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What you are going to discover in the following pages are minute treasures shared by travellers who form the Trourist.com community. Tucked away, hidden places, the kind you’d show a good friend visiting your city for the first time. Genuine experiences, inimitable in any other part of the world. Specially lived moments tatooed forever on your heart. Without a doubt, the aim of this guide is to live Madrid, not as a tourist, but as a trourist. Unquestionably, if you are planning to travel to Madrid this summer and are determined to avoid visiting typical tourist traps, this is your guide. Print it and take it with you, your holidays are way too important for you not to enjoy them to the max or allow chance and happenstance to deprive you of seeing some place special. Surely you know others who will fall in love with this guide, so don’t hesitate to share it with them. Have a good trip and ... keep travelling real.
Experiences in Madrid Eating out Anonimatto -by
Álvarez Gato, 4
Ana
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Mid italian mid argentinian restaurant where a dj plays at night. It’s well known for their argentinian food and their tasty crepes.
Happy Day Bakery - cute cupcakes
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Calle del Espíritu Santo, 11
Kate Turner
A slice of Americana in Madrid, the perfect follow-up to Home Burger bar opposite. Tiny retro café selling different flavours of cupcakes (tro Red Velvet) and other American-style cakes. Milkshakes and coffee also available, and you can buy cake mix to recreate their recipes at home. Take away or grab the one table if you’re lucky.
Public Restaurant
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Calle del Desengaño, 11
Alex del Toro
It is a place with a carefully chosen decoration and affordable prices. Reservations are not allowed and it is usually crowded, so it is advisable to arrive early and be ready to wait. The best of this restaurant are its prices. The menu from Monday to Friday is 10 euros. It consists of a starter, a main dish and a dessert. You have to go!
La Sultana -by
Jorje Perez
Calle de Meléndez Valdés, 51
This is a good place if you want to spend the night with friends enjoying and chatting with good music and a charming environment (young atmosphere). It has a pizzeria integrated inside, a perfect opportunity to taste their delightful ‘nachos’ & ‘pizzas’. The place is also well-known for its rum list; they have more than 20 types of different rum cocktails.
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Experiences in Sanin Sebastián Experiences Madrid Drinking with buddies Tupperware -by
Corredera Alta de San Pablo, 26
Maeba G Fiel
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Malasaña is a district to go out at night. there are some bars where you can enjoy good english music (indie/pop) and having a good time looking around the decoration, like the Tupperware bar. there are many people during weekend, it´s better go early if you don´t want to wait to go into these bars. Enjoy it! ;)
Casa Pueblo -by
Calle León, 3
Monika Bereciartu
Four of Madrid’s top bartenders own this unique bar located in Las Letras neighborhood. The care they put into their job, the attention to detail, the excellent music (everything from Jazz, Funk and Soul to “soft” electronic music) and the good vibes of the bar’s regulars will make you feel at home and you will be treated like never before.
Lolina Vintage -by
Espíritu Santo, 9
Maite Roso
Nice and quiet 2 floor cafe decorated with 50s and 60s furniture and wallpapers. Perfect for a Sunday morning breakfast (try the homemade cakes) but also for having cocktails with friends at night while listening to 60’s Spanish pop rock on the background. You can also rent the downstairs room for your own “guateque” or private party.
Lola Loba -by
Calle de la Palma, 38
Maite Roso
Usually frequented by university students, this cafe is the perfect place to have something to drink while listening to great music. Decorated with old furniture and faint lights it’s a really cozy place to drink some beers with friends. Nice atmosphere during the week and also perfect for those Saturdays when you don’t feel like partying crazily.
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Experiences in Madrid Live Music El Junco -by
Plaza de Santa Barbara, 10
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Monica Bereciartu
El Junco is the best place in town to listen to good music and dance all night long. You’ll find jazz, blues and funk bands playing live almost every day of the week. When the concerts are finished, djs mix jazzy, funky and brazillian tunes which are the perfect ingredients to create a good atmosphere. That’s junco’s style!!!
La Coquette -by
Calle de las Hileras, 14
Imanol Abad
A very charming bar where there are live concerts almost everyday (most of them, Blues). This place is totally underground. A door, a stairs that goes down and a sort of grotto where there are a bar and three connecting caves. In the first cave there’s the bar, in the second cave there are tables and the stage and from the third cave you can view the stage.
Jazz Bar -by
Calle de Moratín, 35
Jorge Perez
I love the decor of this place! The walls are covered with posters of jazz concerts (not only from the past but also from upcoming events), something to be welcomed by the most nostalgic and fans. It is a very quiet bar to have a drink and chat or read an interesting book … but no doubt, the best are the live performances.
Cafe La Palma -by orge
Perez
Calle de la Palma, 62
Pub on the lively street of La Palma where you can hang out with your friends enjoying live performances – there are concerts of different styles and groups-, or simply having a drink after dinner in the area. A good option for those we love live music.
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Experiences in Madrid Clubbing Ocho y Medio -by
Calle de Mesonero Romanos, 13
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Jorge Perez
This nightclub, which is very close to Gran Via, is a very recommendable place for people who love independent music, pop or rock. It opens from 12 pm to 6 am, with different DJs every week and live performances once a month. The club where I take my friends when they visit Madrid.
El perro de la parte de atras del coche -by
Calle de La Puebla 15
Irakusne Incierte
I’ve partied there a loooot of times. This club has never dissapointed me. Good and eclectic music in Malasaña quarter (mixes of dance, electronica, pop…). Although it closes soon (3:30 am) it’s a good place to start dancing.
Freeway Club -by
San Vicente Ferrer, 7
Marta Santos
It is one of the few bars in Malasaña where you can have a drink for six euros. I think it is a good place for the first part of the night (they usually close around three). On the ground floor you can dance and above is more suitable to listen to the good music they play. The atmosphere is kind of indie.
Sala El Sol -by Mikel
Cortés
Calle de los Jardines, 3
By far, one of my favorite clubs in Madrid. During the 80s when “la movida madrileña” was really “in” this club was a referent. I’ve been to many shows and great bands usually go there. At weekends Djs mix jazzy and funky tunes till late in the morning. The cover to get in costs about 9€
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Experiences in Madrid Find out where to spend your € Fuencarral Market -by
Fuencarral, 45
Mercedes González
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A unique mall for moderns, heavys, indies, people who like militar stuff, gotics.. With a hairdresser, tatoo parlour, coffe shop in a mini 3 floor mall. The shops don’t have doors so they all share the same music (such as Kaiser Chiefs and Franz Ferdinand) and create an enviroment that you can’t find in many malls in Spain.
Lotta Vintage
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Maite Roso
Hernán Cortés, 9
Located in the center of the neighborhood of Malasaña, Lotta. Vintage is one of the best known second hand shop in Madrid. Vintage clothes and accessories starting from the 50s. They also have great services such as styling lessons and renting clothes. Don’t forget to check out the jewellery section.
Corachan y Delgado -by
Calle del Barco, 42
Maite Roso
This is not just a second hand clothing shop. Located in an old winery, Corachan y Delgado’s shop offers real vintage clothing starting from the 20s decade.Carefully selected high quality products, designer pieces at reasonable prices. A must if you really like second hand clothing. Great decoration.
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Tips by a local trourist
Marta Vázquez trourist
Madrid is a city with so much to offer that you don’t want to miss even a single corner. If you visit during the summer, you have tons of things to do, without the hassle normally encountered the rest of the year. For starters, there’s a rendezvous through one of the city’s best routes for tapas. A perfect way to beat the heat is to head down to La Latina where you’ll find Madrid’s true pulse in any of its fascinating niches. Once there, look for a street called La Cava Baja and drop in to any one of the local pubs and have a nice wine, sangria or ice cold beer. My personal nod goes to La Txacolina, but any will do. Another route that I highly recommend, to get the feeling of really breathing and living Madrid, is the Atocha-Retiro-Puerta de Alcala-Cibeles stretch, concluding on Gran Via (Broad-way, in Spanish), the unofficial heart of Madrid, one whose beat never stops and is never empty. One of my favorites routes, for sure. And if you still have some tiger in your tank, cross over to Chueca where you’ll find some of the coolest, modern bars in the whole city. Just getting together in Chueca, you’ll soon see is worth the effort of getting there. This neighborhood is a stone’s throw from Malasaña, one of the more emblematic parts of the city, ever since the days of the “Movida Madrileña· back in the eighties when twentyyear-old Pedro Almodovar and his gang used to cruise this scene till the wee hours of the night. Hitting some of the bars here will show you why. Last but not least on the list, is El Rastro, the Sunday flea market. Long, winding, diverse, and daunting, it can be a challenge especially during the summer months with the sun beating down on you. If that’s the case, take a reprieve and shoot over to Huertas for a few cold brews. And speaking of Huertas, there’s a restaurant here where you’ll find the best Galician-style octopus in all the city. The restaurant’s called Maceiras, and if you can hold off till midnight, you’ll be witness to a queimada prepared live and up close, with Galician magical incantations included. When it comes to Madrid, I could go on for hours … but, better still, why don’t you come and see for yourself, living memorable moments personally and getting to know the local folk on your own. 8
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