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Rank 1959. Lobby Bar at The Madrid Edition
Cocktail Bar
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.
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide
A Tie
There are 74 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1959. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1959 La Peligrosa 49.888
- #1959 La Perla Club l Coctelería 49.888
- #1959 Lobby Bar at The Madrid Edition (this place) 49.888
- #1959 Lovo Cocktail Bar 49.888
- #1959 Lying Club Born 49.888
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The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide
A Tie
There are 74 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1959. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1959 La Perla Club l Coctelería 49.888
- #1959 Lobby Bar at The Madrid Edition 49.888
- #1959 Lovo Cocktail Bar (this place) 49.888
- #1959 Lying Club Born 49.888
- #1959 Magma 49.888
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Rank 1959. Lying Club Born
Cocktail Bar
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide
A Tie
There are 74 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1959. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1959 Lobby Bar at The Madrid Edition 49.888
- #1959 Lovo Cocktail Bar 49.888
- #1959 Lying Club Born (this place) 49.888
- #1959 Magma 49.888
- #1959 Maldita Gioconda 49.888
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The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide
A Tie
There are 74 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1959. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1959 Lovo Cocktail Bar 49.888
- #1959 Lying Club Born 49.888
- #1959 Magma (this place) 49.888
- #1959 Maldita Gioconda 49.888
- #1959 Mauz 49.888
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Rank 1959. Maldita Gioconda
Cocktail Bar
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide
A Tie
There are 74 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1959. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1959 Lying Club Born 49.888
- #1959 Magma 49.888
- #1959 Maldita Gioconda (this place) 49.888
- #1959 Mauz 49.888
- #1959 Momus Cocktail Bar 49.888
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Rank 1959. 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.
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide
A Tie
There are 74 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1959. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1959 Magma 49.888
- #1959 Maldita Gioconda 49.888
- #1959 Mauz (this place) 49.888
- #1959 Momus Cocktail Bar 49.888
- #1959 Monk 49.888
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Rank 1959. Momus Cocktail Bar
Cocktail Bar
A cocktail bar in Madrid's Centro that bills itself as liquid theatre, invoking the Greek god of sarcasm and mockery, which turns out to be a surprisingly honest mission statement. The drinks lean avant-garde, and the room keeps things spare and minimal so nothing distracts from what's in the glass. Honey from a beekeeping collective in the Sierra Norte mountains finds its way into the drinks, which is either poetic or ironic, probably both.
The awards
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
- The 50 The 50 Discovery
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide
A Tie
There are 74 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1959. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1959 Maldita Gioconda 49.888
- #1959 Mauz 49.888
- #1959 Momus Cocktail Bar (this place) 49.888
- #1959 Monk 49.888
- #1959 Moonlight Experimental Bar 49.888
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The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide
A Tie
There are 74 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1959. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1959 Mauz 49.888
- #1959 Momus Cocktail Bar 49.888
- #1959 Monk (this place) 49.888
- #1959 Moonlight Experimental Bar 49.888
- #1959 Motor Oil 49.888
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Rank 1959. Moonlight Experimental Bar
Cocktail Bar
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.
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide
A Tie
There are 74 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1959. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1959 Momus Cocktail Bar 49.888
- #1959 Monk 49.888
- #1959 Moonlight Experimental Bar (this place) 49.888
- #1959 Motor Oil 49.888
- #1959 Negresco Princess 49.888
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Rank 1959. Motor Oil
Cocktail Bar
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide
A Tie
There are 74 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1959. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1959 Monk 49.888
- #1959 Moonlight Experimental Bar 49.888
- #1959 Motor Oil (this place) 49.888
- #1959 Negresco Princess 49.888
- #1959 Nola 49.888
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Rank 1959. Negresco Princess
Cocktail Bar
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide
A Tie
There are 74 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1959. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1959 Moonlight Experimental Bar 49.888
- #1959 Motor Oil 49.888
- #1959 Negresco Princess (this place) 49.888
- #1959 Nola 49.888
- #1959 Noxe 49.888
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Rank 1959. Nola
Cocktail Bar
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide
A Tie
There are 74 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1959. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1959 Motor Oil 49.888
- #1959 Negresco Princess 49.888
- #1959 Nola (this place) 49.888
- #1959 Noxe 49.888
- #1959 Opera Acid 49.888
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Rank 1959. Noxe
Japanese
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide
A Tie
There are 74 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1959. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1959 Negresco Princess 49.888
- #1959 Nola 49.888
- #1959 Noxe (this place) 49.888
- #1959 Opera Acid 49.888
- #1959 Picalagartos Sky Bar and Restaurant at Hotel NH Collection 49.888
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Rank 1959. Opera Acid
Cocktail Bar
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide
A Tie
There are 74 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1959. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1959 Nola 49.888
- #1959 Noxe 49.888
- #1959 Opera Acid (this place) 49.888
- #1959 Picalagartos Sky Bar and Restaurant at Hotel NH Collection 49.888
- #1959 Princess Hotel 49.888
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Rank 1959. Picalagartos Sky Bar and Restaurant at Hotel NH Collection
Spanish Cocktail Bar
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide
A Tie
There are 74 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1959. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1959 Noxe 49.888
- #1959 Opera Acid 49.888
- #1959 Picalagartos Sky Bar and Restaurant at Hotel NH Collection (this place) 49.888
- #1959 Princess Hotel 49.888
- #1959 QÚ by Mario Sandoval Restaurant and Bar at JW Marriott 49.888
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Rank 1959. Princess Hotel
Cocktail Bar
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide
A Tie
There are 74 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1959. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1959 Opera Acid 49.888
- #1959 Picalagartos Sky Bar and Restaurant at Hotel NH Collection 49.888
- #1959 Princess Hotel (this place) 49.888
- #1959 QÚ by Mario Sandoval Restaurant and Bar at JW Marriott 49.888
- #1959 Santamaría Coctelería 49.888
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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.
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide
A Tie
There are 74 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1959. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1959 Picalagartos Sky Bar and Restaurant at Hotel NH Collection 49.888
- #1959 Princess Hotel 49.888
- #1959 QÚ by Mario Sandoval Restaurant and Bar at JW Marriott (this place) 49.888
- #1959 Santamaría Coctelería 49.888
- #1959 Santos y Desamparados 49.888
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Rank 1959. Santamaría Coctelería
Cocktail Bar
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide
A Tie
There are 74 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1959. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1959 Princess Hotel 49.888
- #1959 QÚ by Mario Sandoval Restaurant and Bar at JW Marriott 49.888
- #1959 Santamaría Coctelería (this place) 49.888
- #1959 Santos y Desamparados 49.888
- #1959 Savas 49.888
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Rank 1959. Santos y Desamparados
Cocktail Bar
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.
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide
A Tie
There are 74 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1959. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1959 QÚ by Mario Sandoval Restaurant and Bar at JW Marriott 49.888
- #1959 Santamaría Coctelería 49.888
- #1959 Santos y Desamparados (this place) 49.888
- #1959 Savas 49.888
- #1959 Space Cowboy 49.888
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Rank 1959. Savas
Cocktail Bar
The awards
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
- The 50 The 50 Discovery
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide
A Tie
There are 74 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1959. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1959 Santamaría Coctelería 49.888
- #1959 Santos y Desamparados 49.888
- #1959 Savas (this place) 49.888
- #1959 Space Cowboy 49.888
- #1959 Stereo 18 49.888
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Rank 1959. Space Cowboy
Cocktail Bar
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide
A Tie
There are 74 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1959. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1959 Santos y Desamparados 49.888
- #1959 Savas 49.888
- #1959 Space Cowboy (this place) 49.888
- #1959 Stereo 18 49.888
- #1959 Tarde.O at Rosewood Villa Magna 49.888
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Rank 1959. Stereo 18
Cocktail Bar
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide
A Tie
There are 74 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1959. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1959 Savas 49.888
- #1959 Space Cowboy 49.888
- #1959 Stereo 18 (this place) 49.888
- #1959 Tarde.O at Rosewood Villa Magna 49.888
- #1959 The Circle 49.888
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Rank 1959. Tarde.O at Rosewood Villa Magna
Cocktail Bar
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide
A Tie
There are 74 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1959. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1959 Space Cowboy 49.888
- #1959 Stereo 18 49.888
- #1959 Tarde.O at Rosewood Villa Magna (this place) 49.888
- #1959 The Circle 49.888
- #1959 The Lot Barcelona 49.888
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Rank 1959. The Circle
Cocktail Bar
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide
A Tie
There are 74 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1959. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1959 Stereo 18 49.888
- #1959 Tarde.O at Rosewood Villa Magna 49.888
- #1959 The Circle (this place) 49.888
- #1959 The Lot Barcelona 49.888
- #1959 Tickets and 41 Degrees 49.888
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Rank 1959. The Lot Barcelona
Cocktail Bar
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide
A Tie
There are 74 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1959. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1959 Tarde.O at Rosewood Villa Magna 49.888
- #1959 The Circle 49.888
- #1959 The Lot Barcelona (this place) 49.888
- #1959 Tickets and 41 Degrees 49.888
- #1959 Torcuato 49.888
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The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide
A Tie
There are 74 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1959. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1959 The Circle 49.888
- #1959 The Lot Barcelona 49.888
- #1959 Tickets and 41 Degrees (this place) 49.888
- #1959 Torcuato 49.888
- #1959 Two Schmucks 49.888
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Rank 1959. Torcuato
Cocktail Bar
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide
A Tie
There are 74 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1959. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1959 The Lot Barcelona 49.888
- #1959 Tickets and 41 Degrees 49.888
- #1959 Torcuato (this place) 49.888
- #1959 Two Schmucks 49.888
- #1959 Vesou by Collage 49.888
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Rank 1959. Two Schmucks
Dive Bar
Graffiti walls, mismatched furniture made from recycled odds and ends, and a cocktail menu where the drinks have names like Wasabi Wan Kanobi. Two Schmucks, tucked down a side street in El Raval, calls itself a five-star dive bar, which is both accurate and the best possible pitch. Ice-cold beers go out as fast as cocktails, and nobody is keeping score either way.
The awards
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
- The 50 The 50 Discovery
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide
A Tie
There are 74 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1959. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1959 Tickets and 41 Degrees 49.888
- #1959 Torcuato 49.888
- #1959 Two Schmucks (this place) 49.888
- #1959 Vesou by Collage 49.888
- #1959 Viva Madrid 49.888
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Rank 1959. Vesou by Collage
Cocktail Bar
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide
A Tie
There are 74 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1959. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1959 Torcuato 49.888
- #1959 Two Schmucks 49.888
- #1959 Vesou by Collage (this place) 49.888
- #1959 Viva Madrid 49.888
- #1959 Vivo Tapas 49.888
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Rank 1959. Viva Madrid
Cocktail Bar
The azulejos tiles and carved wooden facade have been pulling people off the street in Las Letras since forever. Up front it reads like a classic Madrid taverna, wine and fino and all the rest; out back, Diego Cabrera of Salmón Gurú runs a cocktail bar that gives the old bones something to talk about. The crowd arrives for tapas and stays longer than planned, which is more or less the idea.
The awards
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
- The 50 The 50 Discovery
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide
A Tie
There are 74 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1959. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1959 Two Schmucks 49.888
- #1959 Vesou by Collage 49.888
- #1959 Viva Madrid (this place) 49.888
- #1959 Vivo Tapas 49.888
- #1959 Zingara 49.888
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Rank 1959. Vivo Tapas
Spanish Cocktail Bar
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide
A Tie
There are 74 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1959. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1959 Two Schmucks 49.888
- #1959 Vesou by Collage 49.888
- #1959 Viva Madrid 49.888
- #1959 Vivo Tapas (this place) 49.888
- #1959 Zingara 49.888
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Rank 1959. 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.
The awards
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide: Difford's Guide
- Difford's Guide Difford's Guide
A Tie
There are 74 places with the exact same Score, so they share #1959. We don't pick a winner we can't back up.
- #1959 Two Schmucks 49.888
- #1959 Vesou by Collage 49.888
- #1959 Viva Madrid 49.888
- #1959 Vivo Tapas 49.888
- #1959 Zingara (this place) 49.888