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Once you’ve stopped snickering at the name, you’ll fi nd some of the best cocktails in the city served in relaxed, stylish surroundings. Bar Cock has an old café atmosphere, and DJs take to the decks from 12.30am. Although there are more happening bars, this one always attracts a pleasant mix of Madrid’s hip crowd, and a fair few celebrities, out to have a quietly good time.
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An arty classic on Calle Alcala that is worth the small entrance fee you have to pay to venture inside. Self-conscious tourists check out the Castillian intellectuals; it’s all very high-brow and grand. The 1920s decor is stunning—so order a brandy and soak up the atmosphere.
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One of Madrid’s most evocative bars; gloriously shabby with old, peeling, sherry posters, and barrels behind the bar and walls burnished gold by decades of tobacco smoke. It serves only sherry, from dry fi no to robust palo cortado, and a small selection of tapas.
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The doyen of Madrid cocktail bars, with the city’s best ’30s art deco interior. The seats are original, so you could be sitting right where Hemingway, Grace Kelly, Ava Gardner and just about every Spanish writer, actor or artist of the last 60 years has sat too. Enjoy a great cocktail with lounge music from the resident DJ.
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