle de la Palma in Malasaña. One of the first counters in Madrid to take specialty coffee seriously.
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Restaurante La Bien Aparecida
4.5(3,463 reviews)
Renowned, airy dining room specializing in Cantabrian seafood, with sharing plates in the bar below.
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Panod
4.2(2,050 reviews)Every day 09:00 – 15:00
A small bakery on calle de Prim with a counter given over to bread. Sourdough loaves and pastries come out in batches through the day.
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Rosi La Loca
4.6(9,168 reviews)InternationalSpanish
Near Sol, a dining room decorated to every corner. Vermouth and sharing plates, on a menu as crowded as the walls.
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Coctelería Salmon Guru
4.6(4,923 reviews)
Adventurous international dishes are served alongside funky cocktails at this dark, retro-style bar.
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Café de Oriente
4.2(5,975 reviews)
Elegant glass-fronted cafe terrace opposite Madrid's Royal Palace, serving coffee, tapas & desserts.
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PANEM
4.6(1,782 reviews)
Easygoing bakery whipping up artisanal croissants, cookies, breads & other baked goods.
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Taberna El Sur
4.7(10,523 reviews)BarMediterraneanEvery day 12:00 – 01:30
A tavern in Lavapiés with old Spanish film posters covering the walls. Tapas and raciones, at the bar or at a table.
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Casa Toni
4.5(4,860 reviews)
Laid-back, counter-serve spot for seafood & offal tapas, with tiles & photo-covered walls.
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Casa Revuelta
4.4(6,708 reviews)
A few steps from the Plaza Mayor, the same tavern since 1966. Its reputation rests on one thing, a thick slice of battered salt cod.
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Casa Amadeo de los Caracoles
4.5(5,788 reviews)Every day 10:00 – 00:00
An array of classic tapas paired with sangria or vermouth in a cozy restaurant with a large terrace.
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DiverXO
4.4(3,313 reviews)
High-end, avant-garde tasting menus served on outré dishware in a sleek, modern dining room.
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Restaurante Coque
4.7(1,696 reviews)
Family-run restaurant serving sophisticated, contemporary cuisine, with an extensive wine cellar.
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Horcher
4.6(716 reviews)
Dating from 1943, this elegant restaurant serves traditional Central European dishes like wild game.
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Saddle Madrid
4.7(1,000 reviews)
Elevated dishes using seasonal ingredients served in fine-dining eatery that has a cocktail bar.
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Deessa
4.6(349 reviews)
Quique Dacosta's two-star room inside the Mandarin Oriental Ritz, set in the Alfonso XIII salon. Two menus are offered, one historical and one contemporary.
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Bar Amor
4.6(929 reviews)
Typical dishes with innovative touches, plus wine & craft beer, amid exposed bricks & wooden beams.
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Bodega de la Ardosa
4.2(7,645 reviews)
Casual, time-tested tapas bar featuring a selection of sharing plates, drinks & beer on tap.
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Alhambra
4.3(6,666 reviews)
Restaurant home to bold artwork, serving Andalusian staples like grilled meat & open sandwiches.
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Taberna El Sur
4.5(8,849 reviews)Every day 12:00 – 00:00
Casual, modern tavern decorated with Spanish movie posters, serving tapas dishes & raciones.
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Los Chuchis
4.5(1,715 reviews)
Roast pork & shepherd's pie served in a bright space with checkerboard floors & wooden furniture.
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Smoked Room Madrid. Fire Omakase by Dani García
4.7(353 reviews)
A counter with a handful of seats inside a hotel on the Castellana. In Dani García's menu every plate passes through fire or smoke.
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Museo Nacional del Prado
4.7(156,406 reviews)
Spanish painting at its centre, in Villanueva's building of 1819. Velázquez's Las Meninas, Goya's black paintings, and Bosch's triptych.
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Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
4.5(71,519 reviews)
Spain's twentieth-century art inside an eighteenth-century hospital. Picasso's Guernica hangs here, and Dalí and Miró share the same floors.
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Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum
4.7(141,900 reviews)
In the Palacio de Villahermosa on the Paseo del Prado. A baron's private collection, bought by Spain in 1993 and hung in order across eight centuries.
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Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
4.6(4,441 reviews)
Cultural center & exhibits in a Neoclassical palace, with 16th-century paintings & sculptures.
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National Museum of Archaeology
4.7(28,792 reviews)
A neoclassical building on Serrano. The Iberian Lady of Elche is here, and a full replica of the Altamira cave sits in the garden.
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El Retiro Park
4.8(214,972 reviews)Every day 06:00 – 00:00
Once the palace's private garden, opened to Madrid in the nineteenth century. Rowing boats on the lake, a rose garden, and a palace of glass.
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Real Jardín Botánico
4.4(37,057 reviews)
Three eighteenth-century terraces right beside the Prado. The beds were laid out under Carlos III, and the glasshouses hold the tropical plants.
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Parque de la Quinta de los Molinos
4.5(16,117 reviews)
A park left over from an old country estate. In spring the almond trees flower all at once and Madrid walks out here to see it.
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Temple of Debod
4.4(69,522 reviews)
Built near Aswan in the second century BC for Amun and Isis. Egypt gave it to Spain in 1968 and it rose again, stone by stone, in the Parque del Oeste in 1972.
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Parque de Madrid Río
4.7(3,280 reviews)Every day 00:00 – 00:00
When the ring road went underground, both banks of the Manzanares became parkland. Miles of path, new bridges, and steps down to the water.
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1862 Dry Bar
4.6(2,522 reviews)
Signature & classic cocktails served in an elegant street-level bar or in a cozy vaulted cellar.
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Angelita Madrid
4.6(860 reviews)InternationalMediterranean
The Villalón brothers keep a street-level wine bar above a basement cocktail room here, with over a thousand wines and spirits and produce from the family farm.
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La Venencia
4.4(3,243 reviews)Every day 12:30 – 15:30, 19:30 – 00:00
Wood casks & dusty bottles in a tavern from the 1930s, serving 5 types of sherry with rustic tapas.
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Bar Cock
4.1(905 reviews)
Old-world destination for classic cocktails, with leather banquettes & dark-wood paneling.
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Del Diego Cocktail Bar
4.5(1,789 reviews)
Carefully mixed cocktails, gin & small plates at a sleek bar with stone columns & a high ceiling.
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Teatro Kapital
3.7(9,982 reviews)
Opulent, 7-story nightclub with multiple bars & a rooftop, for live music, karaoke & dance parties.
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Sala El Sol
4.3(2,647 reviews)
A stage on calle de los Jardines, open since 1979. Madrid's 1980s music wave passed through here, and the programme is still live.
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Café La Palma
4.2(1,535 reviews)
Energetic venue offering a relaxed cafe area & performance space for live music & DJ dance parties.
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Café Central Ateneo
4.1(6,587 reviews)Every day 17:30 – 00:30
Tapas, cocktails & comfort food, plus live music, at a laid-back bar with a sidewalk terrace.
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FABRIK
4.4(12,319 reviews)
In an industrial estate at Humanes, south of the city, since 2003. The main room and the ones around it are given to techno and house, plus a large terrace.
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