Huertas is the kind of place where you can stop by any of the restaurants or bars during brunch hours for a light meal. For a Spanish brunch, choose any of the tapas or appetizers from the menus. To make your choice of where to eat easier, we’ve highlighted the 10 best places for a late breakfast below.
Le Comptoir de la Crêpe is a Breton crêperie with unusual decor inside. Try a dish from the menu of sweet pancakes, which come with a variety of condiments. Everything in the room is designed to make customers feel like they’re in a very unique place.
Ganz restaurant has a Spanish-based cuisine, with a French twist. They offer a different wine list, with many options procured from lesser known wineries. Try the dishes from their formal menu, come for brunch on weekends, or try their tapas menu. Ganz also have an art gallery that changes exhibitions monthly, and can be booked for events.
La Venencia
La Venencia bar is tucked into the side of a narrow street hidden from the busy city center, and is easy to miss if you don’t know exactly where to look. They have five different styles of sherry to choose from; oloroso, fino, manzanilla, and a few personal creations from the bar. Additionally, you can order food from a small selection of tapas dishes, such as cheese, olives or cured ham.
Cervecería Cervantes is a bar that provides a warm atmosphere and well-poured cañas. Waiters serve up seafood specialties, canapés, and beer at top speed. Both the gambas tostatas (prawn toast) and the percebes (goose barnacles) are highly recommended dishes. You’ll find the biggest crowd here just before lunchtime and again in the evening.
This charming restaurant, which offers traditional Madrid dishes, is inspired by the typical taverns of Castilla-Leon. The restaurant recreates a unique rural atmosphere with exposed wooden beams, tiled floors and stone columns. Prada a Tope‘s menu features smoked beef and black pudding, and boiled pork knuckle with potato, savoy cabbage and vegetable sofrito (a sauce with garlic, onion, paprika, tomatoes and peppers).
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With menus that are easy to understand and eclectic old-world decor, from bullfighting memorabilia to a fresco of skeletons at the bar, Los Gatos is a popular choice down at the southern end of Huertas. The most popular orders here are the canapés (tapas on toast), which are rather delicious. This place is a great choice for a quick snack on the go or for a light bite with a couple of beers.
From the moment the staff welcomes you inside Lizarran, you know you’re in good hands with their attentive service. No matter what time you visit the restaurant, they will always have something special prepared for you. Their kebabs come highly recommended as they are made with premium Spanish ingredients.
Las Bravas
Right in the center of the city, Las Bravas is the ideal place to have some refreshments after visiting the old quarter or the Barrio de las Letras – the so-called Writers Quarter. Enjoy some cañas in a street with the greatest, and most vibrant atmosphere in Madrid, only a few meters away from the Puerta del Sol.
Cervecería Santa Ana
The Cervecería Santa Ana brewery is a fantastic place to meet up with friends, get to know city center and, of course, have the best tapas and beers in Madrid. There are two entrances that lead into two different spaces, one with seating and one without, and there are tables outside. This choice of brewery is good for a light lunch or brunch, with salads and a range of pulgas (small rolls).
Talitha is currently an undergraduate student at Queen’s University Belfast studying English Language and Literature. Her main interests include drinking tea, playing and watching tennis, also, a big fan on eating and the outdoors. Exercise is part of her life even if it is a walk in the park. She loves to read books with a criminal and detective twist. Looking for a career in writing she spends time improving her skills. If she could, she would love to travel to America and Spain again.
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