All our Food & tapas guides for Madrid, in one place.
How to eat well in Madrid: the tapas to order, the dishes the city invented, when locals actually eat, the best neighborhoods for a crawl, and how to skip the tourist traps.
Flamenco is Andalusian, and Madrid is where it professionalised. How to tell a serious tablao from a dinner show, and what you are actually watching.
A night here has stages: vermouth, tapas, a proper drink, a rooftop, a club at two and churros at six. Where each stage happens and how to pace it.
Madrid's own dish is a chickpea stew served in three separate courses from the same pot, eaten at lunchtime in winter, and it takes an afternoon.
Fried dough dipped in chocolate thick enough to stand a spoon in, eaten at six in the morning or six in the evening, in rooms that have been serving it for a century.
A medieval street grid south of the palace, a hundred bars in twenty minutes' walk, and a Sunday ritual that starts at the flea market and finishes after dark.