Known as Jazzanova until recently, Castellana 8 remains a supremely smooth bar-restaurant-club, its black walls softened by clever uplighting, orange velvet...
Paseo de la Castellana 8Famous for being Ernest Hemingway's daily haunt (his table, should you be wondering, is the one in the near right-hand corner). The decor is fin-de-siècle...
Plaza Santa Ana 6Confusingly, this quiet bar-restaurant actually sits on C/Espalter, just around the corner, and overlooking the botanical gardens. Tucked away from the...
C/Ruiz de Alarcón 27Spacious, friendly and soothingly decorated, this is an oasis of calm in the desert storm of Madrid's nightlife. With a café-style air, the easygoing crowd...
C/Minas 1
Totally unreconstructed, La Venencia is gloriously shabby, with old, peeling sherry posters, barrels behind the bar and walls burnished gold by decades of...
C/Echegaray 7The least exciting-looking of all the beer cellars lining this side of the Plaza Santa Ana, Naturbier's big draw is its own-made organic beer - in fact it's...
Plaza Santa Ana 9
A hugely successful new Scandinavian-flavoured restaurant and basement vodka bar, all moulded beech and curiously hip snow scenes, and serving some of the...
C/Prado 15This smart pre-club bar, which doubles as a restaurant, owes its look to many a London venue: glass, steel and leather sofas. Packed to the gills at the...
C/Virgen de los Peligros 4