Known as Jazzanova until recently, Castellana 8 remains a supremely smooth bar-restaurant-club, its black walls softened by clever uplighting, orange velvet cushions and a...
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 German bierkeller,...
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 tourist drag, it's very...
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 partake of whatever...
C/Minas 1Totally unreconstructed, La Venencia is gloriously shabby, with old, peeling sherry posters, barrels behind the bar and walls burnished gold by decades of tobacco smoke. It...
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 the only place in...
Plaza Santa Ana 9A hugely successful new Scandinavian-flavoured restaurant and basement vodka bar, all moulded beech and curiously hip snow scenes, and serving some of the freshest food ideas...
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 weekend, there are...
C/Virgen de los Peligros 4