Must-see nightlife in Chueca

  • Museo Chicote: cocktails & bar snacks in an iconic 1930s locale with old photographs & live music performances.

    Museo Chicote

    Chueca

    This place is a Madrid landmark, complete with its 1930s-era interior, and its founder is said to have invented more than 100 cocktails, which the likes…

  • Diurno Cocktails & global dishes served in a sophisticated restaurant & bar with a DVD rental service.

    Diurno

    Chueca

    One of the most important hubs of barrio life in Chueca, this cafe-bar has become to modern Chueca what the grand literary cafes were to another age. It’s…

  • Café Belén in Madrid

    Café Belén

    Chueca

    Café Belén is cool in all the right places – lounge and chill-out music, dim lighting, a great range of drinks and a low…

  • Macera's entrance on Calle San Mateo.

    Macera

    Chueca

    This bar defies labels – literally. Macera’s crew distils all of their own spirits, which makes for both an impressive cocktail list and a striking…

  • Gran Café de Gijón

    Chueca

    This graceful old cafe has been serving coffee and meals since 1888 and has long been favoured by Madrid’s literati for a drink or a meal – all of Spain’s…

  • Café-Restaurante El Espejo

    Chueca

    Once a haunt of writers and intellectuals, this architectural gem blends Modernista and art-deco styles, and its interior could well overwhelm you with…

  • Lola09

    Chueca

    A happy Madrid crowd packs this place out on weekends. The food's good, but it's the designer cocktails that make the bar stand out. If you get here any…

  • Antigua Casa Angel Sierra.

    Antigua Casa Ángel Sierra

    Chueca

    This historic old taberna (tavern) is the antithesis of modern Chueca chic – it has hardly changed since it opened in 1917. As Spaniards like to say, the…

  • Areia's bar restaurant facade.

    Areia

    Chueca

    The ultimate lounge bar by day (cushions, chill-out music and dark secluded corners where you can hear yourself talk or even snog quietly), this place is…

  • Why Not?

    Chueca

    Underground, narrow and packed with bodies, gay-friendly Why Not? is the sort of place where nothing’s left to the imagination (the gay and straight crowd…

  • Bar Cock

    Chueca

    With a name like this, Bar Cock could go either way, but it’s definitely cock as in ‘rooster’. The decor evokes an old gentlemen’s club and the feeling is…

  • Café Acuarela

    Chueca

    A few steps up the hill from Plaza de Chueca, this longtime centrepiece of gay Madrid – a huge statue of a nude male angel guards the doorway – is an…

  • Mamá Inés

    Chueca

    A gay meeting place, this cafe-bar has a laid-back ambience by day and a romantic (never sleazy) air by night. You can get breakfast, yummy pastries and…

  • Del Diego

    Chueca

    Del Diego is one of the city’s most celebrated cocktail bars. The decor blends old-world cafe with New York style, and it’s the sort of place where the…

  • Angelita

    Chueca

    Just back from Gran Vía, Angelita has one of the best wine lists of any bar in Madrid, with more than 20 choices by the glass and nearly 500 different…

  • Club 54 Studio

    Chueca

    Modelled on the famous New York club Studio 54, this nightclub draws a predominantly gay crowd, but its target market is more upmarket than many in the…

  • La Terraza de Óscar

    Chueca

    One of Madrid's stunning rooftop terraces, this chilled space atop Hotel Óscar, with gorgeous skyline views and a small swimming pool, has become…

  • Gin Club

    Chueca

    As you'd expect, it's all about gin here, with more than 40 different types available including gin with coffee (El Gin Coffee). There's a bar to sit at…

  • Stop Madrid, an iconic wine bar in central Madrid.

    Stop Madrid

    Chueca

    The name may not be Madrid’s most evocative but this terrific old taberna is friendly, invariably packed and wins the vote of at least one Lonely Planet…

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