Nubra, at Calle de la Alameda, 10 in Madrid’s Barrio de las Letras, deserves a place in the itinerary alongside the nearby Prado and CaixaForum. This small café serves espresso and filter coffee from a business that roasts in Madrid. With so much art nearby, it would be easy to treat coffee as an interval; Nubra is a reason to give it a little more attention.
Filter has a strong claim on your order: co-founder Valentina Cartechini won the Spanish Brewers Cup in 2026. She also co-owns Ambu, a separate café business with several Madrid locations. At Nubra’s Alameda café, the appeal is firmly coffee-led, with both the roasting and brewing sides of the craft behind it.
The roaster’s range leaves room for convention and experiment. Its online catalogue includes washed and natural coffees alongside more adventurous fermentations. Colombia Tatama, a washed Castillo/Caturra recommended for espresso, shares that catalogue with Colombia UBA, whose production involves 72 hours of controlled microbial fermentation before washing. There is quite a distance between those two recipes, even though both coffees come from Risaralda. These are examples of Nubra’s beans sold online, rather than a fixed choice of drinks at the café, but they show the scope of its interests without reducing the business to its most experimental lots.
The room is small and seating is limited, so this is an appealing stop between museums rather than somewhere to count on a long, settled break. There is a pleasing change of scale in moving from a gallery to a café like this—from looking closely at a painting to paying a little more attention to a cup.
