Archive for Category: "Bar reviews"

Hasta las Vistas: Eight Rooftop Hotspots in Madrid

Hasta las Vistas: Eight Rooftop Hotspots in Madrid

When talking about Madrid you will inevitably run into the “rooftop terrace” conversation. Everyone wants to know where the best views can be found. And having mooched, lounged and lorded my way around some of the topspots of Madrid I’ve noticed that one doesn’t rate higher than another, but that each has their own little [...]

Olé Lola: Cocktails and Culinary Delights

Olé Lola: Cocktails and Culinary Delights

A fairly recent addition to the funky chic cocktail gang in Madrid, Olé Lola, is definitely giving its existing competition a run for their money. From the minute you walk in the door you can’t help but feel just a little more glamorous than you did before. The black furniture, dim lighting and colourful bar [...]

Alternative Ambience at Bar Marimba

Alternative Ambience at Bar Marimba

Founded by three “non-Madrileños”, you can tell Bar Marimba is new the second you walk through the door.  Not because it’s a bit quiet or because everything still seems clean and the toilets lock (although all of those are also true), but because you feel like a valuable customer from the moment you sit down.  Lydia, [...]

Café Diurno: Coffee, Cake and Cultural Movies

Café Diurno: Coffee, Cake and Cultural Movies

I was in search of a place to chill out, read the paper and do a bit of studying so I went wandering through the streets of Chueca. In Madrid the cafés are 10 a penny and every street will offer you a café con leche somewhere along the way, but I wanted something a [...]

Jose Alfredo: Where the Cool Kids Go for Cocktails in Madrid

Jose Alfredo: Where the Cool Kids Go for Cocktails in Madrid

Whether you’re a Gin Fizz junky or a Cosmo crazed fan, you  know that it’s not easy to find a place that really knows how to make cocktails the way they should be made. Let me introduce you to Jose Alfredo, well, not the man, but the cocktail bar of the moment here in Madrid. [...]