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Madrid

Tapas, vermouth and late nights.

Experience Madrid

Madrid is Spain’s great tapas city, where the evening moves from bar to bar and the best meals are often eaten standing up.

The way inMajor airports
  • MADMadrid
What to spendCurrency
€EuroEUR · Cards widely accepted
What we sayLanguage
SpanishGraciasthank you
What we eatPopular dishes
  1. Cocido madrileño
  2. Bocadillo de calamares
  3. Churros con chocolate
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What we drinkLocal favorites
  1. Vermut de grifo
  2. Ribera del Duero
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Madrid gathers flavors from every corner of Spain and serves them with a capital’s confidence. Old taverns in La Latina and the streets around Plaza Mayor pour vermouth on tap, and neighborhood markets have become places to graze as much as to shop.

The city’s own dishes are hearty and unpretentious: a slow-simmered cocido, squid sandwiches, and churros dipped in thick chocolate long after midnight. At the same time, Madrid’s modern dining scene is among the most exciting in Europe.

Within easy reach of the capital lie the vineyards of Ribera del Duero and the castles and roast-lamb towns of Castile.

Insider tip from Richard

Do a late afternoon vermouth, then tapas. It's the Madrid way to ease into the evening.

Richard Gruica, your host
Before you go

Say it like a local.

A few words of Spanish go a long way at the table in Madrid.

  • ¡Hola! Say it: OH-lah hello
  • Gracias Say it: GRAH-see-ahs thank you
  • ¡Salud! Say it: sah-LOOD cheers
  • ¡Que aproveche! Say it: keh ah-proh-VEH-cheh enjoy your meal
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