When you went to school, snack time was the best time of the day. You longed to get home for a ham sandwich or, on lucky days, a Nocilla sandwich. That doesn’t have to change over the years.
You grew up and the snack mutated in an afterwork or directly, you eliminated it from your routine. Now you go through life as if there were not places to snack in Madrid where this meal is a must. But there are, and the best ones are gathered in this list to make it easy for you to recover this sweet tradition.
1. Mafrens Madrid
Mafrens is in full neighborhood of La Latina and unites two of the keys when looking for a place to have a snack in Madrid: specialty coffee and healthy desserts. Their cheesecake is excellent, but their açai bowl combo with drink is a sure hit.
📍 Plaza de Cascorro, 11 (Latina)
2. Cheescake Avenue
Cheesecake Avenue has brought New York’s most traditional cheesecakes to the salamanca neighborhood. Everything here has the touch of the big city, from its decoration (by Alexander Stratthaus) to the music that surrounds the place, the photographs that decorate the left wall, even the names of the cakes themselves -inspired by songs, phrases or references to the city of the Big Apple. Thus, we can try from the classic New York, New York to other ingenious ones such as Cookiefeller, Pistachio of Liberty or The Big Carrot.
💶 Portion of cake and drink: 8€.
📍 Calle de Antonio Acuña, 10 (Salamanca neighborhood).
3. Caro Mela
Caro Mela is an experimental pastry shop, both in its product and in the design of its premises, which is in charge of the artistic group Casa Antillón. You can’t leave without trying their apples – Granny Smith variety: sour – dipped in caramel, which Valerie, the owner, took a year to come up with the recipe and are covered with Oreo, almond, chocolate and peanut toppings….. In this confectionery, with surrealist touches, he also makes cakes and pastries to order.
📍 Calle de Trafalgar, 20 (Chamberí)
4. Watts Canteen
you know when you’re more of a coffee and candy person in the afternoon, but your Amiga is a wine person? Well, Watts Cantina solves the dilemma. This local of La Latina which is open all day, looks like an American diner and in principle serves things that are not out of place: specialty coffee and pancakes. The twist comes with natural wines, music at all hours and the dish of the day, if you are more of a savory person.
📍 Calle de Don Pedro, 4 (La Latina)
5. Religion Coffee
Religon Coffee is a place of relaxing and modern atmosphere of this temple of the specialty coffee. Many go here to taste the blue latte, a blue coffee without roasts that is delicious and looks great on Instagram. Its bar always exhibits sweets to salivate without brakes.
📍 Calle de María de Molina, 2 (barrio de Salamanca)
7. Aroma & Bread
The competition for the best cheesecake in Madrid is in vogue, but at Aroma & Bread they play in another league. Here hides the ultimate cheesecake , which you can also pair with good coffee or a fun pink latte.
📍 Calle Apodaca, 10 (Malasaña)
8. Adored Bar
Adorado Bar is a hospitable Argentinean cafeteria that has conquered two neighborhoods in Madrid with its homemade pastries where alfajores, dulce de leche pancakes and cinnamon rollsshine. Time stands still in here, and thank goodness nobody looks at the clock, because they let us order their breakfasts all day long.
📍 Calle Mesón de Paredes, 22 (Lavapiés) and calle Ferraz, 20 (Argüelles)
9. Mistura
Mistura is an artisan ice cream parlor that mixes textures and flavors in the Indian style, passing of additives and artificial substances in the snack. Predominantly natural and healthy, without sacrificing an experience that your palate will always appreciate.
10. Mür Café
The British character is present in every corner of Mür Café. We are in love with their way of snacking on scones, a not too sweet English muffin and cakes of all kinds, and simply because there are not many places like this where you can let your imagination run wild looking out the window at tea time.
📍 Plaza Cristino Martos, 2 (Conde Duque)
11. Rawcoco Green Bar
Snack time is the healthy moment of the day for those who go to Rawcoco Green Bar. Smoothies, focaccias and healthy pastries with multiple vegan options for all tastes. You leave here with a satisfied stomach and renewed energy. In addition, the urban-tropical ambiance of this place is one of its kind.
fernando el Santo Street, 4 (Chamberí) andGeneral Pardiñas Street, 21 (Salamanca district)
12. Pavlov’s Dog
The secret of its success lies in the friendliness, the smell of freshly brewed coffee, the furniture like those of the village house (the decoration has been nourished from thrift stores and Wallapop). It is that typical essence of small places that attracts its parishioners: the comfort of a stool in front of the bar and a “how are you?” as you stir your coffee.
Costanilla de San Pedro, 5 (La Latina)
13. Neutral House
Casa Neutrale is a Nordic-style coffee shop, serving specialty coffee (from Costa Rica, Ethiopia and Honduras), freshly made sandwiches, homemade pastries and a good assortment of savory options. Among the neighborhood favorites, the sourdough toasts topped with wild tuna, with sobrasada and cheese or with figs, pear, cheese and walnuts or the bocatines (also for vegans).
📍 Regueros St., 13 Madrid (Salesas) and Plaza Cataluña, 2 (Concha Espina)
14. Café del Art
Coffee, bohemia and inspiration merge at the most popular coffee shop in Embajadores: Café del Art. It’s hard to find a free seat, and it’s not only because of the warm decoration and relaxing atmosphere: their Belem cakes are a deservedly famous claim to fame, a Portuguese touch for a snack in Madrid.
📍 Plaza de Cascorro, 9 (La Latina)
15. Hello Coffee
Hola Coffee is the favorite place for coffee addicts in the world Lavapiés. With its modern cups, high quality coffee and the chillroll, it is a workplace the area is a full-fledged, although you won’t always find a surface for your laptop, due to its crowdedness.
📍 Calle del Dr. Fourquet, 33 (Lavapiés)
16. Delish Vegan Doughnuts
Pioneers in establishing vegan gluttony in Madrid, Delish Vegan Doughnuts introduced us to with huge, sweet and inimitable flavors that change every so often. The alternative soul of the place gives the sensation of having been transported to Brooklyn. One of the best vegan bakeries for snacks in Madrid.
📍 Calle Cristo, 3 (Conde Duque) and Calle corredera alta de San Pablo, 12 (Malasaña).
17. The secret garden
The Secret Garden is a hyper-decorated coffee shop, which also changes from time to time, with a specialty: chocolate. The menu offers suggestive names such as “Orgasmo por chocolate”, “Los susurros de la luna”, “Guateque loco” or “Dolce Vita”. Reservations are necessary (it’s not as secret as we’d like), but it’s worth it to have a drink, if only to marvel at the fantastic decor.
📍 Calle Conde Duque, 2 (Conde Duque)
18. Kaldi Café
There is no better place to watch life go by than the windows of Kaldi Café. From here there is a panoramic view of the picturesque Embajadores street, border between Lavapiés and La Latina, and its unpretentious atmosphere gives way to a well-deserved break to rest body and mind.
📍 Embajadores Street, 17 (Lavapiés)
19. The site
The site has delicious crepes for snacking Who could say no? There are options for all tastes: salty and sweet, with fruit, overflowing with chocolate, with sugar, ham and cheese… To die of taste one day after another. Due to this breadth of menu according to all ages, we affirm with certainty that this place enters our personal ranking of nice places to snack with children in Madrid.
📍 Calle Fernández de los Ríos, 93 (Chamberí)
20. Golda
Golda is a coffee shop serving Argentine-Israeli pastries and coffee from Hola Coffee. It is not clear if the name refers to the first woman president of Israel, Golda Meir, but behind it are the same owners of restaurants such as Fayer and Patio Seven, which follow the same Jewish gastronomic tradition. Between chocolate and pistachio Babkas and Rugelachs, they also serve açai bowls and matcha lattes throughout the day. At night, she changes her name to Golfa and becomes a wine bar.
📍 Calle de Orellana, 19 (Salesas)
Recovering the snacks is not only a trend, but the best way to get to know many of the new specialty cafeterias y bakeries with a bakery that are taking over the city, and also enjoy unhurried company.