Options include ACID Café, Toma, and Ambu Coffee Lab. Closing times vary by day, so check each café’s hours before heading out.
ACID Café
ACID's original cafe is on Calle de la Verónica, between Las Letras and Antón Martín, a short walk from the Prado. Concrete, metal and wood frame a compact bar and pastry case. Guest-roaster coffee and baking are the reasons to come; seating is limited. ACID also has a bakehouse on Magdalena and a shop on Barquillo, each mapped below.
ACID Café · Las Letras / Antón Martín
The coffee identity is firmly Nordic-leaning, but it never feels frozen in one moment. ACID's current guest-roaster mix has featured names such as Koppi, Three Marks, Coffee Collective, April, Quo, and Swerl, which keeps the bar feeling current without turning the menu into a novelty machine. Cups tend to lean toward clarity, acidity, and lighter roast structure, while the retail shelf gives the room a second life for anyone who wants to leave with beans rather than just a receipt. If you like checking who is on bar this month, ACID remains one of Madrid's more rewarding places to do that.
Toma Café 1 is now one of several Toma cafes in Madrid, but the Palma 49 address should anchor a first visit. It sits on Calle de la Palma in Malasaña, a central Madrid neighbourhood of bars, vintage shops, and side-street foot traffic north of Gran Vía. The cafe has high ceilings, white-tiled walls, hanging plants, small tables, and a counter where the barista work stays in view. The laptop restrictions leave its small tables for conversation and coffee.
Toma · Malasaña
Toma roasts its own coffee and keeps the Palma 49 menu broad enough to suit both quick espresso and slower filter. The retail shelf runs through beans from El Salvador, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, and Uganda, so the bar has more depth than a standard cafe shelf. Ask what is on batch brew or filter before falling back on a flat white.
AMBU Pez is the original cafe, opened in October 2021 on Calle del Pez in Malasaña, north of Gran Vía. The compact room serves espresso, filter and breakfast, with retail beans to take home. It is one of three cafes on AMBU's current branch list, alongside Núñez de Balboa and Las Huertas.
Ambu Coffee Lab · Malasaña
AMBU serves espresso, flat whites, batch brew, filter, cold brew and decaf. Ask which beans are available for your preferred method: the choice changes, and a filter order gives more time to discuss it than a takeaway milk drink. The wider business also runs Coffee School workshops in espresso, filter and sensory skills.
DABOV works best when you approach it as a compact coffee showroom on Calle de Santa Isabel, a short walk from Antón Martín and the museum edge, rather than as another Lavapiés brunch stop. The room is small, most of the visual weight sits with the bar and the retail coffee, and the visit quickly narrows your attention toward what is being brewed. That focus is the reason to come. In a part of Madrid with plenty of broader cafe options, DABOV is one of the clearer places for a deliberate cup and a conversation about beans.
DABOV Specialty Coffee · Lavapiés / Antón Martín
The Madrid outpost serves Bulgarian roaster DABOV's coffees as espresso and brewed coffee, with different origins and decaf available. Ask which beans suit your preferred method before ordering a V60 or a milk drink. The retail bags let you take the same roasting programme home.
Faraday is a record shop and cafe on Calle de San Lucas, near Chueca and Salesas in central Madrid. Vinyl shelves, vintage furniture and small objects share the room with the coffee counter. It suits a drink while browsing records or reading; the limited food offer makes it a different stop from the area's brunch cafes.
Faraday · Justicia / Chueca
Toma-roasted coffee supplies the espresso bar, with filter and cold coffee adding alternatives to milk drinks. Ask what is brewing before ordering, particularly if you want a black coffee to drink while browsing. The retail focus is records and objects, so this is primarily a cafe visit rather than a large selection of coffee beans to shop.
HanSo has two central Madrid cafes. The original sits at Calle Pez and Corredera Baja de San Pablo in Malasaña, with tiled walls, concrete floors and a communal table. HanSo Café 2 is on Costanilla de los Ángeles near Ópera and has a larger dining room. Both combine specialty coffee with breakfast and brunch.
HanSo Café · Malasaña / Ópera
Espresso and milk drinks sit alongside filter and cold brew, with guest roasters changing over time. Ask which beans are on the bar rather than expecting a fixed roaster list. Matcha provides another option for mixed groups. Coffee can be a short counter order even when other tables are staying for brunch.
Misión near Plaza de España pairs Hola Coffee on bar with an adjoining bakehouse and a proper breakfast menu. The sunk-in Modbar keeps the coffee visible, while pastries and brunch make it useful for more than a quick cortado.
Misión Café · Conde Duque
Espresso, milk drinks, house filter, Kalita pour-over, iced coffee and espresso tonic sit alongside breakfast. Hola supplies the beans. The Modbar keeps most of the espresso equipment below the counter, opening the view of preparation; filter offers a slower order if you have time with your meal.
Natif Coffee & Kitchen is on Calle de Santa Teresa in Justicia, near Alonso Martínez. Espresso, batch brew and manual filter accompany a breakfast and brunch menu, with pastry supplied by its separate bakery on Francisco de Rojas in Chamberí. Come for a meal with coffee; the compact room can fill at weekends.
Natif Coffee & Kitchen · Justicia
Espresso, batch brew, manual filter and flat whites give coffee drinkers several choices beside brunch. House chai and matcha provide alternatives. Ask what is on filter before ordering your food, particularly if you want to taste the coffee on its own rather than in a milk drink.
Naji is a small cafe on Calle del Cardenal Cisneros in Chamberí, north of central Madrid near Quevedo metro. Its pistachio latte, served hot or iced, draws on founder Naji's Iraqi background. Coffee, pistachio financiers and cheesecake give the counter a specific menu to explore, with only a few places to sit.
Naji Specialty Coffee · Trafalgar
Espresso, cappuccino, flat whites and filter sit alongside the signature pistachio drinks. Choose a plain coffee to taste the current beans, or the pistachio latte for the cafe's best-known recipe. The two orders offer different visits: one focuses on the coffee itself, the other on a sweet, nut-based milk drink.
Masamune Coffee sits on Calle de la Palma, at the Chueca edge of Malasaña, where central Madrid shifts from daytime shopping into bars and late street traffic. The room is compact but set up for sitting: counter ordering, inside tables, cakes near the bar, and a calm modern look that keeps the brunch crowd from swallowing the coffee. Masamune is strongest when you want a proper breakfast without giving up pour-over, batch brew, or a well-made flat white.
Masamune Coffee · Malasaña
The coffee menu has more range than the average brunch room. Espresso, cortado, flat white, batch brew, and pour-over sit alongside matcha, chai, and mocha, while the roaster list changes enough to make origin and process part of the visit. The filter price and brunch setting mean this is not Madrid's leanest tasting-bar stop; it is better for a careful drink inside a fuller breakfast order.
