# Best Tapas in Madrid > 15 Madrid tapas bars and tabernas worth the trip, from an 1892 vermut bodega and an 1860 bacalao taberna to award-winning newer counters near the Retiro. - **Canonical URL:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/best-tapas - **City:** Madrid, Spain - **Published:** 2026-09-27 - **Updated:** 2026-10-04 - **Author:** Justin Mota, Guidavera founder - **Reading time:** 15 min ## Introduction Madrid tapeo runs on tabernas that have barely changed their menus in decades and modern bars that just picked up their first industry award. Bodega La Ardosa has poured its own vermut from the same tap since 1892; La Catapa, opened in 2010, won the Academia Madrileña de Gastronomía's Best Bar/Taberna prize in 2025. Both count. We built this list from the venues we've profiled and the ones that keep showing up across Madrid's editorial tapas coverage, from esMadrid's own guide to independent food writers, cross-checked against real awards, Repsol listings and each venue's own record. ## Key picks at a glance - **Best historic taberna** — [Casa Labra](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/casa-labra): bacalao and soldaditos de pavía since 1860, with a 2023 Academia Madrileña award to match. - **Best vermut bodega** — [Bodega La Ardosa](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/bodega-la-ardosa): its own vermut on tap since 1892, credited by El Español as an early importer of foreign beer. - **Best award-winning newcomer** — [VRRO](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/varro): Premios Metrópoli's Best Tapas Bar in 2024, from the team behind Varra. - **Best wine cellar** — [Taberna Laredo](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/taberna-laredo): roughly 250 references, run by Miguel Laredo, the 2025 Premios Gastronómicos Sala/Sumiller winner. - **Best tapas-and-cocktails combo** — [Angelita](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/angelita): the Villalón brothers' wine and cocktail bar, on the World's 50 Best Bars extended list twice. ## A guide to Tapas in Madrid ### What is tapeo? Tapeo is the Spanish habit of moving between bars for small plates, usually standing or at the counter, ordering a couple of dishes at a time rather than sitting down to a full meal. It's the format every venue on this list is built around. ### What's the difference between a tapa and a ración? A tapa is a small bite, often a single portion. A ración is a full-size shared plate, and a media-ración splits the difference. Most tabernas on this list serve both, so you can scale a stop up or down depending on how hungry the group is. ### What's a taberna? A taberna is an old-school Spanish tavern, traditionally family-run, built around a fixed set of classic dishes and often a serious wine or vermut list. Several places here, including Bodega La Ardosa and Casa Labra, have run as tabernas for well over a century. ### What is a Repsol Solete? The Solete is the Guía Repsol's distinction for good, casual, honestly priced places, one tier below the full Sol rating aimed at sit-down restaurants. Casa Labra, Manero and Bodegas Rosell all hold one. ### Why do so many of these cluster around the Retiro? La Raquetista, Taberna Laredo and Taberna & Media are all within the Ibiza and Niño Jesús neighbourhoods on the eastern edge of the Retiro, an area with a dense run of tabernas built around fine-dining regulars and wine professionals as much as tourists. > "In Madrid tapeo, the small plate at the bar is the point, not a side order." ## How we built this list We built this list from two directions: the restaurants we've profiled, filtered down to bars and restaurants where tapas and raciones at the bar are the core format rather than a side note to a sit-down menu, and the editorial coverage that actually ranks for tapas searches in Madrid, including esMadrid's official guide, the Spanish food site gastroactitud, and independent travel writers. We cross-checked every claim against each venue's own published detail, Repsol and Michelin listings where they exist, and real, named awards like the Academia Madrileña de Gastronomía and the Premios Metrópoli. A few well-cited names from the source articles, including Docamar and Fide, don't have a Guidavera page yet, so we've left them off rather than write around a gap. Where a source's description didn't match what we could verify in a venue's own record, we used our own record. ## The 15 best Tapas Bars, compared | # | Restaurant | Neighbourhood | Price | Distinction | Signature dish | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1 | [Bodega La Ardosa](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/bodega-la-ardosa) | Universidad | € | — | — | | 2 | [Casa Labra](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/casa-labra) | Sol | € | Repsol Solete | — | | 3 | [La Catapa](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/la-catapa) | Ibiza | €€ | Repsol 1 Sol | — | | 4 | [La Raquetista](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/la-raquetista) | Ibiza | €€ | Repsol Recomendado | — | | 5 | [Taberna Laredo](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/taberna-laredo) | Ibiza/Niño Jesús | €€€ | Repsol Recomendado | — | | 6 | [Manero](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/manero) | Recoletos | €€ | Repsol Solete | — | | 7 | [Bodegas Rosell](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/bodegas-rosell) | Delicias | € | Repsol Solete | — | | 8 | [VRRO](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/varro) | Castellana | €€ | — | — | | 9 | [Angelita](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/angelita) | Chueca | €€ | Repsol Recomendado | — | | 10 | [Taberna & Media](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/taberna-media) | Ibiza | €€ | Repsol Recomendado | — | | 11 | [Hevia](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/hevia) | Castellana | €€€ | — | — | | 12 | [El Anciano Rey de los Vinos](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/el-anciano-rey-de-los-vinos) | Palacio | €€ | — | — | | 13 | [Melo's](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/melos) | Lavapiés | € | — | — | | 14 | [La Perejila](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/la-perejila) | Palacio | €€ | — | — | | 15 | [La Musa Latina](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/la-musa-latina) | Palacio | €€ | — | — | ## The 15 best Tapas Bars in Madrid ### 1. Bodega La Ardosa *Vermut on tap in a Madrid tavern since 1892* - **Neighbourhood:** Universidad - **Address:** C/ Colon, 13, 28004 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** € - **Website:** https://grupoardosa.es/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/bodega-la-ardosa Bodega La Ardosa has been pouring its own vermut from a dedicated tap on Calle Colón since 1892, when Toledo vineyard owner Rafael Fernández Bagena opened it as part of a chain of Ardosa bodegas selling his own wine. More than a century on it's still a bar de toda la vida, and El Español credits it as one of the first bars in Madrid to bring in imported beer. The kitchen keeps to the classics: tortilla de patatas, salmorejo with jamón and egg, rabas, fried squid and salt cod, plus a croqueta lineup that runs to cabrales, shrimp, cecina and bacalao. esMadrid singles out the deep-fried pig's ears, tortilla and preserved shellfish. It's the kind of place where nothing on the menu has changed much, and nobody wants it to. **Order:** - undefined - undefined - undefined ### 2. Casa Labra *Soldaditos de pavía at a taberna since 1860* - **Neighbourhood:** Sol - **Address:** C / Tetuan, 12, 28013 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** € - **Distinction:** Repsol Solete - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/casa-labra Casa Labra has served bacalao from the same spot in Sol since 1860, and it still keeps the old-Madrid habit of separate counters for ordering food and drink. The soldaditos de pavía, battered and fried strips of cod, are the reason people queue, alongside cod croquetas, bacalao al ajoarriero, a cod omelette, banderillas, jamón ibérico cured for 36 months and vermouth on tap. Spain's Socialist Party was founded inside these walls in 1879. In 2023 the Academia Madrileña de Gastronomía gave Casa Labra its Premio al Plato Castizo for the soldaditos it's served since the beginning, an award current owners Manuel and Álvaro Molina accepted on the restaurant's behalf. esMadrid calls out the same soldaditos de pavía and croquettes by name. **Order:** - undefined - undefined - undefined > "soldaditos de pavía (battered cod pieces) and croquettes" — esMadrid ### 3. La Catapa *Repsol Sol taberna, Best Bar/Taberna award 2025* - **Neighbourhood:** Ibiza - **Address:** Calle Menorca, 14, 28009 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€ - **Distinction:** Repsol 1 Sol - **Website:** https://tabernalacatapa.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/la-catapa Miguel Ángel Jiménez opened La Catapa in 2010 after years cooking in some of Madrid's better-known fine-dining rooms of the era, among them El Comedor, Príncipe de Viana and El Amparo. He wanted a tavern with soul rather than another star chase, and in 2025 the Academia Madrileña de Gastronomía agreed, naming La Catapa Best Bar/Taberna. The kitchen blends classical Spanish cooking with contemporary technique: potato and truffle croquettes, cecina, and a rotating daily seafood selection laid out at the bar for diners to choose from. It holds a Repsol Sol and a wine list built with the same care as the food. gastroactitud picked out the croquetas, ensaladilla, cecina and anchoas by name. **Order:** - undefined - undefined ### 4. La Raquetista *Basque-pelota family taberna with a deep wine cellar* - **Neighbourhood:** Ibiza - **Address:** Doctor Castelo, 19, 28009 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€ - **Distinction:** Repsol Recomendado - **Website:** https://www.laraquetista.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/la-raquetista Brothers Javier and Paco opened La Raquetista in the Ibiza neighbourhood in the summer of 2015 as a double homage: to Bodegas Santurce, the winery that had closed that year after 53 years, and to their maternal family's pelota-playing history, a line that ran from Bilbao to Barcelona, Madrid, Mallorca, Miami, Milan and Manila. Paco, a former automotive press officer, built the wine cellar himself. The kitchen works from seasonal, market-driven tapas: red partridge, game meats, Navarrese vegetables and market fish, finished with a torrija made from the sobaos of Selaya. It holds a Repsol Recomendado listing. Both gastroactitud and esMadrid cite it, the latter pointing diners straight to the curried oxtail. **Order:** - undefined - undefined > "top-quality ingredients and bold combinations. Try the curried oxtail" — esMadrid ### 5. Taberna Laredo *Family-run wine taberna near the Retiro, 250-bottle cellar* - **Neighbourhood:** Ibiza/Niño Jesús - **Address:** C/ Doctor Castelo, 30 - 28009 - Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€€ - **Distinction:** Repsol Recomendado - **Website:** https://tabernalaredo.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/taberna-laredo Brothers David, Javier and Miguel Laredo run this family taberna on Calle Doctor Castelo, between the Ibiza and Niño Jesús neighbourhoods just north-east of the Retiro. The family opened its first taberna in 1993 and moved to this address in 2012. Tapas and raciones get served informally off a big bar counter, with a livelier, more modern room behind it that's become a meeting point for fine-dining regulars and wine professionals. Miguel has run the wine programme for more than thirty years, building a cellar of roughly 250 references with real depth in champagne and Burgundy, and in 2025 he won Sala/Sumiller honours at the Premios Gastronómicos de Madrid. The cooking is produce-driven and traditional: jamón ibérico, croquetas, salmorejo. gastroactitud names the ensaladilla, callos, salmorejo and manitas specifically. **Order:** - undefined - undefined - undefined > "ensaladilla, callos, salmorejo, manitas" — gastroactitud ### 6. Manero *Classic sharing plates and delicatessen on Claudio Coello* - **Neighbourhood:** Recoletos - **Address:** Claudio Coello, 3, 28001, Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€ - **Distinction:** Repsol Solete - **Website:** https://barmanero.es/bar-manero-en-madrid - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/manero Manero is the Claudio Coello address of the Bar Manero name, a stylish tapas bar and delicatessen in the Recoletos and Salamanca part of central Madrid, holding a Repsol Solete. The room is classic and elegant, the cooking traditional and built for sharing, with a delicatessen counter running alongside it. Bar Manero also runs a separate branch on Marqués de Cubas. gastroactitud calls out the lobster roll by name, alongside rabo de toro and pastrami, and unbuendiaenmadrid cites the ensaladilla with marisco. Prices sit in the €26 to €50 range, on the higher end for a tapas bar but in line with the quality of the counter. **Order:** - undefined - undefined > "lobster roll" — gastroactitud ### 7. Bodegas Rosell *Old-school Delicias tavern with a Repsol Solete* - **Neighbourhood:** Delicias - **Address:** General Lacy, 14, 28045, Madrid, Spain - **Price:** € - **Distinction:** Repsol Solete - **Website:** http://bodegasrosell.es/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/bodegas-rosell Bodegas Rosell is a classic, rustic tavern on Calle General Lacy in Delicias, holding a Repsol Solete for its traditional Madrid cooking. The Rosell family turned an old bulk-wine shop near Atocha into this taberna in 1920. The kitchen is ingredient-led and good value: bacalao Rosell, callos a la madrileña, homemade croquetas, boquerones en vinagre and a long list of tostas, with a cocido madrileño available to order for groups. Spain Revealed singles out the wine list as one of the better ones in the neighbourhood, and gastroactitud names the croquetas and Madrid-region wines specifically. It's often hard to book. **Order:** - undefined - undefined - undefined > "wonderful wine list" — Spain Revealed ### 8. VRRO *2024 Premios Metrópoli Best Tapas Bar winner* - **Neighbourhood:** Castellana - **Address:** Calle de Serrano, 93, Madrid, Spain, 28006 - **Price:** €€ - **Website:** https://www.vrrorestaurante.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/varro VRRO is the casual, counter-led spin-off of Varra, opened on Calle Serrano by chefs Jorge Velasco and Joaquín Serrano when they wanted a more accessible version of their restaurant. The format trades formality for a long bar and high tables, built around seasonal Mediterranean sharing plates: Joselito ham croquettes, ensaladilla, anchovies in vermouth and a cecina, truffle and cheese bikini. In 2024 it won Best Tapas Bar at the Premios Metrópoli, one of the clearer third-party validations on this list. It's a newer name than most of the historic tabernas here, but the award and the cooking both back it up. **Order:** - undefined - undefined - undefined ### 9. Angelita *Villalón brothers' wine bar on the World's 50 Best Bars list* - **Neighbourhood:** Chueca - **Address:** C. de la Reina, 4, 28004 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€ - **Distinction:** Repsol Recomendado - **Website:** https://madrid-angelita.es/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/angelita Angelita is a two-storey wine bar, cocktail bar and restaurant in Chueca, the family project of brothers David and Mario Villalón, who opened it in 2016 and run both the bar and the kitchen. It holds a Repsol Recomendado and, more unusually for a tapas address, a run of international bar recognition: it placed on the World's 50 Best Bars extended list in 2024 and 2025, and on the inaugural Europe's 50 Best Bars list in 2026. The kitchen is seasonal and produce-led, much of it grown in the family's own garden, with dishes like pisto and a bull's tail stew reworked as cannelloni. gastroactitud calls out the terrina de campaña by name. **Order:** - undefined - undefined > "terrina de campaña" — gastroactitud ### 10. Taberna & Media *Budget-friendly Retiro taberna proud of its bravas* - **Neighbourhood:** Ibiza - **Address:** C. Lope de Rueda 30, 28009 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€ - **Distinction:** Repsol Recomendado - **Website:** https://www.tabernaymedia.com - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/taberna-media Taberna & Media sits on Calle de Lope de Rueda in the Ibiza barrio, on the east side of the Retiro park, and it bills itself as more than a taberna: a place built to revive the habit of tapas with a good glass of wine in a cosy room. It's chef José Luis Martínez's family project. It holds a Repsol Recomendado. The house is proud of its patatas bravas, which it says won a bravas championship in 2020, and a meal runs €26 to €50 a head. esMadrid describes the cooking simply as simple and traditional cuisine, which is about the point. **Order:** - undefined > "simple and traditional cuisine" — esMadrid ### 11. Hevia *Serrano gastrobar and delicatessen since 1964* - **Neighbourhood:** Castellana - **Address:** Calle de Serrano, 118, 28006, Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€€ - **Website:** https://heviamadrid.com - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/hevia Hevia has stood on Calle de Serrano in Salamanca since 1964, founded by Pepe Hevia and Elena Arbizu and an early Madrid gastrobar. Three generations on, the founding family still runs it. The kitchen built its name on gourmet delicatessen, canapés and quality tapas, with a smoked-fish salad and callos among the signatures, and there's a terrace for slower afternoons. esMadrid calls it a well-established restaurant in Barrio de Salamanca, which undersells six decades of history a little, but the point stands: this is a Salamanca classic that hasn't needed to chase trends. **Order:** - undefined - undefined > "well-established restaurant in Barrio de Salamanca" — esMadrid ### 12. El Anciano Rey de los Vinos *Centenario tavern by the Royal Palace since 1909* - **Neighbourhood:** Palacio - **Address:** Calle Bailén 19, 28013 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€ - **Website:** http://elancianoreydelosvinos.es/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/el-anciano-rey-de-los-vinos El Anciano Rey de los Vinos sits on Calle Bailén in Palacio, the stretch of central Madrid wrapped around the Royal Palace, and it dates to 1909. It's on the Ayuntamiento de Madrid's Comercios Centenarios register and holds the Comunidad de Madrid's Establecimiento Centenario designation. The cooking is traditional Madrid tavern fare served as tapas and sharing plates, with a bar inside and a terrace outside that looks out over Palacio. It closes on Tuesdays. ### 13. Melo's *Galician raciones bar and the one-kilo Zapatilla, since 1979* - **Neighbourhood:** Lavapiés - **Address:** Calle de Ave María, 44, 28012 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** € - **Website:** https://www.barmelos.com/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/melos Bar Melo's opened in Lavapiés in 1979, founded by Ramón and Encarni. It closed briefly in 2020 and reopened in 2021 under Ignacio Revuelta and Rafael Riqueni, and added a second location in Moncloa in 2023. The cooking is home-style Galician tapas and raciones, and the two signatures are the croquetones de lacón and La Zapatilla, a one-kilo sandwich of lacón and melted cheese, alongside empanadas and pimientos de Padrón. esMadrid calls out the zapatillas by name, describing them as huge slices of Galician bread. The room stays casual and works well for groups. **Order:** - undefined - undefined > "famous for its zapatillas" — esMadrid ### 14. La Perejila *Andalusian-inspired copla taberna in La Latina* - **Neighbourhood:** Palacio - **Address:** Calle de la Cava Baja, 25, 28005 Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/la-perejila La Perejila is a well-known taberna in La Latina, the old Madrid quarter built for Sunday vermut and bar-hopping, named after a popular coplas singer from the early 20th century and built around a tribute to Andalusian folklore, right down to the dishes on the menu. Deep-green walls and flamenco touches set the tone in a small room that fills fast on weekends. The tapas lean Andalusian, mostly traditional Spanish cooking with the occasional modern twist of flavour or texture, the kind of small-plate list built for standing at the bar with a glass of wine rather than settling in for a full sit-down meal. esMadrid describes the offering as Andalusia-inspired tapas, which is about as tidy a summary as the place needs. > "Andalusia-inspired tapas" — esMadrid ### 15. La Musa Latina *Gourmet tapas by day, cocktails by night, Plaza de la Paja* - **Neighbourhood:** Palacio - **Address:** Costanilla San Andres, 12, 28005, Madrid, Spain - **Price:** €€ - **Website:** https://grupolamusa.com/restaurante-musa-latina/ - **Full profile:** https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/la-musa-latina La Musa Latina is the La Latina outpost of Grupo La Musa, the younger sibling of the group's original spot in Malasaña, and it sits right on Plaza de la Paja. By day the kitchen turns gourmet dishes into tapas and portions with an international slant, and the brunch has become a fixture. After dark, the downstairs room shifts into a cocktail-and-music space, and there's a terrace for groups. esMadrid describes it as offering innovative treats made with top-quality ingredients, which tracks with the group's reputation elsewhere in the city. > "innovative treats made with top-quality ingredients" — esMadrid ## Honourable mentions - **[La Dichosa](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/la-dichosa)** (Universidad) — A Conde Duque taberna with updated Spanish and Mediterranean tapas, a black pudding, apple and quail's egg skewer, smoked sardine and homemade croquetas; esMadrid names its draft vermouth and black pudding snack. - **[Aderezo 37](https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/restaurants/aderezo-37)** (Argüelles) — Creative Mediterranean tapas in Argüelles since 2014, run by chef Carmen Chicus with Salvador Jiménez; unbuendiaenmadrid calls out the calamares a la andaluza. ## The Tapas scene in Madrid Madrid's tapas scene splits less by neighbourhood than by generation. The oldest names, Bodega La Ardosa (1892), Casa Labra (1860) and El Anciano Rey de los Vinos (1909), have kept the same format for well over a century: a tavern counter, a short list of classics, vermut or wine on tap. A newer generation, Varro and La Catapa among them, has built the same format around modern technique and picked up real recognition for it, from the Premios Metrópoli to the Academia Madrileña de Gastronomía. In between sits a working middle: family-run tabernas like the Laredo family's own restaurant, wine-and-tapas specialists like Manero and Hevia, and neighbourhood standbys in La Latina and Lavapiés that never needed a rebrand to stay full. ## Know before you go ### 1. Eat at the counter Most of these bars are built around the counter, not the table. You'll get faster service, see the food as it comes out, and can order a couple of dishes at a time rather than committing to a full spread. ### 2. Order in rounds Ask for two or three tapas, eat them, then order more. It's how these kitchens are set up to work, and it keeps every dish coming out hot. ### 3. Some close midweek El Anciano Rey de los Vinos closes on Tuesdays. Check a venue's current hours before you go, especially for the smaller, family-run tabernas on this list. ### 4. The award winners fill up Varro and La Catapa have both picked up real industry awards in the last two years, and Taberna Laredo has built a following among wine professionals. Book ahead where you can. ### 5. The Retiro cluster works as a crawl La Raquetista, Taberna Laredo and Taberna & Media are all in the Ibiza barrio, on the east side of the Retiro park, close enough to hit two or three in one evening. ## Glossary - **Tapa** — A small dish meant to be shared and ordered in multiples rather than eaten alone. - **Ración** — A full-size shared portion of a dish. A media-ración is the half-size version, common on Madrid taberna menus. - **Taberna** — An old-school Spanish tavern, traditionally family-run, built around a short list of classic dishes. - **Vermut** — Fortified, aromatised wine, often poured on tap in traditional bodegas and tied to its own midday drinking hour on weekends. - **Croqueta** — A breaded, deep-fried béchamel fritter, typically filled with jamón, cod or another cured or salted ingredient. - **Solete** — The Guía Repsol's distinction for good, casual, honestly priced places, one tier below its main Sol rating. ## Frequently asked questions ### What's the best historic tapas bar in Madrid? Casa Labra, serving bacalao and its signature soldaditos de pavía since 1860, holds a Repsol Solete and won the Academia Madrileña de Gastronomía's Premio al Plato Castizo in 2023. Bodega La Ardosa, pouring its own vermut since 1892, is the other clear historic pick. ### Where can I get vermut on tap in Madrid? Bodega La Ardosa in Universidad has poured its own vermut recipe from a dedicated tap since 1892. ### What's the best tapas bar near the Retiro? La Raquetista, Taberna Laredo and Taberna & Media all sit within the Ibiza and Niño Jesús neighbourhoods on the park's eastern edge, close enough to visit more than one in a night. ### Which Madrid tapas bar has won a recent award? Varro won Best Tapas Bar at the 2024 Premios Metrópoli. La Catapa won Best Bar/Taberna at the Academia Madrileña de Gastronomía in 2025, and Taberna Laredo's Miguel Laredo won Sala/Sumiller honours at the 2025 Premios Gastronómicos de Madrid. ### Where can I get tapas with a good cocktail list in Madrid? Angelita in Chueca runs a wine and cocktail bar alongside its kitchen, and it has placed on the World's 50 Best Bars extended list in both 2024 and 2025. ### What is a Repsol Solete, and which venues on this list have one? The Solete is the Guía Repsol's distinction for good, casual, honestly priced spots, one tier below its main Sol rating. Casa Labra, Manero and Bodegas Rosell all hold one. ### Where's a good Galician tapas bar in Madrid? Melo's in Lavapiés has served Galician raciones since 1979, known for its croquetones de lacón and the one-kilo Zapatilla sandwich. ## About the author **Justin Mota** — Guidavera founder Justin Mota is the founder of Guidavera. He has lived in Spain for over 10 years and runs a native AI agency alongside building this platform. Food has always been the way Justin connects with friends, and Guidavera started as the list he kept sending to everyone visiting Barcelona. He built it for himself and his friends first, and now hopes it can transform the way people discover great food experiences everywhere. More: https://guidavera.com/about --- This guide is the canonical machine-readable version of https://guidavera.com/spain/madrid/best-tapas. 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