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Downtown Madrid : Bars & Nightclubs

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  • This well-known vegetarian restaurant features a nettle purée among other imaginative dishes. Also organic wines and herbal teas. No smoking.

  • The name “coffee and tea” says it all. Branch of a cafeteria chain in the heart of cinema land (see Cinemas and Entertainment).

  • A Madrid institution, it was here that Pablo Iglesias founded the Spanish Socialist party in 1879. Of the tapas on offer try the house speciality, soldaditos de Pavía (fried cod).

  • This tastefully decorated late-night bar is a good place to round off the evening.

  • This Andalusian taberna serves a house speciality of rabo de toro (bull’s tail).

  • This lively Asturian tavern serves regional specialities such as bean soup (fabada ) and sausages in cider (chorizo a la sidra ).

  • This Valencian restaurant specializes in rice dishes, including paella .

  • This restaurant was a favourite of film director Pedro Almodóvar, and appears in his film All about my Mother . The terrace has views of the Calatravas church on Gran Vía, but you pay for the privilege. Mediterranean cooking.

  • It was Ernest Hemingway who put this cocktail bar on the map in the 1930s; other famous visitors include Frank Sinatra and Orson Welles. The Art Deco trappings are best appreciated at night (see Museo Chicote).

  • The usual Japanese combinations of tempura, sushi and sashimi dishes. Minimalist décor.

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