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  1. Rank 495. Bar Sauvage

    Cocktail Bar

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  2. Rank 495. Bar Volta

    Cocktail Bar

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  3. The name is a nod to the old cotton-beating process, which is a clever way to remind you that you're drinking in a converted mercantile palace. Inside, though, the cocktail bar skips the grandeur for something quieter: timber, leather, and low light while the Eixample buzzes outside. The list runs classic to seasonal signature, the kind of bar where you can order either without embarrassment.

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  4. Rank 495. Bestial Bar

    Cocktail Bar

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  6. Rank 495. Bluesman

    Cocktail Bar

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  7. Rank 495. Boa Bao

    Cocktail Bar

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  8. Rank 495. Bobby's Free

    Cocktail Bar

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  9. Rank 495. Bonavista Rooftop

    Cocktail Bar

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  10. Rank 495. Caracortada

    Cocktail Bar

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    Address
    Pg. de Colom, 20, Ciutat Vella, Barcelona, 08002, Spain · Barcelona
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Friday Noon–5 PM, 7 PM–1 AM

    Online
    WebsiteInstagram
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  15. Rank 495. Cobbler

    Cocktail Bar

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  16. Rank 495. Collage

    Cocktail Bar

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  17. Rank 495. Dangerous Water

    Cocktail Bar

    A cocktail bar tucked into a corner of Palma's old market square, its name borrowed from the hobo code used during Prohibition, a secret sign that alcohol was hidden nearby. About twenty seats inside and a small terrace keep things close, which suits a place where every drink is made with housemade ingredients and the team has strong opinions about not chasing trends. Order something off the signature list and let them explain it.

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  18. Rank 495. Dorita Club at Hotel España

    Mediterranean Cocktail Bar

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  19. A discreet door off the street opens into a dim, velvet-and-shadow cocktail bar styled after the private haunts of 1970s New York's moneyed class. The concept is unabashedly theatrical, and the drinks lean into it: the team uses fine-dining technique to render things like tiramisu and cinnamon rolls as cocktails, which sounds gimmicky until you're two in and reconsidering your life choices. Difford's Guide has taken notice.

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    Address
    C. del Infante, 5, Centro, Madrid, 28014, Spain · Madrid
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 6 PM

    Friday 6 PM–2:30 AM

    Online
    WebsiteInstagram
  20. Rank 495. Ficus Bar

    Cocktail Bar

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    Address
    Calle De Santo Tomé 8, Centro, Madrid, 28004, Spain · Madrid
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 3:30 PM

    Friday 3:30 PM–2:30 AM

    Online
    Website
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  22. Rank 495. Focacha

    Cocktail Bar

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  23. Rank 495. Funambulista

    Cocktail Bar

    A cocktail bar on Calle de las Huertas where the espresso martini comes with a sustainability footnote, made with vanilla beans recycled from other productions and cold brew steeped for a full day. The philosophy, as the team puts it, is product, service, and experience in harmony, which sounds lofty until the drink arrives and the argument makes itself. Difford's Guide has taken note.

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  24. Rank 495. Gangsta's Paradise

    Cocktail Bar

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  25. Rank 495. Gimlet Bar

    Cocktail Bar

    Bartenders in white chef's coats shaking Gimlets behind a bar dressed in polished plaster, blackened wood, and lipstick-red seating: the room looks like a Manhattan lounge but runs like a neighborhood spot. This cocktail bar in the Sarrià-Sant Gervasi is the uptown sibling of a downtown original, now under the ownership of the team behind the famous Dry Martini on Aribau. Locals of all ages come in without ceremony for classic cocktails, the Gimlet and Dry Martini especially.

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  26. Rank 495. Inclán Brutal Bar

    Cocktail Bar

    The cocktail menu runs to eight drinks, and the team seems to regard that as plenty. Inclán Brutal Bar is a cocktail bar in Centro where the glassware is as considered as what's in it, trompe l'oeil details and all. The short list swings between originals and classics treated with unusual fidelity, which is a rarer combination than it sounds. A good room to visit when you want someone to have thought very hard about your drink.

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  27. Rank 495. Jacqueline

    Cocktail Bar

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  29. Rank 495. La Femme Bistrot

    Cocktail Bar

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  31. Rank 495. La Higuera

    Cocktail Bar

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  32. Rank 495. La Peligrosa

    Cocktail Bar

    A cocktail bar in Retiro that names itself after danger and more or less means it. The house Espresso Martini runs on Ketel One infused with vanilla, Pedro Ximénez, homemade banana syrup, cold brew, and cacao bitters, finished with a cacao crumble and dehydrated plantain chips. The coffee comes from a neighborhood shop that works with small local farmers, which is a surprisingly earnest detail for a bar with this much attitude.

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  34. The Lobby Bar at The Madrid Edition is the kind of hotel cocktail bar where the room does most of the talking, all marble and low light and the quiet confidence of people who have somewhere to be later. The signature espresso martini uses Café Baque coffee, a Madrid roaster with roots in local farming communities, which gives the bar's small-batch conscience something to actually point to.

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    Address
    Plaza De Celenque, 2, Madrid, 28013, Spain · Madrid
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–1 AM

    Reserve
    SevenRooms
    Online
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  36. Rank 495. Lying Club Born

    Cocktail Bar

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  38. Rank 495. Maldita Gioconda

    Cocktail Bar

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  39. Rank 495. Mauz

    Cocktail Bar

    Mirrored walls and warm wood paneling line this cocktail bar on Echegaray, Madrid's reliable street for a late night out. The signature Espresso Martini swaps the usual formula for cold brew, house coffee liqueur, and local heather honey sourced from a neighborhood beekeeper working on native bee recovery, which is a more interesting origin story than most bars bother with. The room gets festive well before midnight.

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  41. The house-made cherry jam in the Espresso Martini comes from a cooperative run by people with intellectual disabilities, which tells you a lot about how this cocktail bar operates. Moonlight Experimental Bar sits in Zaragoza's Casco Antiguo, where the team, led by Spain's 2024 World Class Competition winner, treats the bar as a platform for social projects as much as a place to drink something memorable.

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  42. Rank 495. Motor Oil

    Cocktail Bar

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  43. Rank 495. Negresco Princess

    Cocktail Bar

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  44. Rank 495. Nola

    Cocktail Bar

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  45. Rank 495. Noxe

    Japanese

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  46. Rank 495. Opera Acid

    Cocktail Bar

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  48. Rank 495. Princess Hotel

    Cocktail Bar

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  49. The signature Espresso Martini swaps refined sugar for raw honey sourced from a small Guadalajara beekeeper, which is either a genuinely thoughtful choice or the most Spanish possible way to make a cocktail sound like a nature documentary. Either way, the drink is built around Ketel One macerated in rosemary and house coffee liqueur. This is a hotel cocktail bar inside the JW Marriott, polished and well-positioned, with Difford's Guide taking note.

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  51. The Espresso Martini here comes with a coffee foam, an egg yolk, and a cookie wafer sourced from a local convent whose proceeds go to people in need, which gives ordering a cocktail a quietly unusual moral weight. Santos y Desamparados is a bar in Madrid's Centro, the kind where a drink can arrive with a small story attached. The room pulls in locals who know where they are, geographically and otherwise.

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  52. Rank 495. Space Cowboy

    Cocktail Bar

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  53. Rank 495. Stereo 18

    Cocktail Bar

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  55. Rank 495. The Circle

    Cocktail Bar

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  56. Rank 495. The Lot Barcelona

    Cocktail Bar

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  58. Rank 495. Torcuato

    Cocktail Bar

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    Address
    Calle Serrano 61, Madrid, 28006, Spain · Madrid
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 1:30 PM

    Friday 1:30 PM–1 AM

    Online
    WebsiteInstagram
  59. Rank 495. Vesou by Collage

    Cocktail Bar

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  60. Rank 495. Vivo Tapas

    Spanish Cocktail Bar

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    Address
    Carrer del Rosselló, 255, Barcelona, 08008, Spain · Barcelona
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 12:30 PM

    Friday 12:30 PM–2 AM

    Online
    WebsiteInstagram
  61. Rank 495. Zingara

    Cocktail Bar

    The Espresso Martini here gets the fat-washing treatment, with Ketel One infused with dark chocolate and a coffee liqueur steeped in orange peel, finished under a coconut and white chocolate foam. Zingara is a cocktail bar near Plaza de Salesas whose menu drifts between cultures by design, the name nodding to Romani nomadism. Difford's Guide lists it among bars worth knowing in Madrid.

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