# The best cafés in Madrid

Speciality coffee shops that roast their own beans and historic cafés with character: the ones coffee blogs and city guides recommend most.

- 192 votes · 14 items
- Mar 19, 2025 · madridtapeo
- https://even.best/en/l/370/the-best-cafes-in-madrid

## Top 10

1. **Toma Café** (28 · ▲29 ▼1) — Pioneer of speciality coffee in Madrid since 2011, roasting its own beans, on Calle de la Palma (Malasaña).
2. **Hola Coffee** (21 · ▲23 ▼2) — Benchmark roaster and café with a rotating filter menu, in Lavapiés and Lagasca.
3. **Misión Café** (17 · ▲17 ▼0) — Café on Calle de los Reyes with single-origin coffees and brunch.
4. **Café Comercial** (14 · ▲17 ▼3) — Madrid's oldest café (1887) on Glorieta de Bilbao, reopened after a renovation.
5. **Acid Café** (12 · ▲16 ▼4) — Minimalist café in the Barrio de las Letras with competition-level filter coffee.
6. **Hanso Café** (11 · ▲12 ▼1) — Small Malasaña café known for its cortados and Asian-style pastries.
7. **Café Gijón** (10 · ▲11 ▼1) — Literary café on Paseo de Recoletos since 1888, a gathering place for writers and artists.
8. **Monkee Koffee** (10 · ▲11 ▼1) — Moncloa café with in-house roasting and a student-neighbourhood feel.
9. **Masamune Coffee** (9 · ▲10 ▼1) — Speciality café run by Zhen Xuan He Liu, with beans that rotate by season.
10. **Ruda Café** (8 · ▲8 ▼0) — La Latina speciality café serving coffee from European roasters.
11. **Federal Café** (7 · ▲9 ▼2) — Brunch café on Plaza del Conde de Barajas, popular for working.
12. **Santa Kafeína** (5 · ▲9 ▼4) — Lavapiés roaster and café that also runs barista courses.
13. **Eastern Coffee** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Classic café in front of the Royal Palace, in the Plaza de Oriente, with a terrace and period rooms.
14. **The Coffee Bike** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Cafeteria-cycling workshop in the Plaza de San Ildefonso (Malasaña), one of the pioneers of specialty coffee in Madrid.

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