This award-winning project of Diego Cabrera's is indeed a cocktail bar, but it's one where, in addition to quenching your thirst in the most agreeable of ways, you can also please your stomach with a selection of hummus, mini-burgers, tapas and pickled treats that quickly become addictive. A comic-book theme dominates the casual ambience and 1960s-style cocktail-bar decor. Cabrera aims to democratize and dignify everything related to mixology while also offering dozens of classic cocktails, others of his own creation, and new combinations that he's concocted with Pepe Orts, the country's greatest botanist.
So, you’re in Madrid, and you’d be doing it wrong if you didn’t spend your days tucking into tapas and sipping wine in the sun all day. After all, what else are you to do? Luckily, Madrid has bars in abundance, serving up draught beer, natural wines, bar snacks and a hell of a lot of Vermouth.
But whether you're after a traditional 'taberna', a century-old bodega, modern cocktails, or a coffee for breakfast or to relax in the afternoon, we've got something for everyone. And each and every one has been tested (some more than once) by our expert critics. Here are the best bars in Madrid right now.
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This guide was last updated by Gorka Elorrieta, a writer at Time Out Madrid. At Time Out, all of our travel guides are written by local writers who know their cities inside out. For more about how we curate, see our editorial guidelines.